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Robert Edward Stimpson

The cause not the cure

About Me

Making sweet noise since 1977. Producer and procurer of fine rhythms and melodic delight when alone in the murky depths of the Rogue Studio or as a rusty cog in the gears for the likes of Gravel, LunarMile and The Sentinel. Eats photograpghy, drinks paint, sweats film. Loses keys regularly. Available for children’s parties and bar mitzvahs.Check out my flickr site. Or check out my photos at ephotozine

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/18/2006
Band Members: Robert Edward Stimpson Voices, Guitars, Drums, Piano/Keys, SoundsOccasional help from: Richie Barker Bass Paul Reynolds Guitar/Vocals Camel Vocals Alex Hill BassRobert Jones Guitar
Videos:Video 1 - You need itVideo 2 - Breaking promisesVideo 3 - Plan BVideo 4 - 'Song 1'Video 5 - Go 'way from my window
Influences: Musical Jim Hall, Neil Young, Mark Lanegan, Bert Jansch, Eric Matthews, Syd Barrett: George Drakoulias, James Brown: Chester Road, Davy Graham, Phil Spector, Jeff Buckley: Evan Dando, Joan Baez, Steven Drozd, Otis Redding, Zoot Horn Rollo, Gene Krupa, Pentangle, Authur Lee: Robert Wyatt, The Tea Party, George Clinton, Django Reinheart, Dave Fridmann, Chris Goss, Lazarus Yelpy, Joe Meek, Rory Gallagher: DJ Shadow, The Mars Volta, Bill Withers Spooky Tooth, Polar Bear, Buddy Rich, John Jacob Niles, Eddie Floyd.
WritersFriedrich Nietzsche, Freeman Dyson, Arthur Schopenhaur, Yann Martel, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, J.K. Rowling, Chinua Achebe.
Artists Francisco de Goya, Simon Norfolk www.simonnorfolk.com .Hyung-Geun Park, Jim Bird, William Hogarth, Richard Billingham, Hannah Maybank, Conrad Shawcross. -all found (at one point or another) at The New Art Gallery, Walsall .
Sounds Like: Rain on the roof of a burning orphanage.
Visit These!: I play drums for LunarMile www.lunarmile.com
I also produced the "Recycle your pets" E.P. for Hookjaw
And these guys rock quite nicely too.
I am also most fortunate to live near this great place... The New Art Gallery, Walsall


Record Label: Rupestral Records
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi

Well, this month has brought the sad demise of LunarMile. And just writing that prompted me to count up the number of bands I've managed to depart from in the last 15 years... a grand total of 20...
Posted by Robert Edward Stimpson on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:30:00 PST

New video! You need it, (Its not the cure, its the cause)

Well, as I can't upload any more than 6 songs onto MySpace, I thought I may as well go overboard and do a video for my new tune "You need it". Not that it would be interesting for anyone to know but i...
Posted by Robert Edward Stimpson on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:11:00 PST

Happy new year, happy new song..."Waiting for an answer"

Been hacking away at Cubase over the last few days to put a new tune together "waiting for an answer", you may already have been blasted by it when you hit my profile, sorry 'bout that. Been trying o...
Posted by Robert Edward Stimpson on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 03:49:00 PST

Tora, Tora, Tama

News of interest to nobody but myself, but today I wave goodbye to my trusty Tama Rockstar that I've hauled around the country for the past 12 years. It's off to get even more of a bashing from Savage...
Posted by Robert Edward Stimpson on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:58:00 PST

Breaking promises

Was particularly bored this week so I dusted of my ancient web cam and knocked together a quick song and video. These things always seem like a good idea at the time and then turn into rediculous, ted...
Posted by Robert Edward Stimpson on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:57:00 PST

Top tune of 2007 (so far)

Not usually the type who blogs on about how much I like bands. But this tune gets better the more I play it... 'That kind of man' by The Heavy (note the lefty guitarist, go lefties!) Oh ye...
Posted by Robert Edward Stimpson on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:42:00 PST

Waking up in my bed

Another tune posted up today for your listening organs. 'Waking up in my bed' featuring the talents of Richie Barker once again on bass and my esteemed, erstwhile Gravel bandmate Robert Jones on lead ...
Posted by Robert Edward Stimpson on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:49:00 PST

Pilton mud festival

It came; it rained; it went. Had a great time at Glastonbury over the past week. Missed most of the bands I'd planned to see thanks to distractions aplenty but did see Rufus Wainright's fantastic set ...
Posted by Robert Edward Stimpson on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:50:00 PST

Nunc est bibendum

A change of profile layout today, I must be bored; I've added a bazillion pics (including my newly polished head, no doubt giving Dame picture commenting ammunition for months) and a&nb...
Posted by Robert Edward Stimpson on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:54:00 PST

Mighty Acrolitie

Here she is... I spent half of today taking apart and re-building my 60's Ludwig LM404. Re fitted all the lugs, replaced a hoop, new heads, shiny new DW wires and a polish.... I have no life. A...
Posted by Robert Edward Stimpson on Sun, 20 May 2007 01:07:00 PST