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patrick

About Me

I grew up in San Francisco and have been playing guitar since the age of ten and piano since the age of 19. I feel very fortuneate that I've been able to play with a vast amount of musicians that are my heroes including: Chester D, Barry Melton, Karl Perazzo, Giovanni Hidalgo, Poncho Sanchez, Marc Quinnones, Smith Dobson, jr., Orestes Vilato, Josh Jones, Geoff Brennan, Steve Herrara, Jorge Pomar, Dave Flores, Carlos Caro, Julio Perez, and too many more to list. I love my sweet girlfriend Katya and my family and all my friends. I'm currently working on a new CD with my band Mas cabeza with all original compositions that I've been composing over the past 5 years and would like to thank Smith Dobson, jr., Steve Herrara, Julio Perez, Carlos Caro and Dave Flores for playing on my album. Thank you all for the support and hope to see you at a mas cabeza gig sometime...

My Interests

I love music, good friends and family. laughing and exercise are also important. Oh yeah, and finishing school means alot, and I'm doing it one (cough)... class (cough).. at a time (gasp!)

I'd like to meet:

all except the draining ones

Music:

Bach, Satie, Debussy, Beethoven, Monk, Mingus, Trane, Miles, Peruchin, Chucho,Bill Evans, Sonny Clark, Pixies, Violent Femmes, Doors, Donny Hathaway, Joe Williams, AC/DC, Ruben Gonzales, Micheal Comillo, Eddie Palmieri, Ernesto Lecouna, Cachao,Wynton Kelly, Sonny Rollins, Frank Emillio Flynn, Tata Guinnes, Sonora Poncena,Beatles, Duke,Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Satchmo, Harry Parch, Frank Zappa, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Edgar Varese and much more.

Movies:

Comedies. Anything with Chris Farley or Will Farrell or Sacha Cohen in it. Also some horror (Evil Dead) and foreign films(Fellini)and B movies (Corman)

Television:

Arrested development, curb your enthusiasm, simpsons, seinfeld,south park, monty python's flying circus, fawlty towers, Ali G, old SNL, etc.

Books:

Experiments with truth (Ghandi), Thus spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche), Crime and Punishment( Dosteyevsky), Angela,s Ashes ( McCourt), anything by Keroac, Beneath the Undergdog(Mingus),Devinci Code(Dan Brown)

Heroes:

First and foremost my beautiful sisters Nora and Debbie. also Christopher Reeves, Sacha Cohen, Ghandi, Chris Farley, Will Farrell, and any artist and musician who creates from the heart and not from the wallet.