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Matty La

I am not superstitious. But I am a little stitious.

About Me

I love music and movies and anyone that can make me laugh. I play many instruments and love to create new music and re create old music in my own way.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who wants to make me laugh or listen to music with me.

Music:

The Beatles, Radiohead, The Black Crowes, Ween, Primus, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Built To Spill, Jeremy Brown, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, The Duo, MMW, Wilco, The Decemberists, Anything With Mike Patton, Dr. Dog, Bob Dylan, The Wood Brothers, Blind Melon(yes)Grandaddy and countless others.

Movies:

A lot.

Television:

LOST!!!!

Books:

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut And Of course....Jitterbug Perfume

Heroes:

John, Paul, George, Ringo, My Dad, Mike Patton and Marc Ford.

My Blog

Playing Music With My Dad

I am very fortunate. My father just so happens to do what is my favorite thing in the world to do which is to play and listen to TONS of music. It is not very often when a person gets to share in thei...
Posted by Matty La on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:42:00 PST

Other Matt LaBarber Projects

I just wanted to let anyone who was interested know that I performed with one of the other groups in my top 8. Jeremy Brown's Big Promotion. The Band is a 3-piece that consists of myself on bass, Dan...
Posted by Matty La on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:23:00 PST

The Wood Brothers

This is my new favorite cd. Their song "The Luckiest Man" is on my profile. I've listened to it 1,000 times this month. I saw them live last week. They were better than I could've hoped....
Posted by Matty La on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:21:00 PST

What A Band!!!

I recently got a copy of the new Mars Volta album "Amputechture" and oh my lord is it good. This is a fantastic band. Mind you, they are not for everyone. But if you have a tolerance for ethereal soun...
Posted by Matty La on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:05:00 PST

Time To Go To Tower

I just wanted to share my joy with evryone because for 3 tuesdays in a row artists/bands that I love will be putting out new records. 2 weeks ago, i purchased a new double album from Ben Harper. This ...
Posted by Matty La on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:20:00 PST

shamelessly yours...the K23

I was reading our band e-mailer that Alfred writes every week, (which if you don't get, you need to sign up on our mailing list at www.alhowardk23.com because it's hilarious) and to my suprise there i...
Posted by Matty La on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:50:00 PST

new obsession

My friend Emily turned me on to this band and my friend Renee got me a copy of this cd and i friggin' love it!!! Al Howard said it best when he told me that "they are the poor man's Neutral Milk Hotel...
Posted by Matty La on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:32:00 PST

it has recently been brought to my attention...

my friend chris saw my blog about ween and he asked me, why would anyone want a reccomendation from you? now i know that since he is from new york and it is really cold there, everything he has to sa...
Posted by Matty La on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:58:00 PST

good friends will tell you...

good friends will tell you if you have stuff in your teeth and if you have typos in your blogs. thanks al!! really good friends will tell you that you have typos in your blogs and call you a douchebag...
Posted by Matty La on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:14:00 PST

One of the Greatest Bands Ever

I'm listening to ween right now as i'm screwing around on my computer and...they are one of the greatest bands ever. Just so diverse and cool. If you are not into ween, start with either Chocolate and...
Posted by Matty La on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:35:00 PST