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The Smitty Collaborative

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/01/2006
Band Website: U R Hear already!
Influences: Herbie Hancock, George Duke, Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, DuNoiss, Prince, Bjork, Gospel Music, Life, Bizarre incidents, ex-girlfriends, John Coltrance; Local Players/Singers/Bands: Arlington Jones, Darwin Martin, Jeff Plant, shelley carroll, Daran Deshazo, Domino, JT, Bobby Sparks, Dwayne Heggar, Curt Bradshaw, Jamil Byron, Jason Davis, Larry Davis, Cory Lacy, Eric Willis, Brayln Lacy, Mahogany, stanley glenn, DuNoiss, Ciamar ... Beethoven, Bach, Stravinsky, Lenny Kravitz, Van Hunt, Hank Jones, Jimi Hendrix, George Clinton and P-Funk, Bill Evans, Art Tatum, Art Blakely, Dizzy Gillespie, Michel Camilo, Tito Puente, celtic music, african music, latin music, Chick Corea, Dave Weckel, Horatio Hernandez, Steve Smith, Marcus Miller, Wayne Shorter, Mike Stern, Producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, chamber music, fusion jazz music, sound in general, silence, lalah hathaway, rachelle ferrell, david sanborn, meshell n'degeocello, mint condition, the roots, tribe called quest, sting, world music, deep forest, sarah vaughn, billie holiday, sister getrude, sexy women, personal drama, heard about drama, great storytellers, stanley clark, dennis chambers, avant garde music, people I haven't met yet, Charles Mingus, bill laswell, .....
Sounds Like: Water. In Space. Inside a Black Hole. In Universe B. At 314,000 mph. On a Monday Night.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Descent into Madness

My descent begins around September 2005. This is my real life diary, of sorts, and how bizarre these situations came to exist - totally at random. This will be a "blog in progress" b/c I cannot reme...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:15:00 GMT

Behind the Music

Here I will talk about past/present tracks on my site. Why I'm sharing this I don't know... 8-)"View from an Airplane" came to me around, I think, Jan. 2006, maybe. (now i'll have to go look it up......
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:32:00 GMT

Gig Stories: Updated occasionally

Please post your interesting gig stories here.  Feel free to change names to protect the uh, named.  OR name them so the rest of us can know not to use that person on a gig.  I'll be ad...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:28:00 GMT