Member Since: 3/26/2006
Band Members: Ian Trusheim- Bass guitar, Vocals, Composition.................................. Trevor Williams- Guitar, Vocals, Composition....................................... Brooks Long- Red Electric Guitar, Vocals, Blues harp, Composition................. Jake Deal - Red drums
Influences: In no order (although some names are placed around each other purposefully) and constantly growing: The Band, Grateful Dead, Oingo Boingo, James Brown, The Meters, Jaco Pastorius, Cowboy Jazz, Fat Shadow, The Beatles (and solo ventures), Dreams, Frank Zappa &/or the Mothers of Invention, Neil Young, The Funk Brothers, Bob Dylan, John Cage, Bob Marley & the Wailers, The Beach Boys, Buena Vista Social Club, James Brown (skadamoochy), Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Spirit, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd, Yes, Jethro Tull, Herbie Hancock, Danny Elfman, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Papa Grows Funk, Charles Mingus, George Clinton & The Parliment Funkadelic/Detroit Soul, Bootsy Collins, Ken Schweitzer, Tom Anthony, Beethoven, The Who, Vivaldi, John Dowland, Lafayette Gilchrist, Villa Lobos, Howlin' Wolf, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gilespie, Les Claypool, Medeski Martin & Wood, Stravinsky, George Gershwin, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, Randy Newman, Dusty Springfield, Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions, Derek Trucks Band, Carol King, Phil Spector, Tom Dowd, Booker T. and the MG's, Santana, Louis Armstrong, Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels, Warren Zevon, Rage Against the Machine, Soulive, They Might Be Giants, John Scofield, Spontaneous Underground, Syd Barret, Smashing Pumpkins, Stevie Wonder, Steve Kimock, Steve Bartek, Steely Dan, Spinal Tap, Led Zeppelin, Sting, David Bowie, Muddy Waters, Timothy Leary, Jefferson Airplane, Mamas & the Papas, The Ethiopiques, Robert Johnson, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Nick Drake, Galactic, The Doors, Van Morrison, Disco Biscuits, Paul Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Polaris, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, The Kinks, The Temptations, Earth Wind & Fire, Chic Corea, The Police, Dr. John, Junior Brown, Elvis Costello, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Los Lobos, Seizmic Sanchez, The Juicy Chops, Jeff Beck, The Yardbirds, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Electric Light Orchestra, Phish, XTC, Chester River Runoff, Blues Traveller, The B-52's, Astralyte, Traveling Wilburys, Weird Al Yankovich, Allman Brothers, SCI, JGB, DMB, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, Crosby Stills & Nash, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Dave Brubeck, The Decemberists, The New Deal, The Zombies, Weather Report, Eyeball Skeleton, Sly & the Family Stone, Bernard Herrman, Tower of Power, Deep Banana Blackout, Bomb Squad, Sarah Vaughan, Gov't Mule, Widespread Panic, The Clash, Squeeze, Cake, Paul Simon (& Garfunkel), Tod Rundgren, Oldguard, John Williams, Ravi Shankar, U2, Radiohead, Wu Tang Clan, Timbaland (without the rapping so much), Elton John, Prince, Queen, Beck, David Lindley, The Pixies, Steely Dan, Little Feat, Jimi Hendrix Experience/Band of Gypsies, David Grisman Quintet, Flight of the Conchords, Tony Rice, Sea Level, Eric Clapton, Cream, Blind Faith, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Talking Heads, Public Enemy, King Crimson, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground. every combination of sound and silence. African, Afro-Cuban, Baroque, Bluegrass, Blues, Bop, Classical, Classic Rock, Country, Creole (food and music), Doo Wop, Electronica, Experimental, Folk, Funk, Gospel, Hip-Hop, Indian Classical, Jam, Jazz, Improvisational Rock and Roll, Live House, Motown, old school R &/or B, Middle Eastern, Nintendo music such as in Super Mario Bros, Zelda and Tetris, Soul, Tribal Trance, Tao, Ghandi, Dolemite, MLK, Buddha, Kids in the Hall, Jack Keroac, Allen Ginsberg, Phillip K. Dick, Hermann Hesse, Heraclitus, Boba Fett, Martin Scorsese, Master Splinter, Quentin Tarentino, Tim Burton, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S Lewis, Paulo Cohelo, Mel Brooks, Kevin Smith, Woody Allen, The Cohen Brothers, Snakes on a Plane, Sacha Baron Cohen, Richard Linklater, N64 Kid, George Lucas, Cal Ripken Jr., Matt Groening, Brendan Small, Larry David, Christopher Guest, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kuraosawa, Milan Kundera, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Chinese Brush Painting, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Lebowski's Little Urban acheivers, Homer (the epic poet and the Simpson), 60 Minutes, The Kitchen (specifically spicy mustard & green beans), Philosophy, Literature, Cinema, the Visual Arts, Humanism, Existentialism, flux, dynamic interconnection, Friends and Family, Dr. Emmet Brown, Kenny Haddaway, Back to the Future, the sounds of the world/ the sounds (and voices) in our heads.
Sounds Like: THE BIG PICTURE.All songs written and performed by: THE BIG PICTURE - THE BIG PICTURE is Jake Deal, Brooks Long, Ian Trusheim, Trevor Williams. Copyright © 2006.
Type of Label: None