trees, oceans, paths, fields, drawing pictures with my 4 year old daughter, sushi, turning on to rare ProgElectronicPsychPunkSoulFolkDubRock albums, creating and manipulating sound
Robert Wyatt, Jimmy Carter, Maureen McCormick, Prometheus, Peter Hammill, Michael Caine, Scott Walker, Warren Olney, Ringo, the Committee
10 albums I LOVE: Innervisions (Stevie Wonder), Get Up With It (Miles Davis), Abbey Road (the Beatles), Black Secret Technology (A Guy Called Gerald), Daydream Nation (Sonic Youth), Get Happy (Elvis Costello and the Attractions), Gratitude (Earth, Wind and Fire), Soundtrack from 'More' (Pink Floyd), the Blowout Comb (Digable Planets), First Utterance (Comus).......... 10 songs I LOVE: A Touching Display (Wire), From the Beginning (ELP), Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield), City Slang (Sonic's Rendez-Vous Band), Ghost Town (the Specials), Your Gold Teeth (Steely Dan), Berimbau (Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66), Counterfeit Woman (the Only Ones), Make Me Wanna Holler (Marvin Gaye), Take it All (Badfinger).......... 10 prog bands that don't SUCK: Van Der Graaf Generator, Matching Mole, Sensations Fix, Triode, King Crimson (OK, they suck sometimes), Don Caballero, Spring, Hatfield and the North, Third Ear Band, Art Bears.......... 10 krautrock albums you will seek out because it's MY page and what I say goes: Cluster 'Zuckerzeit', German Oak 'German Oak', Dom 'Edge of Time', Can 'Ege Bamyasi', Harmonia 76 'Tracks and Traces', Sand 'Ultrasonic Seraphim', Michael Rother 'Sterntaler', Faust (1st), Tangerine Dream 'Zeit', La Dusseldorf (1st) ----all on CD = no excuses.......... 10 drummers to worship: Max Roach, John Bonham, Robert Gotobed, Alan Myers, Andy Ramsay, Earl Hudson, Al Jackson Jr, Ginger Baker, Jaki Liebezeit, Tony Williams.......... 10 bands/artists whose recorded output I collect like a madman: the Hafler Trio, Stereolab, Devo, Pink Floyd, 4hero, Guided by Voices, Sun City Girls, Sonic Youth, A Guy Called Gerald, Nurse With Wound.......... 10 bands I've played in over the last 20 years: Infant Mortality Rate (1985-88), God's Garbage (1986-88) Factory Rat (1986-92), Expletive Deleted (1988-89), CrushHead (1989-91), Uluteka (1993-97), the Millionaires (1994-97), the Energy Club (1996-98), the Dining Room Set (1997-2000), the Moon Upstairs (2000-present)..........
Quadrophenia, THX-1138, Dr. Strangelove, the Life and Death of 9413, the French Connection, Privilege, A Clockwork Orange, Eraserhead, Faust (Svankmajer), Let's Scare Jessica to Death
the Honeymooners, the Twilight Zone, the Lawrence Welk Show, Stingray, Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Brady Bunch, Good Times, Cosmos, Davey and Goliath, Yacht Rock
A Confederacy of Dunces, The Whole Shebang, England's Hidden Reverse
George Foster (Big Red Machine 1971-1981), Raymond Scott, John Peel (RIP)