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Barkless Dog

A barkless dog's music

About Me

I use the name Barklessdog - like the basenji/barkless dog, I can't really sing, but like a basenji I am not mute.I was always a 'fine artist' first hand, having gone to a fine arts college (the CIA), which formed my thinking. I started playing music with the likes of Dan Maurer & Rich Engle, which were huge influences on me musically, as well as my older brother who is not a musician, but has a very large music collection. He turned me on to many wild & wonderful artists. During my college years I was in several proggish bands with amazing musicians such as Jim Juhn, Mike Tomasic, Ron Olds, Duane Bubsy, Dave Friedman & others, which really shaped my song writing and musical direction. I owe a huge amount of what I am today to Jim who introduced me to his friend Mike Docy, who indulged my solo bass playing in it's childhood. The Kahler tremolo & Gibson RD Artist bass are essential to my sound. As with the above-mentioned musicians I just have to keep moving forward musically...This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/6/2005
Band Members: Barkless Dog - 68 Gibson Non Reverse T bird Bass, 82 Gibson RD Artist Bass with Kahler, Custom John Entwistle vintage replica Fenderbird Bass, 2003 Les Paul Standard Bass, 69-70 Transtion Year Gibson Custom Modified EB-0 with Big D Varitone, added Rio Grande Pit Bull & Sperzel locking tuners, Korg N-1 syth, various drum machines & Apple loops & samples.
Influences: Adrian Belew, King Crimson, Wilco,, Zappa, Fred Frith, Primus, Mike Watt, Melt-Banana, Ashra & Manuel Göttsching, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Jeff Beck, Captain Beefheart, Stanley Clarke, Snake Finger, The Residents, The Prodigy, John Entwistle, Peter Hook, Jack Bruce, Gentle Giant, Yes, Peter Hammil, Lou Reed, The Brecker Brothers, Billy Sheehan, Jean Luc Ponty/ Ralphe Armstrong, Fat Boy Slim, Rage Against The Machine, System Of A Down, Idiot Saint Crazy, Jim Juhn, Dan Maurer, Mike Docy, My wife and kids, my friends & my dogs
Sounds Like: 1. They can be noisy. Though it's true they don't bark, they can growl, whine, scream and yodel. And when I say scream, I mean SCREAM!!!!!!!!!2. Barkless Dog doesn't need you for entertainment purposes, either. Oh, no! There are pages to rip out of magazines, toilet paper streamers to drag through the house, trashcans to topple, pillow filling to free from the case, and the edges of area rugs to unravel. Keep your money in a wallet, and your wallet in the car! Barkless Dog likes nothing better than shredding twenty dollar bills.
Record Label: Can I chew on that?
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Melt Pajamas

I have been listening to the Japanese Band Melt Banana and this song was inspired by them.The melted backward bass was the main feature, but the main goal was forgetting about fundamentals of music an...
Posted by Barkless Dog on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:16:00 PST

Founding Fathers #1 at SoundClick.com

A song I did, adding my son's homework assignment pasted on a weird experiment I did, is number one at SoundClick.com in the category of Politics!Shhhh don't tell my son I used his project Find it he...
Posted by Barkless Dog on Wed, 23 May 2007 06:33:00 PST

Sugar Puppies

I changed my other site , Sugar Puppies, to be focused on the vocal talents of our female singing basenji. This page, Barkless Dog, is focused on my experiments with the electronic bass. There will be...
Posted by Barkless Dog on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:50:00 PST

Rock Lee awarded song of the day!

Rock continues to do well on the site Garage Band. It was awarded song of the day for October 30th 2006...
Posted by Barkless Dog on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:13:00 PST

Rock Lee voted most original instrumental Rock song!

Most Original in Instrumental Rock, week of 16Oct2006 at the Music Site Garage Band.http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSlZVmxYmk Kind of a nice surprise. Songs like Rock Lee do not happen e...
Posted by Barkless Dog on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:50:00 PST

The Pig Dog

I was fooling around with this new effect and it's sounded like a pig, so The Pigdog was born. A song inspired by Jim Juhn, that is about as stiched together as the pigdog's nose!Most the tracks are u...
Posted by Barkless Dog on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:18:00 PST

Rock Lee - Double Whammy!

A song inspired by the character from the Anime, Naruto, Rock Lee. A very funny & touching character who with silly big eyebrows and bowl haircut give everyone of his life to prove he can be every bit...
Posted by Barkless Dog on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 04:36:00 PST