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Allan

A continuous series of extenuating circumstances

About Me

big, bald, color-blind, overconfident, insecure, smart enough to be dumb.

Some links to sites that have something to do with me:

My Friendster page--I've stashed some pix there
My pix from the Galapagos Islands
Prince Jellyfish, one of many former bands
RockStar Karaoke, one of my current bands
my primary day-job
my secondary day-job
my ill-used mac.com space
more ill-used ISP space
The Big Guns, another former band

My Interests


Allan's Bands

SPAM
bass, backing vocals, co-writer
with Trey Johnson (guitar, vocals) , Colin McCarty (vocals) , Ted O'Loughlin (drums)
1984-1992
Crackbox
bass, backing vocals, co-writer
with Trey Johnson (guitar, vocals) , Colin McCarty (vocals) , Ted O'Loughlin (drums)
1992-1994
Vibrolux
bass
with Kim Pendleton (vocals) , Paul Quigg (guitar) , Bruce Alford (drums)
1994-1997
Sixty Six
bass, baritone guitar, backing vocals
with Bill Longhorse (vocals, guitar) , Nate Fowler, Toby Sheets (drums)
then with Bill Longhorse (vocals, guitar) , Gregg Prickett (guitar) , Bruce Alford (drums) , Keith Long (bass) br 1996-1997
Tablet
interim bass player
with Steven Holt, Paul Williams (guitar) , uhhh...Dave the drummer
1997
Garland
bass
with Crickett Taylor, Jonathan Lacey (guitar)
1997-1998
Floor 13
bass, backing vocals
with Winston Giles (vocals, guitar) , Duncan Black (drums) , Josh Weber (guitar)
1997-1998
Sushi Gabor
bass, backing vocals
with Jeff Halbert (vocals, guitar), Paul Williams (guitar) , Tommy Watts (drums)
1998-1999
Punk Rock Dinosaurs
bass, backing vocals
with Barry Kooda (vocals, guitar) , Jonathan Lacey (guitar, vocals) , Mike Haskins (guitar) , Russell Fleming (drums)
2001-2002
The Big Guns
bass, co-writer
with Mike Haskins (guitar) , Danny McCreary (guitar), Devin Gibson (drums)
2002-2004
Prince Jellyfish
bass, co-writer
with Jonathan Lacey (vocals, guitar) , Gregg Prickett (guitar) , Earl Darling (drums)
2002-2004
RockStar Karaoke
bass, backing vocals, soundman
with Howard Kelley (MC, vocals) , Jonathan Lacey (MC, guitar, bass, vocals) , Gregg Prickett (guitar) , Gerald Iragorri (drums) , Ed MacMahon (guitar), Bob (bass)
2003-current
The Darren Kozelsky Band
bass
with Darren Kozelsky (vocals, guitar) , Chris Claridy (guitar) , Bruce Alford (drums) , Jeremy (fiddle), Aaron Lyons (drums) 2004-2006
Punk Rock Dinosaurs
bass, backing vocals
with Barry Kooda (vocals, guitar) , Jonathan Lacey (guitar, vocals) , Mike Haskins (guitar) , Gerald Iragorri (drums)
2005-current

I'd like to meet:

almost anyone who's not trying to sell me something

Music:

I love to write, record, and perform music, but I'm not much of a fan. But what the hell (in no particular order): The Beatles, Bauhaus, The Clash, Pixies, The Jam, The Who, AC/DC, The Pretenders, Foo Fighters, Garbage, The Buzzcocks, Gang Of Four, The Cars, Devo, The Dead Kennedys, No Means No, XTC, Queens OF The Stone Age, Bob Mould, The Violent Femmes, Poe, Sorta, Smashing Pumpkins, lots more.

Movies:

Brazil, The Usual Suspects, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, more when I think of it...

Television:

In my dotage I've become a sucker for HBO original series: The Sopranos, The Wire, Carnivale, Deadwood, Rome. I used to like West Wing. I love PBS' Frontline.

Books:

yes

Heroes:

People who get to do what they love for a living, unless they're telemarketers or meter-maids.

My Blog

McMansion

I'm trying to figure out why the McMansion that has just been completed behind my house annoys me so much. It's not the fact that they've built a 2.5 story house in a neighborhood full of 1-story...
Posted by Allan on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:14:00 PST

The Ketchup Bottle Rule

I referred to "the ketchup" rule in a previous blog and attributed it to Rhett Miller via Barry Kooda.  A couple of people asked about it.  Here it is in Barry's words: Basically, I was bit...
Posted by Allan on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:46:00 PST

Hangin' up my (cowboy) boots for now

This will probably come as a shock to NOBODY: My tenure as a country bass player came to a close today. It seems they were eventually convinced of the obvious: that there were many dudes out there tha...
Posted by Allan on Wed, 31 May 2006 06:30:00 PST

SPAM, before our time

Patrick asked what happened to SPAM, in a long verbose nutshell, here it is: SPAM slugged it out for a few years until we got sued (for real, not just the 1987 threats) in 1991-1992 by Hormel for i...
Posted by Allan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST