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Mike C.

About Me

Thanks for checking out my music MySpace page. Hope you enjoy what you hear and see! Hopefully, I'll have some newer songs uploaded in the near future. For now, you're left with oldies but goodies, but that'll do for now.I've been in and out of the music scene of Pittsburgh since I was a young pup, when I first picked up my brother's ukelele and plucked a noisy sound that I found appealing. I played my first gig at the 2nd grade talent show in the gymnasium of Overlook Elementary School, which is now a nursing home in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. Dressed in polyester pants and sporting a shaggy early '80s haircut, little me strummed a cute little song over and over again until someone yanked me off the stage. At that moment, I caught a major case of the music bug, and I've yet to be cured as an adult. Maybe someday I'll end up a resident in that same old building, once an elementary school, now a nursing home, as a happy old man, strumming a worn out ukelele, singing old Beatles songs. I hope so, because I don't ever want to be cured of the music bug! Rock on!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 31/12/2005
Band Members: Little old me plus friends & family since I started strumming a six string -brother Bill, sister Denise, Mom & Dad, guitar teachers Mrs. V. and Mr. Churn, Dan, Glenn, Steve, Scotty D., Grimm, Larry, Carl, Frank, George, Killer, Rob, Gene, Joe T., my boys Grant, Gavin & Jude, my wonderful wife Lisa, and just about anyone else who has a voice & makes noise!
Influences: CHILDHOOD: The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Boston, Kansas, Genesis, Cars, Outlaws, Dire Straits, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Steely Dan, Beach Boys, Jim Croce, ABBA, John Denver, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul McCartney & Wings, John Lennon, George Harrison, Eagles, E.L.O.ADOLESCENCE: U2, They Might Be Giants, Elvis Costello, R.E.M., Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Bob Dylan, A.T.S., Nirvana, Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Traveling Wilburys, Neil Young, C.S.N., Paul Simon, Crowded House, Beck, Sting, Police, David Bowie, Traffic, Indigo Girls, Squeeze, Split Enz, Kinks, Ray Davies.ADULTHOOD: Radiohead, Frank Black, Grant-Lee Phillips, Grant Lee Buffalo, Neil Finn, Aimee Mann, Alison Krauss, Johnny Cash, Nick Drake, The Band, Dane Zanes, Jeff Buckley, David Gray, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird, Wilco, Sun Volt.
Sounds Like: Frank Black, Pete Townshend, Lindsay Buckingham, Grant-Lee Phillips, Neil Finn, They Might Be Giants
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Peace Prayer

Hey, all.  Peace Prayer is a collaborative effort from a few years back between my friend Glenn of Lunatic Dog / Delirium Dog fame and myself.  We set the Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assi...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:46:00 GMT