Music:
Member Since: 13/01/2006
Band Website: http://www.xleggs.com
Influences: Give a man a fifth, and he drinks for a day.
-Bungo
These lists are funny to me. I like to imagine what a band would sound like that combined all the influences on a band's list- like mixing too many colors and ending up with a shitty brown. Hey, maybe its working for me, my music is shitty!
No, really, I guess I should make a list because I've spent years wishing I could sound like these bands/artists:
The Mountain Goats, Jonathan Richman, Woody Guthrie, Violent Femmes, Lou Reed, Bob Wills, B-52s, The Ramones, The Dead Milkmen, Devo, Elvis, The Turtles, Fishbone, Bad Manners, The Specials, Antipasti, Sex Pistols, PIL, The Clash, G-Love and Special Sauce, Green Jello, Mark Freeland, The FEMS, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Splatcats, The Ramrods, Jim Carrol, John Lurie, Run DMC, Jim Croce and OF COURSE, Burl Ives.
Now I'm going to make a list of singers whose music I find transcendent:
Israel Kamakawiwo'oleRichard HawleyRoy OrbisonMarvin GayeCurtis MayfieldAl GreenMartha WainrightIsabelle AntennaJohn Darnielle
There are lots of current artists I listen to:
The Mountain Goats, Bishop Allen, Jack Conte, The Shins, Jose Gonzales, Kill Henry Sugar, Bright Eyes, WISP, Eminem, Three-Six Mafia- plus lots of underground hip hop like Resident Anti-Hero, Heavyweight Dub Champion, and my main mudda fudda, Immortal Technique.
I do also listen to quite a bit of jazz, in fact, I'd be completely happy with my iTunes playlist of masters of the Hammond organ: Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, and Jimmy McGriff! (or just a continuous loop of Bill Evans' Peace Piece!)
My current biggest musical influences, and support... much love all y'all:
Two Soul Theory Eric Starr GroupThe Jealous GodsNelson Starr
Sounds Like:
This is basically a wide SPECTRUM (;^)) of my musical endeavors from soundtracks that have been in several indie films to my own sort of punkish pop that has pervaded my "bands" over the years. In high school and college, I played in cover bands with my friends, but my own project was Bloody Donuts. We changed our name in 1987 to The Donut Club (when buttoned up co-founder and guitarist, J Grant Hauber, Esq., joined such an organization at an architectual firm where he was employed). Then, in 1988, I formed the ska outfit Bungo and the Trousers which really didn't go anywhere, but we did sorta play a gig once in Canada. There was a rowboat full of ice and (superiour Canadian) beer. I kept writing songs, and when I left town in 1994, I absconded (appropriated) my friend Nelson's first electric guitar, so I kept playing.
From the very beginning, I used computers in my music. I still have a VIC-20 system- reconstructed and maintained with parts from thrift stores which runs a VIC BASIC sound generator program that can do a wide variety of laser shots, random tones, noise generation etc. Now, I've graduated to GarageBand on my laptop, but there are still some remnants of VIC even in my lates music. In Simple Machines 3000, a tune I wrote in 1984, you can still hear my signature VIC-RHYTHM routine.
Record Label: EXTRA LARGE EGGS
Type of Label: Indie
