Member Since: 12/29/2005
Band Members: just me........and a 6 & 12 string.
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Influences: melanie. my brother for giving me my first guitar when i was 17 & draggin me out to open mics & gigs to sing & play.allman's before they sobered up, steve earle, tim o'brien, newgrass revival & the members' later stuff, mellencamp, indigo girls, tony rice, vassar clements, maura o'connell, darrell scott, john hartford, sinnead o'connor, some beatles, U2, arlo & pete, del mccory band, Celtic, the list goes on & on... I was the world music 'expert' at Tower Nashville...what i tend to listen to sometimes is not what i want to play...judas priest (w/halford), black sabbath (w/ozzy), metallica, murphy's, stones, iggy, the cult, rollins, ac/dc, pogues, the clash & others...i'm all over the map.
Sounds Like: me
general interests besides musicbooks, sleep, photography, making jewelry, trying new recipes, organic & biodynamic gardening, CSAs, SCA, ancient civilisations, medeival history, western civ, asian art, international music of most types, alternative medicine, message therapy, herbalism, food as medicine, walks on a quiet road, fields, large spaces with no people cars or noise, birds, cats, zoos, museums, libraries, hiking, camping, swimming, soccer, winter olympics, horses, finding the interconnectedness of all things.
bookssci fi/fantasy, history-mainly early civilisations, china, europe to about 1700, mysticism, mythology, harry potter, some 'literature', gardening, folk tales, agatha christie, ellis peters, douglas adams!! (i love that mind!!), tolkien, harrison's viking saga, some david eddings, marion zimmer bradley, andre norton, ray bradbury!!! (my favorite), joseph campbell, carl sagan, hawkings' can be a difficult read but i like to challenge myself sometimes, stephen king, adele davis, dr. chritiane northrup, gloria steinem, susan sontag, dalai llama,
movies/tvserenity (the firefly series movie), LOTR, indiana jones & star wars trilogies, star trek, billy elliot, i'm a big fan of chinese cinema & kung fu movies!!! chow yun-fat & jet li-i've seen just about all that i can get my hands on. faves of theirs are "better tomorrow", "the killer", "crouching tiger.." & "once upon a time in china 1-3" & "hero". i love zhang yimou's (director) movies, period pieces like elizabeth, braveheart, gladiator-basically, if the men (and women!!) are in kilts or armour i'm probably going to like it. ANYthing tom hanks, i can tell you how sean bean dies in any movie he's been in (those where his characters DO die, which are most), kate blanchett, meryl streep, maggie smith, helen mirren, geoffrey rush, kenneth branagh, viggo mortensen-he gets so into his characters. clive owen-he went from almost unknown here in the states to doing a movie or 2 a year!24, history & discovery channels. PBS. spongebob. avatar. arrested development-leave it to fox to cancel yet another great show. new one on USA, burn notice. monk.
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