Playing drums & percussion, the CAJON, making music, traveling, backpacking, hiking, camping, NATURE, feeling the sunshine, eating red vines, listening to good music, DRUM CIRCLES, enjoying the good company of friends and family.
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Oh boy, here it goes: Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, SANTANA, Led Zep, Police, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Pretenders, CCR, Allman Brothers Band, Pink Floyd,Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, Sonny Rollins, Meters, Grant Green, Soulive, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Hunter, Karl Denson, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Dave Matthews Band, Ray Lamontagne, Van Morrison, Govt Mule, The Band,Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Gomez, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Etta James, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Damien Rice, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, The Black Crowes, Galactic, STS9, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Widespread Panic, Zap Mama, Sade, Keller Willams, John Butler Trio, Medeski Martin & Wood, Counting Crowes, U2, Radiohead, The Doves, Los Lobos, Ritmo Y Canto, Gipsy Kings, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Dennis Brown, Gregory Issacs, Caitro Soto, Susana Baca, Eva Ayllon, Fela Kuti, Lila Downs, Lhasa, Cafe Tacuva, Poncho Sanchez, Buena Vista Social Club, Tito Puente, PERSIAN MUSIC & CULTURE, PERU NEGRO and any/all Afro-Peruvian music. Also- every hard working, independant & broke musicians starting out and following their dreams and passion.
Motorcycle Diaries, Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,Baraka,Buena Vista Social Club, Calle 54,The Last Waltz.
I try to avoid watching too much TV, but when I do, it's either The Simpsons or anything on the National Geographic channel and PBS (like Globe Trekkers)
Anything by Eduardo Galeano, Pablo Neruda, Mario Vargas Llosa. 'Indian Givers' by Jack Weatherford. 'Stolen Continents' by Ronald Wright. Ethnomusicology- CURRENTLY READING: "Black Rhythms of PERU" by Heidi Carolyne Feldman
My mom & pops, and all of the veterans and mentors of life who teach me how to be a better human being. (as well as how not to screw up ;)