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It sounded poignant

About Me

DRUMS.mostly self-taught drummer & composer. my own music is very film score-ish (see PaganoMuzak below) prefer interesting combinations: funk/out/brazilian/latin grooves/free/psychedelicavantfolkpop; all styles at once, even, i mean come on. lots of horns,yeah. call me, i have a drive-thru for arrangements. . PLAYED WITH Larry Willis, Kevin Ayers, Enrico Rava, The Negro Problem, Gene Bertoncini, Russell Kassoff, Giacomo Gates, Bobby Keys, Jimmy Ward, Ted Shumate, Longineau Parsons. went to Creative Music Studio & studied with (& did workshops and/or concerts with) Dave Holland, Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Ed Blackwell, Karl Berger, James Emery, Bob Moses, Don Cherry. film scoring & arranging. vegasy show bands, a rolling stones tribute band, 5 million blues & cover bands. Carey Fosse (the assortments). ulysses jenkins & othervisions. john e. edwards (is in love). currently playing w/ chief cherry, cadillac willy, stephanie pettis, marc harris, jimmy ward, stix & stones.
did a year & a half of improv classes and learned how to hold up a restaurant, for instance, walk into an Arby's and have everyone just completely floored and giving me their money. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 " a

My Interests

reluctant hippopotami

I'd like to meet:

Hermeto. tony williams. miles. my doppelganger. lester bowie. fritz lang. fritz weaver. fritz the cat. fulci. egberto gismonti. carla bley. bud spencer. mrs peel. john abercrombie. the chick on Lexx. some cows. robert wyatt. james brown. the one-armed swordsman. efram bosley. mike post and pete carpenter. whoever invented cap'n crunch. zsa-zsa gabor szabo. guido & maurizio deAngelus. david axelrod. hugo weaving just so he can order taco bell for me in the drive-thru w/ that voice. ruben rada. ennio morricone.

Music:

(see "about me")

Movies:

i watch too many movies. help me. euro-spy (Kommissr X fliks like "So Darling, So Deadly") sleaze. the Decalog. some mainstream action but not where they have a whooshing sound effect for every other cut or camera move. that just sucks. italian thrillers (giallos) like "What Have They Done To Solange". blaxploitation. certain asian filmakers like Miike who did "Ichi the Killer" & Fukimoto. the Oxide bros. Shaw bros. French new wave, Luc Besson, Fassbinder, Herzog, Italian police fliks from the 70's & 80's (the soundtracks too!) the lisp goes on.

Television:

brit tv. the office. avengers. prisoner. the protectors. most spy shows.
rockford files. rumpole. columbo. the kingdom. six feet under. the invaders. x files. get smart. man from uncle. twin peaks. my three sons. gomer pyle u.s.m.c.!! (the last 2 are regression therapy.)

Books:

in progress are: a collection of 'english country house murders'; Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac; "Music Universe, Music Mind" by Bob Sweet; "Raj, the making and unmaking of British India"; a biography on James Mason; a collection of russian short stories. "eaten alive-italian cannibal & zombie movies"

Heroes:

colonel sanders

My Blog

Walt Whitman Sampler

ok. i just thought that sounded good. Walt Whitman Sampler. probably a good name for an electronic music combo. i dunno.
Posted by pagano on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:20:00 PST

Eds Bike Place-scene II

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Posted by pagano on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:11:00 PST

Eds Bike Place with fake beginning

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Posted by pagano on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:12:00 PST

my big opinion

(a harsh critique continued from nowhere)......it's like the bacharach w/ other things.  it's OK to acknowledge someones greatness before they die.  it happens more these days with all the t...
Posted by pagano on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:06:00 PST

ongoing noetry

in the meaningless void of frenetic responsiblities i hereby remit the plasmatic urgencies one might find in a surplus of riviera hookers.  the sandbox has no sand.  chris the driver to...
Posted by pagano on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:30:00 PST

I actually sunday

i actually was off this fri/sat for a change.  went out to tom's (hipps, my stepdad) gig & then hit a couple other spots.  i'll be doing a regular friday night gig w/ the hippsmeist...
Posted by pagano on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:32:00 PST

X-mas blog

... It's christmas day and just 2 nights ago i spoke w/ Jabbo Starks (JB's drummer) at his house gig at the Red Bar in grayton beach. he was in unusually great spirits--i don't imagine he is...
Posted by pagano on Tue, 29 May 2007 09:09:00 PST

Stream-o Conciousness


Posted by pagano on Wed, 02 May 2007 03:51:00 PST

Baby Puke At Work

Be some county's mo-haired raconteur de force. parisian thoroughfare muscogee county. Bea Kemp's RV center. Sinner of the Universe. -hadn't gone my full course at Utah college vomitorium.  baby p...
Posted by pagano on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:29:00 PST

subbing for Jabbo

i love the Red Bar band and playing w/ them.  Jabbo's going to japan & i'll be at the red bar for him the last 2 weeks of april.  when i first met him i said something stupid l...
Posted by pagano on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:23:00 PST