Member Since: 03/01/2008
Band Website: http://www.freewebs.com/delmorraartes
Band Members: twitinstasis: (otherwise known as the inevitable mr bee): acoustic/electric and slide guitars, mandola, mandolin, dulcimer, balalaika, ukulele, mandolele, auto harp, zither, 5 string banjo, cigar box banjo, bass drone canjo, didgeridu, vocal & sound fx, percussion, drum loops & all that other low-techy modern computerified stuff. Every now and then you may here a vague muttering in the background which could pass for wordifying in an improvised mantra kind of way but sometimes that is just my invisible friend the gliss bliss fairy.
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Influences: when he was a young man, well a child twitinstasis wanted to be Elvis, either that or all of Kiss depending on whose make-up he liked best that day. later he wanted to be a rambling Woody Guthrie but being a vegie the hamburger diet was out & not being a dust-bowl in sight he decided to grow up & be daevid allen instead. were these influences, I don't know. at 13 the blues & dylan & 60's pop-rock progressed into prog rock & rapidly ran away screaming at too many chord changes & po facedly arrived at the jazz fusion clowns of Zappa, Gong & Soft Machine whome he loves to this day. the booming god-like voices of Leonard Cohen & Patti Smith (so who said God was a boy's name) with poetry & music lulled his aching heart to sleep & gave solace to his anger & a burning desire to save the world( he wasn't sure what he was saving it for but there was always a little room in the shed for another little you-never-know-when-it-might-come-in-useful-thing-a-ma-jig).
Tom Waits saw him through many whiskey soaked nights (or precisely 1 as he can't stand the stuff it makes for a maudling drunk) & low-fi'd the hi-brow with strangely cocked eye-brow spock-like into his increduality.Ravi Shankar & John Mclaughlin taught the opposing beauties of musical space & in his own mind sounding like the latter until one day he heard himself & realised that up until this point everything he'd believed was wrong, or at least mistakenly over-optimistic. On the other hand how much of these are influences and how much just music he likes and why does he keep referring to himself as he when he's really an I. Such mysteries of life we are here to fathom & of them all this must be the least. The sound of a stream and waves breaking, birdsong, the distant rush of a motorway, cables blowing in the wind and the windmills of my mind (which has got to be one of the weirdest, meaningless songs that anybody ever thought they understood) oh yes & the wind. These are all influences too. I particularly like playing guitar in a lightning storm, acoustic obviously, after all I'm mad not stupid....don't tell anyone but I quite like Cilla Black too... ssShhh!!!
Sounds Like: rain on a hot tin roof or tinitus at 2 in the morning when nothing can drown it out except the squeaking of fingers on a blackboard or my neighbores gate banging in the wind at 2 in the morning, god i hate that gate.
Record Label: Unsigned