I am an absolute unapologetic music snob. I stick as much in my listening hole as possible!
I also dig FZ, sport eating, booty-ism, absurdity, lounge singers, stoopid tv shows, peace and quiet, long walks on the internet, sproing flabadab, odd meters, and incredibly strange people. I also play a lot of bass guitar, pretend to play six string guitar and love my miss debbie!
I'd like to meet:
I dunno......Interstellar travelers flying through time and space, dimension warp and all that
rhythm, the spirit of Alan Wilson....
Music:
Oh boy.....well......here is just a few. Preferably all at once! FRANK ZAPPA(!), The Mothers of Invention, HERMETO PASCOAL, ALAN "Blind Owl" WILSON, Thelonious Monk, AND NOW ENSEMBLE, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn, CHUCK Z, John Coltrane, The Beatles, Ornette Coleman, The Residents, Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Beach Boys, Kaleidoscope (U.S), BOBBY BRADFORD/JOHN CARTER, Kiss, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Country Joe & The Fish, The Shaggs, Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, James Brown, The Meters, P-Funk, Sly and The Family Stone, Serge Gainsbourg, Os Mutantes, Lord Buckley, Gwendolyn, MOBY GRAPE, Love, Bobby Womack, Herbie Hancock, Eric Dolphy, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Marjorie Fair, Stevie Wonder, Banana Convention, Conlon Nancarrow, the Flaming Lips, Wildman Fischer, Neil Young, The Band, WOODY APLANALP, Nels Cline, Alex Cline, Mike Keneally, Holy Modal Rounders, Dan Leahy, Mel Torme, RICHARD DEMBOWSKI, Mayo Thompson, Chris Darrow, Wilco, Gene Clark, Juana Molina, Marco Awad, April March, Radiohead, Syd Barret,Willie Nelson, Mother Hips, Jayhawks, Beck, The Association, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, Burt Bacharach, William Hung, Air, Mertz and Kertz, Tony Williams Lifetime, Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, Charlie Parker, Trainwreck, Blue Cheer, Tenacious D, Broadcast, Don Preston, Phineas Newborn, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Grateful Dead, Frank Sinatra, Betty Davis, Fiona Apple, Fred Kron, Petra Haden, Black Sabbath, Anthony Braxton,Wilshire, Stuart Pearson, Erik Satie, Fred Frith, Renaldo & the Loaf, Edgard Varese, Pygmy field recordings, Piter U. Caizer-The Wheatgrass Messiah, DeWayne on Drums, Hasselhoff, Prison work songs.......Some Favorite Influential Bassists, (in no particular order) James Jameson, Phil Lesh, Larry "The Mole" Taylor, Dave Holland, Paul McCartney, Richard Davis, Charlie Haden, Ken Forssi, Tom Fowler, Bootsy Collins, Rick Danko, Ron Carter, Mark (Rockette Morton) Boston, Jack Casady, Anthony "TT Boy" Russell, Richard Dembowski, Rusty Allen, Itibere Zwarg, Paul Jackson, Bob Mosley, Paul Chambers, Roy Estrada, Geezer Butler, Larry Graham, Putter Smith, Michael Henderson (Miles era), Carol Kaye, John Paul Jones (and I don't even dig Led Zep too much) Scott Thunes......
Movies:
Beyond The Valley of The Dolls, Boogie Nights, Crumb, Baby Snakes, Borat, American Splendor, Monterey Pop Festival, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory(orig.),Uncle Meat, The World According to Garp, 200 Motels, Spinal Tap, Brothers Keeper, Grateful Dead Movie, Altered States, Easy Rider, Hell House, all the Bruce Lee movies, The Tai Chi Master, Napolean Dynamite, Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen , Twin Falls Idaho, Chuck & Buck, Fletch, Vacation, Delicatessen,The Red Violin, Anchorman, Pans Labyrinth, Unforgivable Blackness:The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson, The Corporation, The Yes Men, Icky Flix, Goodfellas, City Of God, all low budget Kung Fu, Tenacious D, The Complete Masterworks, Anal Security Squad, Documentaries of all shapes and sizes. And, I truly, truly hate going to fucking movie theatres.
Television:
Kill Kill Kill ugly television.....but these shows are good! Looney Tunes, (actually, all old cartoons up to the late 70's), The Simpsons, King of the Hill, South Park, The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart, Star Trek, Good Times, Leave It To Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, What's Happening, The Brady Bunch, anything with Hasselhoff, Real Time with Bill Maher, documentaries, educational crud...... I have a fetish for old T.V. shows and their soundtracks. My Bass playing is HEAVILY influenced by Frank DeVol's incidental music scores for the "Brady's", especially Carol Kaye's exceptional Bass work(true story), and Mo'Nique's opening screams on "Showtime at the Apollo". I also love Televangelists. Have you ever heard of Kerney Thomas? He's as hot as Pastor Bob Tilton was in his heyday. Call in and get your "Prayerkerchief" and get healed right over the phone after making your vow of faith. TV at its best!!!
Books:
Here are some favorite titles and or genres. "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (Tom Wolfe), "On the Road" (Jack Kerouac), "The Real Frank Zappa Book" (FZ), "The Forest People" (Colin Turnbull), "BLIND OWL BLUES" (Rebecca Davis Winters), "Behind the Scenes on The Pegasus Carousel with the Legendary Rock Group LOVE" by Michael Stuart-Ware, "Crumb Family Comics" (R. Crumb & Fam.), "Miles" (Miles Davis & Quincy Troupe), "Music Is My Mistress" (Duke Ellington) art books from Salvador Dali or M.C. Escher, any music history books, "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People" (Lenny Bruce), Big Book,12 & 12.....autobiographies, biographies.... I love to read the same books over and over.
Heroes:
Free Jazz, Stang Cockrum, Crush Brushford, Ferlin Chesknuckles, Brick Pachulski.
