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MySpace Editor Rasheed Richmond
My influences and inspirations run deep and lord, oh lord, they are legion!I have a head for the makers of Truth Music. They are an odd and incendiary rabble and they sing their names to me thus, Francois de Roubiax[True Rhythm Master], Bobby Hutchinson [Lover Man], Eugene MacDaniels [Lover Man too], Kate Bush [Understand this, she is the witch you need], Can [Germanic pop lords], Sinister grooving [Real BLACK music is jet black], Eddie Warner's IM output [Shit crazy and all that], Abbey Lincoln's Afro Blues [Succubus, dealer of dreams], Frank Zappa [who doesn't?], Sex in music [prove it to me], Italo Electronics & the Masters: Sorgini, Simonneti, Trovajoli, Umilianni, Lesiman, Fallabrino, De Piscopo, Piccioni, Gemigniani, I Marc's & Carlo Pes, Pawnshop, Mirageman, Sciascia, Le Groupe X, Ariston Records, CAM libraries and their like, Goblin [fuck mothers of Dark Jazz], Jesus FRANCO [Godhead to those who feel the REAL] and the Patriarch, Morricone [Psych era puh-leeze], Linda Perhacs [still waters run deepest], Vampires all over Dartmoor [crazy dropping evil funk], TRUE UK Psych [Whimsy over flimsy], Forest [lording it big style], Texas garage madness [what, no OG? Chasing this shit for the long haul], Don Shinn [Temple Landlord], Nilovic [Live, always live!], Peter Thomas and the MIGHTY Klaus Weiss [KILLA!], Niagara, Plus and all that, all that, COS [My top love], Marc Moulin [Magician of Moules], Bo Hannson [Runs it nice], Ossanna, Trunk [God loves the fool], the Bass and the Drum [wise plays], clanking, mechanical Hip Hop, Clash City Rockers, Krautrock instrumentalist activists, Matt in Plimsole, Silver Machines, White Horses, Golden sands and big Blue Horizons, soul surfing [You knows it Geeves, dig the secret spot kid?], Crantock [in the day], Pam, Dan and the Brady Bunch, Madwave action, Serms [Psychforce], Pink Floyd [Check1], Shawn Phillips [soul boy genius], Joni Mitchell [Survivor], Peter Sellers and the mini-cooper, Rude boy bashment, Levis [Kings], Flip [Kings Road back, back, back in the day] ex-Vegetarians who dig faces, Rich [Gent], being patient to the old, being kind to children [they miss nothing], Stevie Marriot [RIP] & his Small Faces[ S.O.U.L], desert boots and polo necks, Hard Psych and soft palates, remaining in flux, daring to rock slippers, Lanquidity and toasted Crumpets, Godsy, Votel and Sage [Unholy Trinity of the Beat], Edan [not Edam], Ben Hatton [drum molester], Peel {RIP Daddy}, Cramps [Hammersmith Odeon on the Lord's Day], MC5 & Iggy circa '68, socks 'n' sandals, wild ass hair and flat bellied girls, Thai food [real flavour] Manchester Morgue, Boosh, Larkin clan, rainy walks, sprung dancefloor, blackdogs, Perfume, Harry Kumel, Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon, Cassavetes, David Crosby [Chief Rocker ..1], Neil Young's On the Beach [saved my soul], going where the pavement turns to sand, Marvin Gaye & troubled men everywhere, my family [Truth rockers] and all my crazy connections, keeping me bleating.
Music is everything, right? We're all agreed on this surely...........yeah? Then we're rolling.
All my Hero's are in me, breathing. It's sometimes crowded, you know?