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About Me

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Spanning 30+ years, with 19 different band members slipping in and out of the strong yet, gentle grasp of this Texas based ensemble, HANDS has weathered the eternally fickle, sometimes rewarding and oh so cruelly entertaining dung storm...otherwise known as the music business. While disregarding any notion of establishing parameters for their unique sound, there has always been a sort of invisible template if you will, that keeps the group's classical/jazz/rock, art-popping old school progressive stylings "slightly" to the left of center.

Discography:
HANDS (single - 1978 JD&D Records)
HANDS (1996 Shroom)
PRISM Live 75-77 (1996 Shroom)
PALM MYSTERY (1998 Shroom)
HANDS The Early Years 1974-76 (2000 Shroom)
HANDS (reissue - 2002 Shroom)
TWENTY FIVE WINTERS (2002 Wheelhouse)
Twenty-Five Winters on iTunes
Twenty-Five Winters CD on DGM (select "Hands" under Current Category)
STRANGELET (2008 Wheelhouse)
Strangelet on iTunes

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/24/2006
Band Website: hands.wheelhouse-music.com
Band Members: the current lineup...

michael clay: piano, keyboards, guitar, alto sax
mark cook: Warr Guitar
john fiveash: drum kit, vocals
martin mccall: drums, percussion
ernie myers: vocals, guitar
steve powell: bass, keyboards, vocals

the hands of time...

mark austin: bass & vocals
mike barreyre: guitar
rex bozarth: bass, Chapman Stick, cello, vocals
paul bunker: viola, Vitar, cuatro, guitar
david carlisle (R.I.P.): bass
shannon day: piano, keyboards
skip durbin: woodwinds
mark menikos: violin, mandolin, acoustic guitar
steve parker: vocals, bass, keyboards, acoustic guitar
tom reed: vocals
john rousseau: drums, percussion
sonny solell: woodwinds, vocals
gary stone: vocals

behind the curtain:

bob "long pig" dixon: recordist, sampler and candlestick maker

steve "I have a piece in the Guggenheim" dennie: artist, designer, photographer and Comet chaser

bobby "first edition" greeson: designer, videographer and cast member of "Survivor - Antarctica"

vincent baboon: band consultant

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please check out these related musical vehicles:

All the Tea in China
Fission Trip
The Elements
Long Pig

Influences: King Crimson
YES
Gentle Giant
Beethoven
XTC
The Beatles
10cc
Frank Zappa
Split Enz
Jethro Tull
The Moody Blues
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Weather Report
Return to Forever
Neil Young
PFM
Spirit
Zecharia Sitchin
Sounds Like: a small, somewhat educated crowd of people being stung to death by a hundred thousand hornets during a mild typhoon
Record Label: Wheelhouse Publishing
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Liner Notes for STRANGELET

Produced by: Ernie Myers and Steve Powell Recorded at: Luminous Sound - Dallas, Texas engineer: Chris BellCryst...
Posted by HANDS on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:22:00 PST

Progressive Prognostication

For those of you who don't know (and why should you?), I get my second sight directly from my fat, black cat Samantha (aka: The Gravy Seal, Furry 'O Fats, Morgan Fur Child and The Velvet Princess).Eve...
Posted by HANDS on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:07:00 PST

Revelations

No, this is not going to be a diatribe on Christianity, or questionable (of which there are many if not all) parts of the Bible...we'll save that for a later time. :-) These revelations, if you will, ...
Posted by HANDS on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:25:00 PST

I Me Mine Space

Even though I'm relatively new to the MySpace game I have a few observations and questions about said "space" which I'd like to share with and/or ask the five of you who might actually take the time t...
Posted by HANDS on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:32:00 PST

Happy Friday the 13th!!!

Here's hoping you have a fun-filled, Jason-tinged experience replete with scary echoes, hockey masks (Go...Dallas...STARS) and awkward teenager-like sex followed by a moonlit machete party. After all,...
Posted by HANDS on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:48:00 PST