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Johnny Dango

rock & roll never sleeps...it just passes out

About Me

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long and plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men and women die like dogs. There's also a negative side."--Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/23/2005
Band Website: this one?
Band Members: sometimes i play with the Stillwater Pioneers: Dr. J. Lewis Card III, Mr. Courvoisier Kevin Hennessy, Scott Carlson, & Andy Hodgson... sometimes i play with the Horseshoe Rambling Light Orchestra: Dr. Lew, Mr. Courvoisier, Lawrence Glass, Will Sexton, Reid Dixon, & Mr. Ace... sometimes i play with Texico, which is really just the Pioneers plus Travis Pierce... and sometimes i just play with myself.
Influences: salvia divinorum, mostly. it beats the hell out of transcendental meditation.
Sounds Like: pleasure/leisure
Record Label: you can't label this, babe...
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Vote for Us!!! [please]

If you spend enough time in the vast netherworld that is MySpace, you've probably been asked more than once to vote more than once for a friend's band. So, now it's our turn to ask you, our friends, t...
Posted by Johnny Dango on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:05:00 PST

Our record is now available thru CD Baby!

it took awhile, but the album is finally available for purchase online.  CD Baby, the online independent record store, is now carrying copies of "Let's Go Pioneering!" if you don't own a co...
Posted by Johnny Dango on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:35:00 PST

RIP Bo Diddley

Sometime today, when you're driving in your car perhaps, or maybe cleaning up around the apartment, put some rock & roll on the stereo, turn it up loud, and say "Thank You" to Bo Diddley. Bo Diddl...
Posted by Johnny Dango on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:08:00 PST

The Good Doctor? Maybe the Best...

102 years old!!! RIP, Albert Hofmann Albert Hofmann wiki...
Posted by Johnny Dango on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:27:00 PST

Goodnight, Grace...

This was in the Boston Globe.  Couldn't find any mention of it in the major Oklahoma newspapers, which is about par for the course, I figure.  What passes for journalism in Oklahoma most...
Posted by Johnny Dango on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:49:00 PST

Three Stars for "Let’s Go Pioneering!"

...because 3 is 1 more than 2... http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid %3A580252 Best, J. Dango.. toctype = X-unknown -->.. toctype = text -->.. text -->...
Posted by Johnny Dango on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:54:00 PST

Got my mojo workin...

"There ain't no money in poetry... that's what sets the poet free."                         ...
Posted by Johnny Dango on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:52:00 PST

Gin

Recently it has come to my attention that I've been missing out on one of life's greater pleasures. Gin. That's right, friends. Gin...the finest product to come out of England since America. The secre...
Posted by Johnny Dango on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:38:00 PST

Why Me, Lord?

What contest in hell did I win? There's a great part in Be Here To Love Me, the movie about Townes Van Zandt, where Townes is talking about the difference between loneliness & being alone. He argu...
Posted by Johnny Dango on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:43:00 PST

So Long, Kurt Vonnegut...

Kurt Vonnegut was one of my favorite authors.  A hero, if I may be allowed to employ such an over-used and now nearly-meaningless word.  The first time I read "Breakfast of&nb...
Posted by Johnny Dango on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:10:00 PST