John Whipple - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I was born awhile ago and I am still alive. I play music and I have done other things too! I have dreams, hopes, and wishes, and I plan to continue doing stuff until I die.

Songs for No One on i-Tunes

The Last Cold One on i-Tunes

Yes!!! You can get The Last Cold One and Songs For No One on i-Tunes!! Or if you want to really feel special you can message me and I'll send you a homemade version through the US Mail. Act now and I'll include two autgraphed self portrait cocktail napkins absolutely free!!!!!!!

The Lovely Laurie Bennett was kind enough to film this one man band version of "burning alive"in my basement... "the devil at my door" on Park City Tv

what a fool am i (live on PCTV Mountain Views June 2005) I edited my profile Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6

AS YOU CAN SEE MY ARMIES ARE EVERYWHERE! SOON YOU WILL ALL BOW TO ME AND MY EVIL!!!!!! Click to zoom-in.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/3/2005
Band Website: whipplemusic.com
Band Members: John Whipple (dobro, guitar, banjo, piano, accordion, and vocals) with occassional special guests, Gigi Love(vocals), Joel Zeigler(bass guitar), James Perry(drums, sequencing), John McColley(lap steel), Sean McCarthy(keys), Will Sartain, and Jason Giron.
Influences: the taste of rust beer wine cigarettes joints pavement... the sounds of snow winds pines oceans sky traffic trains bicycle handlebars dobros guilds cheap banjos accordions harmonicas rain furnaces.... the howl of tom waits skip james chris whitley beth gibbons marvin gaye edith piaf curtis mayfield greg brown mose allison howlin' wolf lady day johnny cash lhasa... the dreams of h. s. thompson buckowski cormac mccarthy harry crews kurt vonnegut dali terry gilliam laurie bennett jeunet pollock jeff whipple carl jung sherman alexie el greco john lennon william blake richard brautigan mc escher... the music of bach nine inch nails 16 horsepower godspeed you! black emperor radiohead talking heads the clash led zeppelin prokofiev morphine rl burnside mingus miles davis mister bungle coltrane juana molina thelonious monk ali farka toure corey harris o'death the beatles fela kuti tricky amon tobin...
Sounds Like: The anguish of watching a beer spilling over the bar, a last shot of Tequila toasting the dawn, a highway sign that says that you're over 200 miles from anywhere, fresh coffee at camp 10,000 feet up in the Rio Grande National Forest, her eyes when she's into you, her vacant stare when she's not, the third night of having ramen for dinner, that guilty swig of top shelf single malt scotch........
Record Label: Arrogant Hipster, Dumbass, Rustic Digital
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

thanks for stealing my music

I have had alot of downloads this week. I measure all my music income in terms of beers (and I mean decent beer (Sierra Nevada, ect)- not buttwiser or some other watered down piss...) and if I got my ...
Posted by John Whipple on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:09:00 PST

dance of the bread rolls... The Gold Rush- one of the best movies ever

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Posted by John Whipple on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:54:00 PST

perspective

what you don't see on american t.v....
Posted by John Whipple on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:40:00 PST

guitars...

My first guitar was a 1950's Kay archtop. The neck was reglued and it had awful action and not too much tone. It gave me a song or two and then I sold it for way too cheap at a expo.A few years later ...
Posted by John Whipple on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:29:00 PST

life long mystery......

Once I was really liqoured up thanks to no good artists and a Cuban refuge and I found myself trapped in a situation where I had a major case of the spins and couldn't throw up without making a comple...
Posted by John Whipple on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:29:00 PST

this just in... sex

I made it there late. It was always late to me anyway. I hadn't slept for days. I had traveled by bus. Over the phone, he had said the place was nice. He didn't mention the mess, but it was assumed be...
Posted by John Whipple on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:03:00 PST

What are you looking at?!

"What are looking at motherfucker? You wanna start something?" I was just sitting at the Streetcar station. The only thing I wanted to start was riding the Streetcar instead of sitting at the station ...
Posted by John Whipple on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:04:00 PST

snow day

it snowed so much here in portland today that people were resorting to shovels. i said the hell with that and recorded a song... apparently i have taken a turn towards Irish folk... so be itthe rough ...
Posted by John Whipple on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:01:00 PST

unmatched socks

So I send my resumes into space. Nothing ever comes back. They are lost. I tend to believe that they have been sucked into some black hole and have entered a parallel universe where all my unmatched s...
Posted by John Whipple on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:00:00 PST

sometimes work is boring

Sometimes work is boring. Sometimes it is so boring that my mind just wanders off. At first, it only wandered off for a few minutes, but now it doesn't come back until happy hour. It hasn't affected m...
Posted by John Whipple on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:18:00 PST