MY FAMILY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN MY LIFE then there is MUSIC, I LOVE my work-being in the studio, baseball (playing, coaching, the history of the game), history...WWII, the Roman Empire, ancient cultures.
Marvin Gaye, Jeff Buckley, John Lennon-RIP- George Martin, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Johnette Napolitano, again...and of course SRV
Music is life...life is music...the first on my list (they should be first on everyone's list) is: The Beatles...who else? Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Marvin Gaye, Jeff Buckley, Willie Nelson, Cheap Trick, Aretha Franklin, The Bellrays, Concrete Blonde, Prince, The Rolling Stones, KISS, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, U2, The Smiths, Hanoi Rocks, Motley Crue, Coldpaly, The Stooges, Joan Jett, Foo Fighters,The Black Crowes, Refused, Open Hand, Fuzzbubble, T.Rex, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, James Brown, The Ramones, Ozzy, The Cure, Duran Duran, Black Sabbath, Queens Of The Stone Age, NIN, David Bowie, Queen, White Stripes, The Police, Afghan Whigs, Eric Clapton, The Eagles, Lucinda Williams, Los Lobos, Jimi Hendrix, MC5, Black Label Society, Corrosion Of Conformity, The Allman Brothers, Rage Against The Machine, Pretty and Twisted, Tracy Bonham, Sade, Deftones, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Ben Harper, Audiokarate, QBO and more...alot more...I cut this down recently there were way to many to list.
The Godfather 1 and 2, Once Upon A Time In America, Goodfellows, Casino, Donnie Brasco, any mafia movies, Pride of the Yankees (the Lou Gehrig story), Bull Durham, Major League, Eight Men Out, The Sandlot..all baseball movies, Bound By Honor: Blood In Blood Out, Malcolm X., Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Patton
The History Channel, Jeopordy, Seinfeld, The Andy Griffith Show, M*A*S*H*, Conan O'Brien, NYPD Blue, The Sopranos, The West Wing, The Office, Entourage and anything by Ken Burns
Any book on WWII and the JFK assasination, Charles Bukowski, Wanda Coleman, Pablo Neruda, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jimmy Santiago Baca, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
My Grandfather..RIP...my kids, my mom and dad, my grandma, John Lennon, Rick Rubin, Clive Davis, Lou Gehrig and anyone doing what they have to do to support their family...most of all MY WIFE..