Music:
Member Since: 05/02/2006
Band Members: JOHN ye BAGMAN;
Medway based Anti-'Muso' Musician, Scrap Instrument Maker, Morris Dancer, Culture Vulture, Historian, Sceptic, Science Freak, occasional Artist, sometime Film Extra and all round Nice Guy!
Instruments:
Rickenbacker 4001 Bass,
Electric Resonator Mandolin,
Autoharp,
Rope Tensioned Drums,
Synthesizers,
Atari 1040st Newcomen Engine,
PLUS the infamous...
Home Made Hurdy Gurdy!
WELCOME TO MY PERSONAL PAGE...
Last updates: November 2009
Sounds Like:
Yes, I do like the sounds...
Influences: Growing up in the 70's, Glam Rock before aspiring to be a Teddy Boy. So classic 1950's Rock'n'Roll/Rockabilly rocked my world until the NWOBHM arrived in 1979.
Through that and later the 80's Sheppey/Medway band scenes, I became far more eclectic. Eventually taking in...
DIY punk
70's Prog/Kraut/Psych Rock
Trad English Folksong
70's Folk-Rock
Southern Boogie
30's Folk-Blues
Old-Time/Bluegrass
60's Freakbeat
60's British Blues
70's Essex R&B/Pub Rock
60's Ska
70's Dub
Gothic,
Movie Soundtracks
Folksong/Oral Histories
Spoken Word
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
The Goon Show and anything else eccentric or perverted that makes a sound.
Specifically?:
What about...
Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Fugazi, Gene Vincent, Bo Diddley, The Deviants, MC5, Ozrics, Lieutenant Pigeon, Fairport Convention, John Lee Hooker, Mr Fox, Pink Floyd, Steel Pulse, The Orb, Augustus Pablo,
Kate Bush, Dub War, Kraftwerk, Culture Shock, Alan Stivell, Vangelis, Twelfth Night, The Subhumans, Zodiac Mindwarp, Porcupine Tree, Can, The Specials, The Damned, Focus, Atomic Rooster, Neu!, Woody Guthrie,
Paescod, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Marillion, Fields of the Nephilim, Lee Perry, Ennio Morricone, Incredible String Band, Groundhogs, Ian Dury, The Exploited, Mike Oldfield, Mike Harding,
plus classic Isle of Sheppey bands;
Torture, Mean Streak, The Commited,
All Flags Burn and
Criminal Brainstorm
...to name but a few (in spirit of, if not in practice!)
Record Label:
'OWW' for my music
'Beer Cart Records' for the Morris related recordings
Record Label: OWW (DIY Label)
Type of Label: Indie
