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Nico

"These are the roots of rhythm and the roots of rhythm remain." -Paul Simon/Under African Skies

About Me

I love all kinds of music, especially rock and roll and Latin jazz.I am a percussionist and love playing my drums when ever and where ever I can. I play percussion full time with Blue Remedy, but there are a number of other bands around Atlanta and Athens that I'll sit in with occasionally. Other than music I love football, history and keeping up with politics and current events in our country and in the rest of the world.Drums! Another Fiasco@Nowhere Bar in Athens

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My Interests

Music, History, Drums, Sports, Theology, Percussion, Rock and Roll, Good Times, Travel, Different Cultures, Legends, Rhythms, Knowledge, Relaxation

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I'd like to meet:

Jesus Christ, Paul Simon, Giovanni Hidalgo, John Candy, George Washington, St. Francis of Assisi, Bill Murray, Levon Helm, Poncho Sanchez, Herschel Walker, Plato, John Madden, St. Dominic, Herbie Hancock, Brett Favre, Dan Aykroyd, Karl Marx, Steve Colbert, Ray Barreto, Champ Bailey, Benjamin Franklin, John Bell, Johnny Depp, Warrick Dunn, Paul McCartney, Vince Vaughn, Muhammed, Jerry Rice, JRR Tolkein, Martin Luther King Jr., David Gilmour, Babe Ruth, Robert Johnson, Joe Montana, Abe Lincoln, Mikey Houser, Moses, Mickey Hart, Dizzy Gillespie, Emmit Smith, Mahatma Gandhi, Armando Peraza, Chris Farley, Hines Ward, Mongo Santamaria, Edgar Allen Poe, St. Thomas Aquinas, Tito Puente, Peyton Manning, Michael Keaton, Ronald Regan, Rickey Henderson, Chano Pozo, Aristotle, John F. Kennedy, Ruben Blades, Jim Webb, Vince Lombardi, Richie Gajate Garcia, Alexander the Great, Rudy Giuliani, Alge Crumpler, St. Paul of Tarsus, Johnny Cash, Jackie Robinson, Bill O'Reilly, Bobby Kennedy, Mother Teresa, Simon Bolivar, Harold Ramis, Franklin D Roosevelt, Robbie Roberson, Steve Young, John Bonham and Dennis Leary, (Its quite an assorted cast of characters)

Music:

Paul Simon, Widespread Panic, Bob Marley, The Band, Curtis Mayfield, Carlos Vives, Bill Withers, Pearl Jam, Mongo Santamaria, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Fania Allstars, Mofro, Poncho Sanchez, Drive By Truckers, Ben Harper, Robert Johnson, Tito Puente, A Tribe Called Quest, Orquesta Grogus, Bishop Don, ANOTHER FIASCO!!! and anything that feels good and has soul.
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Movies:

Ghostbusters, The Last Waltz, Swingers, Donnie Brasco, Beverly Hills Cop 1&2, Back to the Future,Dennis Leary's No Cure For Cancer, Groundhog Day, JFK, Top Gun,Life, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,What About Bob?
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Television:

College and Professional Football, just about everything on the History, Discovery and National Geographic Channels, all of the Law and Orders (especially CI)

Books:

High Noon In The Cold War-Max Frenkel,African Rhythm and African Sensibility-John Miller Chernoff,The Things They Carried-Tim O'Brian,National Rhythms African Roots-John Charles Chasteen,Fire In A Canebrake-Laura Wexler,1968 In America-Charles Kaiser, Sundiata (an old epic from Mali), and of course the Bible

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Martha Rodriguez-Gregg (Mom), Martin Luther King Jr, Mongo Santamaria, Giovanni Hidalgo, Poncho Sanchez, Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, Ray Barreto, Ramon and Cecilia Rodriguez, Marina "Tita" Urrea, Paul Simon, Levon Helm and Leon Mobley