Member Since: 9/5/2005
Band Website: angelfire.com/music5/sandman
Band Members: Sandman - (unless it says otherwise) All guitars, bass, production, mixing, drum programming, synths, keyboards, vocals
Influences: Guitar: John Petrucci (Dream Theater), Ron Jarzombek (Spastic Ink), Steve Vai, Steve Morse, Joe Satriani, Joey Eppard (3), Mikael Akerfelt (Opeth), Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), Roine Stolt (Flower Kings), Michael Hedges, Mark Engles (Dredg), Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria), Ed Wynne (Ozric Tentacles), Omar Rodriguez Lopez (Mars Volta), Tony Macalpine, Greg Howe, Shawn Lane, Dave Skipper, Devin Townsend, Steve Hillage, James Murphy (Testament), Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Adrian Belew, Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah), Daniel Gildenlow (Pain of Salvation), Jag Tanna (I Mother Earth), Dallas Green and Wade MacNeil (Alexisonfire)
Bass: Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), John Myung (Dream Theater), Dave LaRue, Martin Mendez (Opeth), Jonas Reingold, Billy Sheehan, Jonas Hellborg, Michael Manring, Sean Malone (Gordian Knot), Trey Gunn, Jonas Reingold (Flower Kings)
Synth / Keys: Ed Wynne (Ozric Tentacles), Derek Sherinian, Squarepusher, Jens Johansson, Jordan Rudess, Joie Hinton (Eat Static), Simon Posford (Hallucinogen / Shpongle), Phil Turcio, Kevin Moore (Chroma Key), Edgar Froese (Tangerine Dream), Tomas Bodin (Flower Kings), Miquette Giraudy (Steve Hillage)
Vocals: Russell Allen (Symphony X), Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria), Gavin Hayes (Dredg), James LaBrie (Dream Theater), Ray Wilson (Echolyn), Daniel Gildenlow (Pain of Salvation), Mikael Akerfelt (Opeth), Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), Hasse Froberg & Roine Stolt (Flower Kings), Yogi Lang (RPWL), Devin Townsend, George Pettit and Dallas Green (Alexisonfire), Edwin (early I Mother Earth), Joey Eppard (3)
Composition: Shaking Judy, Sleaper, Violent Marv, Ozric Tentacles, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Art Zoyd, Mike Oldfield, Coheed and Cambria, Dredg, 3, Michael Hedges, Kayo Dot, The Flower Kings, Nodens Ictus, The Mars Volta, The Fall of Troy, Symphony X, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Spock's Beard, On The Virg, Fates Warning, Spiral Architect, I Mother Earth, Alexisonfire, King Crimson, Planet X, Spastic Ink, Mats Morgan Band
Sounds Like: Taking a interstellar train, ambient noises of the night, tripping out on travels to the Orient, being unable to comprehend the amount of knobs and noises one can produce with a single synthesizer, ripped off TV show theme progressions, playing guitar with one hand and violin with the other, experimentation with panning and harmonies, musical tales of bad weather in Montreal, musical interpretations of cosmic disasters, evil programming robots.
Type of Label: None