Member Since: 2/12/2008
Band Website: kevinebrown
Band Members: Myself, & my 7 other personalities. When I first blundered around with this page, I thought I'd switch tracks on a regular basis, & after posting 10 songs, I decided that these 6 are a fair cross section of what I delve into. I suppose I should have my music catalog published & copyrighted one of these years, right now it's semi-technically "public domain". The thought of an 11 year old reacting to a song of mine 200 years from now, learning it, and eventually Really doing something for guitar is a cool notion. On the other hand, if some money grubbing beast wants to sue me for playing my own music across the future years, guess who's going to play them better in court. (HA!)((We paranoids are forced to think of everything!)) The sound quality on 'War Jaw"(84), & "Celestial Mass"(77) aren't so hot, due both to their age, & recording techniques, although it was about offsetting the solo guitar pieces. There have been a few questions about available music for sale, my hands are tied right now, in the future hopefully inexpensively! I digitalized 90 something tracks from tape when I was able to, a few that banged around in between 20-46 minutes, which isn't going to fly on Myspace! Many of my fave guitar pieces & general wierdnesses couldn't fit because of restrictions, it makes sense to not slow down procedings with songs that forget when they end! I appreciate the feedback, comments & insults are always welcome, the insults will take even longer to reply to! (I'm a total cro-mag with Email!)
Influences: I learned a little from everyone. Could've been Ritchie Blackmore that said something like, steal from everyone and try to do your own thing with the heists. Other than a guitar chord book, I'm self taught. A good lesson for me was tuning my guitar to the harmonics from "Roundabout", I knew I was in key then. Another tune from the Fragile LP that I puttered around with alot then was "Heart of the Sunrise". Acoustically, Jimmy Page helped me along also. Pink Floyd in Chicago on father's day in 77 was one of the best shows I'll ever see, although I'd already been a fan for a few years. Neil Young musically is a bit of a father figure to me. Larry Coryell stunned me the 1st time I heard him, like Yngwie Malmsteen did 10 years later. My 1st guitar hero was Jimi Hendrix. I saw Monterey Pop on PBS as a child, & was just blown over from everything he did with Wild Thing! Vocally, I found myself being able to sing along with the songs from "Brain Salad Surgery" when I was around 14, so Greg Lake was a direct influence. Harmonies are what I'm best at, growing up hearing the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Crosby Stills Nash & Young along with Yes gave me a fair sense of a layered vocal capabilty. One of my favorite vocalists is Annie Haslam, she's got this perfect pitch & purity in her voice & almost echoes back to medival times ! She's deaf in one of her ears, & maybe that's why she's so pitch sensitive. I once recorded a native brazilian guitar duet from the tonight show in the mid 70's with a little portable cassette player, & for years didn't know what this one song was. There was an amazing keyboard player in a band at a bar in Indiana, & I ran the melody of the middle of the tune by her, & she informed me that it's Chopin's "Fantasai Impromptu, opus 66." Also Mussorsky & Liszt are of the old school composers that I've listened to, although I'm not an expert in the Classical realm whatsoever. ( Something Else), I'd recommend that teenagers nowadays try to avoid substance abuse, although no one can tell us what to, it just complicates everything. I've been a nicotine addict off & on for years (cigs ARE a drug), & to this day I'm sure my lungs aren't in the pink. Some of the legal additives are the worst for us. In a different time, LSD, Mescaline, & Shrooms were Enlightening to me. The Marijuana laws should be changed, stoners aren't violent thugs that should be locked away. Myself, I'd rather chew on a loaded brownie than smoke anymore, there are many of us who are aware of many benefits of hemp. One example is-think of all the trees that could be saved if paper was made from hemp fibers, which provide a better form of paper anyway. Cocaine is about as wastefull as it gets, & is very unfair to women. That was my slight mini-speech! ---Music to me is a global language, & we find our own voice in the multitudes somewhere. My family influences aren't very musical, there was a piano with a couple of dead keys in a room where I camped out in when I was young at one of my grandparent's houses-I used to make strange noises with it with all the foot pedals in action. I've always been a space cadet! My dad's side of the family has always had a goofy friendliness about them (mom's side were always more serious about their laughs!) Looking across the years it nearly seems that music picked me, more than I went after it!? There's times I've heard these recordings & been affected in different states, there's something comical at some point in most of these ideas. I must've set up large perimeters to navigate the areas & borders of reality & absurdities! I don't read music, on the other hand I know what keys all these are in. I tried taking music theory years ago at a community college in northern Illinois, & the teacher told me that 4 whole steps together couldn't happen. (In theory apparently) I'd heard the Beatles, Yes, King Crimson, & Genesis all do the the 4 step progression, so I dropped the class. And I have a few 4 whole steps together too, so There! Anyway, if any of you want to download any of this, feel free to & enjoy! (The 4 guitar pieces are downloadable, "War Jaw" & "Celestial Mass" you have to hang out here to hear!) Many thanks to the wiz kid Mike Romano III for helping me get this page rolling, I wouldn't have had a clue groping around with this on my own. What can I say, after all this time I finally emerged from my hermit cave & have my 1st home computer! I'd been in my own world, or planet Kevin for quite some time, & this Myspace "out of laboratory experiment" is a new experience, & I'm hearing great new music all the time! There's too much happening to keep track of, at least I'm getting more of a clue now. Considering all of that, If you stop by & listen & enjoy, That's about the best I could do these days. Anyone who may be able to pull strings, I'd like to do a detailed perpectual musical tour of Europe that would begin in British Columbia for awhile! (That would be a Great current influence)((Of course, Alaska around then, I have to play somewhere in North America that month!!))
Sounds Like: This!!!, I can describe my instrumental arrangements as music without boundries of countries or centuries.
Record Label: Ocean Pyramid Tent Spikes
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