Oh lord where did the feeling go Oh lord I never felt so low.
Oh lord where did the feeling go Oh lord I never felt so low.
An understanding of Roots music: Blues, BlueGrass, Classic Country. A working knowledge of 70's and 80's Hard rock and an egual appreciation for Punk, New Wave of the same era. You can do Both. DIY is great but there is nothing wrong with learning how to play. "Is that a Seymore Duncan Humbucker in your Epiphone les Paul Derek?" Everythig with soul! Guitar solos are good for you! SRV, Angus, Jimi, Neal, Ace, Zac, Superunloader, The Dragons, Frank Zappa, , Hanoi Rocks, New York Dolls, The Smiths (everything ever recorded), the first 3 Metalica albums, Chuck Berry -The Real King of Rock and Roll, The Who - LiveAtLeeds, Iron fuck'n Maiden, EVH -- Women and Children First & FairWarning, OzzyEra Sabbath and Dio Era Sabbath, KISS-both"Lives", The Malakas, Deke Dickerson, Junior Brown, Charlie Christian, TheFuckBoys, Atom & His Package, Cramford Nix -- Genious, Dylan, Springsteen, Cowboy Junkies, Allison Krause, Gillian Welch, George Jones, Gene Harris, Joni Mitchell, BEASTIES, MC Chris, MC Paul Barmen, Digable Planets, Velvet UnderGround, MInor Threat, Fear, AFI, Atom&HisPackage, www.pirate.969.org = the Real PirateRadioStation, www.WFMU.org -- (Teenage Waistland is a great show) GramParsons, John McLaughlin, JJ Cale, Louis Jordan. Well, I have been to 4 Morrissey concerts and 4 Motley Crue Concerts which means I spend healthy amount of time reading poetry to strippers.
24/Hour Party People, The Departed, Tom Dowd and the Language of Music, Trainspoting, Lost in Translation, Deer Hunter, Mistic River, Taxi Driver, Last Waltz, WoodStock, Decline of Western Civilization I, Montery Pop (1967), Festival Express, Another State of Mind, the Wall, Magnolia, Repo Man, Romper Stomper, Garden State, 3.14159, Goodfellas, Endless Summer, Why We Fight, Valley Girl, Green Street Hooligans, Syriana, Scratch, Jules and Jim.
BBC World, Will and Grace, New Hour with Jim Lahre(sp?), Law & Order, The Simpsons, NFL, Padres, Mythbusters, World Cup, Premere League FootBall, (have to go to Pubs to see this).
House of Leaves - Danielewski, Hairstyles of the Damned--Joe Meno, Howard Zinn, Hemingway, Dave Eggers, East of Eden (any and all Steinbeck), Burton W Peretti, the Creation of Jazz, HST, Bukowski, A Drinking life-Hamill, LIfe of Pi, Killing yourself to Live, Fargo Rock City - Klosterman, Nersesian, Norton Anthology of English Lit, David Sedaris, Anais Nin & Henry Miller, Rilke,.
Anyone who can fall in love unconditionally and see salvation in their lover. Those who are not afraid.