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Leaping Boy

About Me

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I started playing guitar in the summer of 2005. I heard a friend (Big Mac AKA Six Pac Mac) playing some rage against the machine riffs on our acoustic guitar and had to learn it :D. Since then I've been playing a lot of guitar. In the beginning of 2006 (I think) I got cubase and started making stuff on the computer. I will keep doing this until I can't any more for sure!

The leaning tower of pizza is still growing! haha :D

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/01/2008
Band Members: Me
Influences: Aphex Twin
Arcade Fire
Beck
Björk
Bloc Party
Bob Dylan
Brian Eno
Dexter Gordon
Frank Zappa
Iggy Pop
Infected Mushroom
Jimi Hendrix
John Coltrane
John Lee Hooker
Johnny Cash
Joy Division
Neil Young
Nina Simone
Pink Floyd
Prodigy
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Grateful Dead
The Libertines
Thelonious Monk
The Mars Volta
The Strokes
The White Stripes
Tv On The Radio
Wolf Parade
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

A lot more influences obviously but these are my favorites and the ones most prevalent in my music I think (the ones which have transformed me :D). A lot of hip hop influences too in some stuff, but I don't really know who the producers have been (their work is what would be noticeable). Some very inspirational artists though are (or have been):

2Pac
A Tribe Called Quest
Blackalicious
Common
Cypress Hill
Da Bush Babees
De La Soul
Dr. Dre
Eminem
Fugees
Ken Ring
Mos Def
Proof
Talib Kweli
The Roots
Timbuktu

Lately I've been checking out a lot of classical music and I really seem to enjoy Chopin and Tchaikovsky especially. Some classical music feels cluttered with too many notes for me though so it becomes redundant. I guess I didn't realize I would come back to the music which was in one of my favorite movies as a kid, Fantasia...... Debussy is amazing too!

Oh and I suspect video game music/sounds have been a big influence! :D

Of course all the great people on here!
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Margaritaville

Let me start out by saying I love South Park :D. Sometimes though it seems far too obvious that the four beloved kids just become devices from which Matt and Trey spout their political views, and I pr...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:51:00 GMT

Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myzfmNgreAI Lately I've been working really hard with trying to learn to play the piano. This is my favorite thing to play so far, so I will share it here!...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:36:00 GMT

Round About Midnight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmeNsmQaFw :)
Posted by on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:30:00 GMT

Horrible

I've been thinking a lot about global economics and so on lately. In 1989 the richest 20% of the world recieved 82.7% of the global income and the poorest 20% recieved 1.2%... Proponents of neoliberal...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:33:00 GMT

If I was president

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQPpZST_nuo I saw wyclef play this song on the chappelle's show when I was watching some old episodes recently. I really enjoyed it so I wanted to put it he...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:34:00 GMT

Sneaky Squirrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRaedVNbzE0 Hahahaha I love this squirrel, but I think it thinks I'm quite a threat.
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:01:00 GMT

Relevant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97cGGxdi1BQ I came across this 'video' today (ignore the goofy loop of mckenna looking generally retarded)... haha. I am not sure when it is from, probably s...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:45:00 GMT

Capitalism

My problem with ..capitalism.. is that the main driving force tends to be the potential to make more money rather than the potential to do some good.(these two ..potentials.. can of course be the same...
Posted by on Sun, 25 May 2008 05:28:00 GMT

The only thing.

The only thing that should be taboo is complying with taboos...    if that makes sense..?   :D
Posted by on Sun, 25 May 2008 04:33:00 GMT

Guitaring it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_3t2pDrSCU hahaha when I woke up this morning I felt like playing some stuff and recording it.... It's a bit hard to tell what is me and not in the first s...
Posted by on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:03:00 GMT