Member Since: 12/3/2007
Band Members: Leopold da Motto (nom de plume for this anonymous artist)
Influences: Some of the Top Eight are bands I'd seen live and would recommend.I'll try to list influences in alphabetical order as well as favorite records of theirs.A: Apple, Fiona- Tidal; Apocolyptica (four cellos); Amos, Tori (early)
B: Beatles- Yesterday and Today (part Help and part Rubber Soul); Black Sabbath- Sabotage; Beastie Boys- Check Your Head; Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
C: Cocteau Twins- everything of they ever made; Cure, The- everything except The Top; Coltrane, John; Ornett Coleman; Cirque du Soleil
D: Drake, Nick- Five Leaves Left/Pink Moon; Davis, Miles- Bitches Brew, Sketches of Spain; Dead Can Dance
E: Evens, The- The Evens Get Evens; Eisley- Room Noises, Combinations
F: Feist; Fugazi- Repeater, In on the Kill Taker, Arguement, End Hits, Red Medicine; Fruciante, John
G: G-Love and Special Sauce- It's all good.
H: Hawkins, Coleman- All the Things You Are
I: Iron and Wine
J: Jane's Addiction- Ritual de lo Habitual, also the EP
K: Komeda- The Genius of Komeda; Kinks, The- early stuff
L: Love and Rockets- Earth, Sun, Moon; Love Jones, The; Luvbeat
M: Morphine- Good; Mars Volta; Mr. Bungle (their 1st CDs); Aimee Mann;Van Morrison; Mono; My Bloody Valentine (where have they been all my life?!)
N: Nixon, Mojo
O: Ornett Coleman
P: Portishead- Dummy
Q: Quincy Jones
R: Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Majick, Uplift Mo-fo Party Plan;
Rush- Caress of Steel, 2112, Farewell to Kings
S: Elliot Smith; Scorpions- Lonesome Crow, In Trance, Fly to the Rainbow
T: Turin Brakes; Thelonius Monk
U: Uli Roth
V: Vega, Suzanne- all her CDs; Vlad Drac (aka Mike Patton)
W: Williams, Saul- saw him live, it's all good; Rufus Wainwright
X: X (the band)
Y: Yoko Ono
Z: Frank Zappa; John Zorn- Naked City
Sounds Like: A lyric/melody-driven mumbler with some other plucking catgut. Alas, the musicians you hear are one in the same. Rarely do I record guitar and vocal tracks independent of one another. I feel performing a song is not unlike hewing an ice sculpture. The air being like the ice. Like the block of ice, only a memory of the song will remain. Whilst sculpting, I pick at measures, yes, they are picked, and my breath smooths spots. To be a real-time bard: the aspiration of this Leopold da Motto.
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Unsigned