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About Me

I'm involved in a few things. Like way too many people, I really like guitars. After all this time I remain satisfied by plugging a guitar in and making it go "yagadang". I play all sorts of these guitars including steel and pedal steel ones and I sing a bit too. I also really like aeroplanes and flying them. I'm just about through a commercial pilot licence rating. If it aint music, it's thinking about, and flying about in aeroplanes. I also enjoy torturing myself on road cycles and trying to go further and further. And I like growing veges.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/02/2006
Band Website: This one, also check gig listings for band sites
Band Members: Entirely dependant on the band innit?
Influences: rock country classical metal aussie-punk Jaaaaaaaammmeesss Brooooowwwwwn!!! The 'Oo, Pink Floyd, Stones, Radio Birdman, Neil Young, AC/DC, Rush, Swing era jazz and some be-bop, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Basie, Ellington, Stravinsky, Mozart, Holst. Townshend, Roger Waters, The High Llama, Jeff F, Neko Case, Little Feat and Lowell George, Turbonegro, Hellacopters, Sinead Lohan, Albert Lee, Steve Vai, Alex Lifeson, Wanita, Led Zep and J Page, Zappa, Sabbath, You Am I, The Celibate Rifles, David Gilmour, Daevid Allen, Elton, The Jam, Elvis Costello, R.A.M.O.N.E.S. , Pantera, Dr. John, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Flight of the Conchords, Andrew Hull, Tonchi McIntosh, Sarah "MF" Caroll, all my peers, those long distant yet such fun uni days of '93 to '95/96, Fat Brian, Rindo's wine and grappa, Pho, Savvy D's cooking and... ahhh... I'll get back to you.
Sounds Like: see influences
Record Label: Croxton Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

CMF -09

Yeah yeah yeah. That was the country music fest. As usual it was hot enough to roast a lizard on the street outside my house but the good times rolled by for yet another year. In what was my 8th conse...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:31:00 GMT

Gigging, Flying and Rain

Elsewhere in this blog I have bemoaned the absense of rain around these parts and the abject stupidity that seems to accompany the basic fact that without water were all screwed. Well its been raining...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:24:00 GMT

Vale Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

One of my heros has passed on - or as he seems to have viewed it, has been set free. See www.vonnegut.com for this notion. I was only watching a dog-eared VHS tape of the movie of his book Slaughterh...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:55:00 GMT

Sarah Carroll and the Unconsious Bros at the Greyhound

Here's a link to tim Chuma's pix from last weekend. This is great band. Only three shows and it was crackin along. Fred Negro even put us in the latest pub strip without utilising to his customary pic...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:26:00 GMT

Guitars - JUST guitars

This is just a quick one to inform anybody out there who are interested in (assume Paul Stanley type stage banter voice NOW...) LEED GITARRRRWWW - or any type of guitar for that matter. I want to aim ...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:12:00 GMT

Where's the water?

The world is simply loaded with geniuses. They're everywhere. Nowhere are are these people more common than in the various councils, politcal parties and ministries of planning that show us the way an...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:18:00 GMT

country music fest is hot

Damn the summer. Damn the heat. I cant sleep. Icelands lookin good. Greenland seems sweet.
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:37:00 GMT

soul power

Folks, I must say a word or two about the passing of the godfather of soul, Mr. James Brown. I and many others had the privilage of seeing him perform at the 2004 east Coast Blues Festival in Byron Ba...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:01:00 GMT

The calm before the storm

This is the first time I've had bugger all to do since the start of the year last year. I believe it was my busiest year to date. Anyway, a few days off and already Im sitting around wondering what to...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:46:00 GMT

Melbourne

Great stuff it is down here. Did a gig with the awesome Tonchi McIntosh at the the Marquis of Lorne. It was an honour for me to do this cause in the band we had Jonno the beatbox man and the one and o...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:31:00 GMT