Member Since: 11/23/2004
Band Website: tomhuckabee.com
Band Members: THE DeCORDS: Andy Fuertsch & Tom Huckabee; THE REVERSIBLE CORDS: Bert Crews, Lynn Keller, Doug McAninch & Tom Huckabee, (originally Ty Gavin on drums) THE HUNS: Phil Tolstead, Dan Transmission, John Burton, Joel Richardson & Tom Huckabee (originally Manny Rosario on guitar)
Influences: PEOPLE: Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Wm. Burroughs, Wm. Blake, Omar Khayyam, Shakespeare, Rainer Rilke, Tim Leary, Abe Lincoln, Jesus, Dr. Joseph Warren, Rembrandt, Perkins Harnley, Lord Buckley, Rumi; Ghandi; Darwin; Anne and Sasha Shulgin; Tarkovsky; John Lennon; Roky Erickson; Barbara Mae Cohen; Dr. Richard Cohen; Joe Kruppa ; Bert Crews; Rocky Schenck; Bucks Burnett; George Jackson; Bob Dylan; Socrates; J.S. Bach; Ben Franklin; Goethe; John Paxton; Dan Huckabee; Picasso; Dali; Magritte; Manet; Van Gogh; Yoko Ono; Rauchenberg; Okeefe; John Lydon; John Cale; Andy Warhol; Jim Morrison; My grandmother; My grandfather Ezekiel Hugh Huckabee; Brian EnoMOVIES: Andre Rublev, Freebie and the Bean, Zardoz, Viva La Muerte, In the Realm of the Senses; Zaccariah, an Electric Western; Macbeth ( Polanski's), Warhol's Frankenstein, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Music Lovers; California Split, Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Killer Elite, Meshes in the Afternoon, The General (Buster Keaton), Dog Star Man, Fireworks (Kenneth Anger). Seance on a Wet Afternoon, La Strada, Irreversible, The Smartest Guys in the Room, The Exterminating Angel, Salo, Querelle; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Frailty: Thirteen, Persona, The Player, The Rapture, Traveller, Bugs Life; Toy Story; School of Rock; Paths of Glory; 2001; Taylor of Panama; Bride and Prejudice; Quest for Fire; Seven Samurai; Stop Making Sense, Crazy Mama; Crank; Silence of the Lambs; King of Comedy; Apocalypse Now; The Wedding CrashersTELEVISION: Meerkat MannerMUSIC: The Beatles; Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols; Morcheeba, The Volares, Belle & Sebastian, Nick Drake, The Doors, Vivaldi; Bach; Gurdjieff/DeHartman; Bob Marley; The Dead; The Stones; Byrds; Animals; Howlin Wolf; Captain Beefheart; Cab Colloway; The Dicks; John Cale; Beach Boys; Sufjan Stevens; ; The Murmurs; Keith Jarrett; The Foams; Devo; Talking Heads; Nirvana; Hendrix; Joplin; Bowie; Bob Schneider; Al Green (sacred & profane)BOOKS: In Search of the Miraculous; Sonnets to Orpheus; The Fifth Child; Man's Fate; Steppenwolf; The Nero Prediction; As I Lay Dying; Billy Budd; Bartleby the Scrivener; Rabbi Jesus; Perfume: Story of a Murderer; Sexual Personae; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Leaves of Grass; The Holy Bible; The Boomer Bible; The Story of the Eye; Twain's Letters to the Earth...
Sounds Like: THE REVERSIBLE CORDS sound like B-52s, X-Ray Specs, Weil and Brecht; Violent Femmes, The Murmurs and Daniel Johnston. THE HUNS sound like a pack of amplified coyotes killing a possum. THE DECORDS sound like the Reversible Cords and The Delinquents
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