Check out this incredible version of Memphis Soul Stew, featuring my friend and mentor Jerry Jemmott on bass, with Bernard Purdie, Cornell Dupree, Truman Thomas and Warren Smith. And of course....King Curtis.
Whew.
And in no particular order:John Paul Jones, Willie Weeks, Paul McCartney, Chuck Rainey, Ray Brown, Colin Moulding, John McVie, James Jamerson, Donald 'Duck' Dunn, David Hood, Rick Danko, Berry Oakley, Phil Lesh, Aston 'Family Man' Barrett, Cachao, Larry Graham, Paul Chambers, Charles Mingus, Bill Salter, Bruce Thomas and tons more that I can't believe I'm leaving off this list
Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Coen Brothers, John Huston, John Sayles, D.A. Pennebaker, Maysles Brothers, Wes Anderson, Robert Altman, David Lean, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog
Not hooked up to cable, but we rent a lot of stuff: Deadwood is simply the best damn television show I've ever seen. Period.
Joseph Heller, Harry Crews, James Ellroy, Tom Wolfe, Homer, William Gibson, John Keegan, Robert Stone, Dr Seuss, Larry McMurtry