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Jesse

I can't relate to any power structure, where ego is the driving energy

About Me

Who am I? I'm a musician, an artist, a student, a writer, and an all around boring guy.If your curious and want to hear my music, click here , I have a few songs I have worked on uploaded. Currently I am going to Columbia Gorge Community College and I'm taking classes in Math, Engrish, and Geology(which I am considering majoring in). I am interested in a lot of different things and tend to talk a lot.

Rick Wright; Gone to the Great Gig in the Sky

Rest in Peace 1943-2008

My Interests

I am interested in being interested.

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet my musical heroes, especially David Gilmour, Mikael Ã…kerfeldt , Terje Rypdal, Robert Fripp, Steven Wilson, Steve Hackett, Rush (yes the whole band), Andrew Latimer, Buckethead Les Paul, and Jimmy Page. I would also like to meet anyone who is into anything interesting I guess. It would be nice to meet like minded individuals and other musicians, I am always up for meeting new people (especially if your up for some jamming!) so feel free to add me.

Alice in Chains (fav. band):

Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere

Music:

60's & 70's rock: Ten Years After, Grand Funk Railroad, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Andromeda, Taste, Cream, The Beatles, Santana, Joe Cocker, Free, Beck Bogert & Appice ,Iron Butterfly, The Who, Fantasy, Argent, Canned Heat, Traffic, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Stooges, MC5, Stretch, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, The Attack, Led Zeppelin, Mountian, Blind Faith, Keith Relf, Creedence Clear Water Revival, Deep Purple, The Yardbirds, Country Joe and the Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 13th Floor Elevators, Blue Oyster Cult, Heart, Peter Frampton, Rory Gallagher, UFO, T. Rex, Robin Trower, Budgie, The Dirty Mac, The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, Ted Nugent, Derek and the Dominoes, Blind Faith, Scorpions, The Blues Project, Toad, Birth Control, etc.

Progressive/Space Rock: Pink Floyd, Tool, Porcupine Tree, Rush, King Crimson, Opeth, Van Der Graaf Generator, The Nice, Providence, The Moody Blues, Kansas, Forgiener, Radiohead, Guthrie Govan, Genesis, Focus, Jethro Tull, Hawkwind, Gentle Giant, Spooky Tooth, Buckethead, Can, Camel, Atomic Rooster(early), Emerson Lake and Palmer (some), Frank Zappa, U.K., Home, Wishbone Ash, Sugarloaf, Dream Theater, Caravan, A Perfect Circle, Renaissance (early), Eloy, anything Steve Hackett does, David Gilmour, Braintoy, Illusion, Fantasy, Dear Mr. Time, Khan, Space Opera, East of Eden, Hatfield and the North, Egg, Colosseum, Lucifer's Friend, Dust, Ramases, Greenslade, Guru Guru, Neu!, Novalis, Premiata Formeria Marconi, etc.

Fusion: The Soft Machine, Graham Bond Quartet, Terje Rypdal, Jim Pepper, Nucleus, Return to Forever, Raashan Roland Kirk, Miles Davis, Gabor Szabo, Chick Corea, Machine and the Synergetic Nuts, Tsuneo Imahori, Gong, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Eleventh House, Lary Coryell, The Free Spirits, Lee Ritenour, Barret Martin, Weather Report, Gary Boyle, Billy Cobham,etc.

Gunge/alternative: Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Days of the New, Cracker, Candlebox, Green River, The Melvins, Incubus, Mudhoney, Mad Season, Temple of the Dog, Pond, Stone Temple Pilots, The Cure, The White Stripes, Violent Femmes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumkins, Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, The Reconteurs, The Blackouts, Driveblind, John Butler Trio, Coffin Break, Hater, Collective Soul, Peter Murphy, Blind Melon, Whitestarr, The Wellwater Conspiracy, Malfunkshun, Brad, Gruntruck, etc.

Hard Rock/Metal/Industrial: Black Sabbath, Seether, Shinedown, U.P.O., Iron Maiden, Quartz, Metallica, Sir Lord Baltimore, System of a Down, Staind, Serj Tankian, Chevelle, Mudvayne, ISIS, Stonesour, Black Light Burns, Rammstien, Meshuggah, Velvet Revolver, Mercy Fall, Gravity Kills, Celldweller, Nine Inch Nails, Mastodon, not many new bands

Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Johnny Lee Hooker, Albert King, Freddie King, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, John Mayer, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, James Cotton, T-Bone Walker, Bo Diddly, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, Jimy Reed, Leadbelly, J.J. Cale, J.J. Grey and Mofro, etc.

Jazz: John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Duke Ellington, Louie Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Toots Thielemans, Pat Metheny, this list could go on for ever really.

Classical/traditional: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Fransisco Tarrega, Isaac Albeniz, Andreas Segovia, Paco De Lucia, John Williams, Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, and many more; those are just my top favs. AS LONG AS ITS NOT WAGNER I WONT COMPLAIN!
Folk: Nick Drake, Roy Harper, Jake Holmes, Richie Havens, Phil Ochs, and an occasional bit of Bob Dylan.

Electronic/Krautrock: Tangerine Dream, Bo Hansson, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Ryoksopp, Brian Eno, Popol Vuh, etc.


"I've been wearing the same underwear since 87' and I'm damn proud of it" - Layne Staley

Movies:


Akira, The Duelists, The Crow, O Brother Where Art Thou, Gladiator, Seraphim Falls, Spinal Tap, Rob Roy, Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, Metropolis, Jin Roh, Princes Mononoke, The Illusionist, Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children, Steam Boy, Castle in the Sky, Howls Moving Castle, Spriggan, Whisper of the Heart, The Sum of all Fears, The Count of Monte Cristo, Man on the Train, My Neighbor Totoro, One Mans Hero, The Four Feathers, The Blues Brothers, Blades of Glory, The 13th warrior, Master and Commander, Dune, The Lord of the Rings, Saints and Soldiers, The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth, Cowboy bebop the movie, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, Fist Full of Dollars, There Will Be Blood, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Collateral, Kingdom of heaven, The Matrix, The Hunt for Red October, The Patriot, Brave Heart, K15 The Widow Maker, Memories, Das Boot, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Down Fall, The Deer Hunter, Blazing Saddles, SpaceBalls, Revenge of the Nerds, History of the World, The Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, The Score, Crimson Rivers, Life is Beautiful, Empire of the Wolves, Jeremiah Johnson, American Gangster, Cinderella Man, 3:10 to Yuma, Dr. Strangelove, V for Vendetta, Memoirs of a Geisha, Porco Rosso, All the Knigs Men, The Shawshank Redemption, The Great Dictator, Micheal Clayton, The Missson, The Untouchables, Zatoichi, Austin Powers, Anchorman, Borat, The Man Who Cried, Colateral, Eastern Promises, Young Guns 2, Hotel Rwanda, The Lady Killers, Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Talledega Nights, Schindlers List, The Last of the Mohicans, Unforgiven, First Blood, Porky's, Amadeus, Excalibur, Ghandi, Highlander, there are so many good movies, even more bad ones!

Television:

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Scrubs, Robot Chicken, Metalocalypse, Family Guy, and a ton of anime that for the sake the of the reader I refuse to mention, trust me the list is very long.

Books:

Shogun, Wolves of the Dawn, Dune, Beyond Good and Evil, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Return of the King, The Two Towers, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Eaters of the Dead, The Stars Like Dust, Alls Quite on the Western Front, The Call of the Wild, The Wall, The Three Musketeers, Rabble in Arms......... alot of Fantasy, Historical Fiction, and Scifi. MyGen Profile Generator

Heroes:

"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it." - Frank Zappa

In no particular order: David Gilmour, Frank Zappa, William Wallace, Salvador Allende, Nikola Tesla, Vercingetorix, Nick Drake, Fransisco Tarrega, Rob Roy, J.R.R Tolkein, 17th Dali Lama, James J. Braddock, Alaric (the first), John Locke, Micheal Collins, Stephen Hawking, Robert Moog, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstien, Siddhartha Gautama, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannibal Barca, Leaysu Tokugawa, Marc Chagall, Admiral Yi Sun sin, Heron, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vassili Zaitsev, Salvador Dali, T.E. Lawrence, Socrates, Lt. Stephen Decatur, George Orwell. I admire great thinkers, artists, inventors, people who are willing to stand up for those who are less fortunate, and those who try to believe in the impossible.oh can't forget Dictator Mario :)

My Blog

practice repetoire

I figured that other than just practicing scales and such on the guitar that it is even more essential to practice certian songs in order to learn better. As kinda a guide to any one else who plays he...
Posted by Jesse on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:25:00 PST

my guitar gear

guitar:2006 Ibanez SDXQM custom pickups & setup 2007 Gretsch Electromatic hollow bodyCustom Strat. ala David Gilmour Black Strat. look Amps:Peavey Detla Blues 210Squire peice of shitEffects:Ibanez...
Posted by Jesse on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:00:00 PST

Rush..... need I say more?

I saw Rush last night one of the best concerts I have ever been too.  Great music, really funny. They played a massive set list (listed below). But it was cold as hell lol."Limelight""Digital Man...
Posted by Jesse on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:58:00 PST

LOL at Bill O’Reilly

man I love the "internets"...
Posted by Jesse on Thu, 15 May 2008 10:36:00 PST

Brilliance in Dispair

A fading echo, cast unthoughtfully to the ground, leaving behind niegh a word, not even the slightest sound. When our brilliance dies, covered in passions dust. The sword once cleaved s...
Posted by Jesse on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:39:00 PST

funny messenger convo

me and some one else: Louise says: i'm not miserable, see this conversation isnt boring Jesse says: lol Jesse says: its not boring your just trying to push my buttons Louise says: i warned you i'm...
Posted by Jesse on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:23:00 PST

life sucks

She looks across at me with that same unforgiving stare, and for all the love I wanted to see,not the tinniest bit was there.She doesn’t even see me,as if I where a ghost,I look right ...
Posted by Jesse on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:38:00 PST

i wrote a new poem

The poet who so idly writes, and the soul who so idly sits. The flame who so freely burns, while the King so lowely spits. Tattered shade on window pane, whispers gently all to near. While echoes fad...
Posted by Jesse on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:01:00 PST

bands I have seen live (the list!!)

-Alice in Chains-Tool-Rush-Buckethead-That 1 Guy-Velvet Revolver-Seether-Whitestarr-Evan's Blue-Mercy Fall-Driveblind-Candlebox-Porcupine Tree-Tu (Pat and Trey of King Crimson)-J.J. Grey and Mofro-Jam...
Posted by Jesse on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:05:00 PST

From Heaven To hell and Everywhere in between

From Heaven to Hell and Everywhere in Between As I wander into the barren wastes, of bitter decay, the arid air tasts, a shattered soul on window paine, not a bit of humanty does there ...
Posted by Jesse on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:07:00 PST