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About Me

Xraydusa is just one of the hats worn by producer, songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Uncle Ray Wilcox. Guitar slinger and vocalist for !Tang, the 9 piece "unstoppable funk machine" (Jane Gahnal, SF Examiner), drummer/vocalist for SF noise pop pioneers ZIRCUS, and rapper/ producer for Extinguisher are just a few more lids keeping his dome tight. Xraydusa is always producing relevant and precise beats, songs, and sound scapes, utilizing a variety of electronic and acoustic instruments, moods, and musical styles. No sound is to small, no beat is to phat. Xraydusa sees right thrusya.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/20/2005
Band Website: pacificsoulrecords.com
Band Members:Xraydusa is a one man hit making machine. He plays guitar, drums, bass, keyboard, samples, turntables, percussion, harmonica, electric sitar, flute and finger cymbols. He can create a wall of sound in his studio, with live horns and strings just a few digits away.
Influences:Sly & the Family Stone, The Pretenders, The Lord Slumber, Sugarhill Gang, Kiss, Bugs Bunny, The Specials, The Kinks, Bowie, The Who, James Brown, Arthur Lee & Love, A Tribe Called Quest, The Beach Boys, Lee Dorsey, Prince, Queen, Yes, Beck.
Sounds Like:Xraydusa sounds like the Dust Brothers, Lee "Scratch"Perry, Portishead, Jurrasic 5, Tricky, DJ Z-Trip, The Bomb Squad, and MC Honkey. An unhinged and fierce psychedelic/funk horror-show. Uncle Ray sounds like Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, Spearhead, Beck, Guided by Voices, Ween, Maxwell Spectre and Kiss. It's sugar-coated,power, indi pop & soul.
Record Label: Pacific Soul Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Rock and Roll Camp

I am so lucky. When the summer comes, my job at the JCCSF is to run ROCK CAMP. For one week I get to talk to kids about rock and roll, and let thier freak flags fly. ...
Posted by xraydusa on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:28:00 PST

Gene Simmons reality show/ KISS RULES

So I want to write about music beacause I know entirely to much unimportant information about it and the pop culture world it thrives in. Tonight I happened to come across Kiss's Bass Player's TV show...
Posted by xraydusa on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:54:00 PST

The SPECIALS, 1979

Yea, I'm not a blogger. Wouldn't have been until I saw this video (that I've never seen) by one of my ALL TIME FAVEorite bands, THE SPECIALS. "A Message to You Rudi" , a video from the first song off ...
Posted by xraydusa on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:37:00 PST