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About Me

"Some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little, piece by piece
Some guys come home from work and wash up
And go racin' in the street" -- Bruce Springsteen

The Simoleons are sort of like that except we dont wash up and we play music -- sometimes literally in the street, but mostly indoors.

What are Simoleons? Simoleons are Lanny Fiegenschuh and I. We play some great music!! I write a lot of it. We also do original arrangements of tunes familiar and obscure.

I hope The Simoleons will get to play for you sometime and you like our art.

All content on this page not otherwise credited is generated or ripped off by me.

Keep the Faith Baby!

Ray Wyssmann

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/02/2006
Band Website: You are looking at it!!!
Band Members: Ray Wyssmann -- vocal, guitar, mandolin, uke, and strange guttural noises.

Lanny Fiegenschuh -- harmonicas, accordion, dojo, uke, weisenborn, and additional noises.
Influences: It's a long story. Please check out the "Under the Influence" blog entry.

Please check out our "Friends." We don't shotgun requests to everybody possible. Most of the links are to pages put up by our actual friends, and/or music we like. Hope you find some music you enjoy!!!
Sounds Like: Hopefully, something you like.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The Future Beyond the End

Coyote Roy's Notes from the Subterrestrial Rim: The Future Beyond The End Sometimes I feel stranded on a desolate plain, where the wind rips the soles of my shoes. It tears my eyes, howls in my...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:25:00 GMT

King of Oklahoma on the radio!

Coyote Roy's Notes from the Subterrestrial Rim: King of Oklahoma on the radio! I missed it completely, but Kent Anderson at KCSC 90.1 FM (Public Radio in Oklahoma City) played a Simoleons tune on his ...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 14:07:00 GMT

Chrono-synclastic Infundibulum

Coyote Roy's Notes from the Subterrestrial Rim:Chrono-synclastic Infundibulum:"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."That is how Slaughterhouse 5 begins. It was my first introduction ...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:27:00 GMT

Ukulele Crimes

Coyote Roy's Notes from the Subterrestrial Rim: Ukulele Crimes: I am surprised since joining MySpace that there is such a lively ukulele community going across the country. I dont...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:16:00 GMT

Under the Influence

Coyote Roy's Notes from the Subterrestrial Rim: Under The Influence I read a blurb about Lester "The Prez" Young on the internet recently. Lester played saxophone with Count Basie and Bi...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:32:00 GMT

The Pinstriped Man

Coyote Roy's Notes from the Subterrestrial Rim: The Pinstriped Man. I love stories about Western Swing pioneer Bob Wills. Living in Oklahoma, I run into a lot of people who heard Wills d...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:09:00 GMT

Quote of the Day

Coyote Roy's Notes from the Subterrestrial Rim: "The imminence of one's own death, silly. We see that yesterday is our birthday, today is our life, and tomorrow we are gone. So we have just one day t...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:59:00 GMT

The Truth About The Truth

Coyote Roy's Notes from the Subterrestrial Rim: You have to tell the truth every day but you don't have to volunteer the whole truth and you don't have to tell it to everybody.
Posted by on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:01:00 GMT

Further Thoughts on the Art of Songwriting

Coyote Roy's Notes from the Subterrestrial Rim: There once was an artist named Ken Kesey. He was a writer and used metaphors in his work. Ken Kesey participated in a study of hallucinatory drugs. He ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:31:00 GMT