FAVORITE SONG LYRICS: "boy you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down" ( "I Am the Walrus" John Lennon, 1967) ......."The soul needs beauty for a soul mate.....when the soul wants.....the soul waits" (Bono/U2 2004)BACKROUND PHOTO: I took @ Long Nook beach, Truro, MA 8/05........................................................ .................
Too many to list, mostly artists, musicians, and photographers.......it would be nice to meet a soul mate....I know she..s out there somewhere......I believe everyone has several soul mates out there in the world....but the chances of meeting just one of them seem to be one in a million..................................................... ............................................................ MY IMAGES: sELeCt.fAVoRitE.aRT:.. "Les Folie des Grandeurs" (1961) by one of my favorite artists, truly ahead of his time, Rene Magritte, who died in 1967."High Noon" (1949) by Edward Hopper who also died in 1967. He spent most of his time in his NYC art studio but also owned a house in Truro, MA, where he spent most of his summers painting etc.one of my favorite nude photographs, a classic by Edward Weston (1886-1958), simply titled "Nude"(1941), and certainly "cutting edge" for the year 1941.
I love MUSIC and live by it. I consider it an essential "FOOD of LIFE" for me. It goes right to my SOUL and creates so many great feelings, emotions, and memories. I like several styles of music, mostly rock, the later "creative" Beatles stuff (..67-..69), especially the incredible bootleg stuff, also late 60..s/early 70..s rock, Clapton, Cream-their 2005 reunion stuff is great, BLIND FAITH...one of the absolute coolest bands of all-time--in spite of their brief existence in the one and only year of 1969, their legend and inspiration lives on---the new DVD is incredible, the Jimi Hendrix Experience first 3 records especially "Electric Ladyland" (1968) which was a milestone featuring "1983" and the long "Voodoo Child" with Steve Winwood on Hammond B-3, the first Crosby, Stills, & Nash first album/1969, TRAFFIC, with the very underrated Steve Winwood, (fantastic..94 Traffic re-union tour w/ Winwood & the late Jim Capaldi), older..68-..72 Stones,..69-..73 Brian Auger & the Trinity/Oblivion Express (more great Hammond B3 stuff), Spirit (Nature..s Way), 1st two Led Zeppelin albums both released in..69, Pete Townshend (& Who..69-..71 material), Buffalo Springfield, Jefferson Airplane, John Fogerty, JACK JOHNSON, Jars of Clay, Ashley Cleveland, ENTRAIN(from Martha..s Vineyard), Liz Phair (she "rocks" for 40+), Joan Osborne..s "Relish" kicks ass, Laura Nyro, Sheryl Crow (she plays guitar, bass, keyboards, and writes all her own songs---can the younger Britney-types do all that?), Michelle Branch (she plays guitar and writes), early Santana--1st 4 albums on Columbia, 70..s Jeff Beck(the "real" Beck), recent non 80..s Tears For Fears, the TUBES featuring the classic Prairie Prince on drums and artistry, older 70..s Todd Rundgren, Paul Weller, Janis Joplin, the late Arthur Lee..s LOVE, in particular "Four Sail" from ..69, Paul Carrack, U2-in particular their most recent-their best in years, Coldplay, can you believe Aerosmith..s first was 1973? (I was still a young rebel in high school), Bonnie Raitt, 1st Joss Stone(Soul Sessions)"raw sexuality soul-jazz vocals", most recent Derek Trucks Band release, Robert Plant, Rich Mullins, 1st Van Halen, AC-DC..s Back in Black, Lenny Kravitz...the retro Lennon/Hendrix-ish stuff, PHIL BROWN..s "Jimi project" is the best and most creative Hendrix cover versions I..ve ever heard---re-worked like no one has ever done--to the point of almost being completely new and different songs, Frank Zappa..s "Hot Rats" (..69) & "One Size Fits All(..75), a few New Orleans bands: The Meters (Funky Meters) and Neville Bros, Dr. John, some "lite" blues: Keb Mo and especially TAJ MAHAL, some JAZZ: especially heavier jazz fusion like RETURN TO FOREVER and their solo material..Chick Corea/Stanley Clarke/Lenny White/Al DiMeola, also Pat Metheny, Miles Davis, early George Duke, the jazzy Bruce Hornsby stuff, Jimmy Smith..s Dot Com Blues, and some mellow/Windham Hill stuff. Brazilian guitarist Jose Neto(Netoband) who toured with Steve Winwood is fantastic! Walfredo Reyes is an outstanding drummer who has also worked with Winwood and Santana. Saw the 10/05 WINWOOD show @ the Orpheum/Boston and it was superb.....everything from "Can..t Find My Way Home" to his later jazz/mellow-funky r&b oriented stuff. One of my most favorite (& obscure) musician/guitarist/singer-songwriters is "PHIL KEAGGY" who has many styles from instrumental jazz to vocal rocked-out guitar stuff and/or Christian ballads and mellow acoustic guitar instrumentals, little classical: Schubert and Mozart. I like some of the older soul and r&b stuff like Aretha Franklin and Sly & the Family Stone, & Booker T & the MG..s. I..m sick of the 80..s synth. music which really sounds "dated" to me now, even the late 60..s natural/organic rock (w/Hammond B-3 organ) sounds so much "fresher", creative and timeless....commentary: I especially DON..T like rap or hip-hop (sorry), which I don..t really consider music or "audio" with talent anyway....it..s really just jive urban poetry recited over one producer..s keyboard "synth" programming. Hip-hop is somewhat of a "fluffed" less-radical/girlie/dancey version of rap. I don..t really consider "pimps" and "gangstas" to be musicians or singers......most of them end up convicts....is the name-tag "rap" derived from "rap-sheet?".......RAP seems to INSPIRE and dwell on violence, rape, demeaning women, and shooting/killing people with guns.........sad to hear a child ask " mommy, what..s a pimp?"............ON A BRIGHTER NOTE: I..ve always considered many record/CD album covers to be great works of art, in their own unique way.....displayed are several of my favorite records for the music and/or album cover art & design.............NOTE: most of these images (not all) are actual photographs I took of the actual original 12 inch record album covers.......
"High Fidelity," "Almost Famous," "Meet The Parents," "Meet The Fockers," Oliver Stone..s "The Doors," Austin Powers-"The Spy Who Shagged Me," "Blow-Up," "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," "Woodstock," "Monterey Pop," the Monkees.. "Head," "The Rutles," "Yellow Submarine," "Magical Mystery Tour"(the Beatles biggest flop...or as McCartney said, "Hey, it..s an art film"), and also another total flop, such a flop it..s probably not even on DVD, "Neighbors" with Dan Akroyd and John Belushi, so silly, but SO funny I was on the floor laughing.........
Seinfeld and Home Improvement revisited on DVD.....also Two and a Half Men.
"Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards" by Al Kooper, "I and Eye" by Peter Simon, "Hippie" by Barry Miles, "I Me Mine" by George Harrison, "The Beatles on Apple Records" by Bruce Spizer, "Long Time Gone" by David Crosby and Carl Gottlieb, "Pickups/Classic American Trucks," photographs by William Bennett Seitz, "A Summer..s Day" by Joel Meyerowitz, plus various Art/Music/Photographic books (too many to list).
My Dad and Mom, my two beautiful children, John Lennon, Prairie Prince, Fred Rogers, George Harrison...Ashley Cleveland rOcKs