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Matt Yates

About Me

I am 18 and a recipient of the GED (for various reasons underlined by powerlessly influential educational bureaucrats with false compassion). But that is another story. I will start Murray State University in the fall of 2009, with little idea for my future. I have been writing profusely and playing music since I was 10. I have written three books and several as of yet unfinished books, as well as at least 300 poems, songs, and short stories. A few of the poems I can add chords to and it not sound ridiculously monotonous or unstructured. Other songs I have on here are often covers of my favorite artists, including many traditional folk songs.-M. Yates
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Music:

Member Since: 21/01/2006
Band Members: Matt Yates (and the Moirae)
Influences: I'm influenced by everything I experience, but some of the best music that has constantly influenced me is: Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Bob Marley, The Beatles, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Elliott Smith, Wu Tang Clan, Nirvana, Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Cisco, Sonny, Beck, The Shins, MGMT, Simon and Garfunkel, Justice, Daft Punk, Iron and Wine, Death Cab for Cutie,She and Him, Conor Oberst, Neil Young, Modest Mouse, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, David Bowie, RHCP, Mos Def, Coconut Records, The White Stripes, The Racontuers, Moondog, LCD Soundsystem, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Cat Power, The Doors, The Band, Cream, Love, The Dodos, Muddy Waters, Kanye West, Biggie, The Eagles, Radiohead, Bert Jansch, Led Zeppelin, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, John Lennon, CCR, Joy Division, Against Me, Sublime, Jack Johnson, Dead Kennedy's, Leftover Crack, Janis Joplin, M. Ward, Mozart, Chopin, Damien Rice, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Against Me, Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, John Prine, Warren Zevon, pretty much all the sons of Bob Marley, the prose of Kerouac and Burroughs and the verse of Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti, and literally everything else, I just can't think of much off the top of my head...

Sounds Like: Silence plus other things.

Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Books

    So I have decided to stop looking for actual publishers, or at least for now, and publish with a website. Lulu.com has published a novel I have written (in 2004) and a book of poems...
Posted by on Tue, 01 May 2007 20:56:00 GMT

CD + Wanting to play another show or something

    Well, I made a CD up, 8 tracks with an intro (Tom Waits' "Nirvana"). Also, I really have been wanting to play another show or jam with some people. I write new stuff (poems and othe...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:27:00 GMT

Amor Fati

               Though the truth is never true, I've always wanted to be true.  Never part of a post-apocalyptic or pre-apocalyptic wor...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:34:00 GMT