Dan Paton

Music:

Member Since: 28/03/2006
Band Website: http://www.inleaguewithpaton.blogspot.com
Influences:

Drummers: Jack De Johnette, Tony Williams, Roy Haynes, Bernard Purdie, Paul Motian, Elvin Jones, Billy Cobham, Harvey Mason, Billy Higgins, Steve Gadd, Jimmy Chamberlain, Janet Weiss, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Buddy Rich, Rashied Ali, Peter Erskine, Seb Rochford, Paul Clarvis, Tom Skinner, Ben Bryant, Nate Smith, Jaki Liebzeit, Troy Miller, Bradley Webb, Dannie Richmond, Lenny White, Billy Kilson, Jim Keltner, Pete Thomas, Ringo (no, seriously - listen but ignore his lack of technique), Mark Mondesir, Chad Smith (RHCP are a profoundly dull band but Chad is a great drummer), Levon Helm, Gilson Lavis, Steve Ferrone, Glenn Kotche, Ginger Baker, Jon Hiseman, Manu Katche, Joseph 'Zigaboo' Modeliste, George Receli, Joshua Blackmore, Joey Baron, Tom Rainey, Tim Giles

Music Generally: I could go on forever, and I will.... Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Return To Forever, George Russell, Ian Carr's Nucleus, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Nina Simone, Bjork, The O'Jays and the whole Philly Soul Sound, The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, David Byrne, Bob Dylan, The Band, Peter Gabriel, The Meters, Jamie Lidell, Matthew Herbert, REM, Depeche Mode, The Smiths and Morrissey, Flaming Lips, Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear, Hot Chip, Matthew Herbert, Matmos, The Books, The Microphones, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Andrew Hill, Big Star, Teenage Fanclub, The Lemonheads, Calexico, Iron and Wine, Bruce Springsteen, Television, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Marvin Gaye, Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, Can, Peter Gabriel, Herbie Hancock, Funkadelic and Parliament, Sly and The Family Stone, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, PiL, Mahavishnu Orchestra, John Martyn, Grace Jones, The Hidden Cameras, Smog, Lou Barlow, Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, Tricky, Massive Attack, Portishead, Cannibal Ox, Company Flow, The Roots, D'Angelo, John Cale, Kraftwerk, Arthur Russell, The Congos, Judee Sill, Emmylou Harris, XTC, Al Green, Warren Zevon, John Prine, Toots and the Maytals, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, Devo, Lambchop, Broken Social Scene, Talk Talk, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, The Associates and Billy MacKenzie, DJ Shadow (although The Outsider is complete cack), Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Spiritualized, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, Sam Cooke, Willie Hightower, Candi Staton, Bettye Lavette, Chairmen Of The Board, Magnetic Fields, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Dave Holland, Dave Liebman, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Tom Waits, Pavement, Johnny Cash, OutKast, Plush, Tim Buckley, Dr. Dre, Yo La Tengo, PJ Harvey, Arvo Part, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Bach, Erik Satie, Gyorgy Ligeti, Rachmaninov, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Max Richter, Ennio Morricone, Aphex Twin, Tortoise, Salif Keita, Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate, Undisputed Truth, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Billy Bragg, Low, Pet Shop Boys, Wilco, Madonna, Nick Cave, Afghan Whigs, Scott Walker, Super Furry Animals, Sleater Kinney, Pat Metheny, Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Jim O'Rourke, Orbital, Cat Power, Mark Kozelek, Dusty Springfield, Oliver Nelson, John Scofield, Squarepusher, Pulp, Madlib, MF Doom, The Boo Radleys, Fine Young Cannibals, The Triffids, AC/DC, Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Sun Ra, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Arcade Fire, Brian Wilson/Beach Boys, Jimmy Webb, Donna Summer, Beck, The Notwist, Animal Collective, Songs:Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co./Jason Molina, Kate Bush, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, The Bad Plus, Daft Punk, Four Tet, Prince, Solomon Burke, Rufus Wainwright, Gillian Welch, Broadcast, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, Ralph Towner, Joe Henderson, Eric Dolphy, Larry Young, Gil Evans, Chris Potter's Underground, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Weather Report, Aretha Franklin, Jaco Pastorias, Terje Rypdal, Finn Peters, Neil Cowley, Andrew McCormack, Mark Holub and Led Bib, Outhouse, Jim Hart and Gemini, Bill Frisell, Horace Silver, Otis Redding, Duke Ellington, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Millie Jackson (pre-obscenity period), Betty Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, McCoy Tyner, Dr. John, Lee Morgan, Isaac Hayes, Ray Charles, The Cure, Dinosaur Jr., Broken Family Band, NERD and The Neptunes, This Heat, David Sylvian, Fennesz, New Order, Bloc Party, Shy Child, LCD Soundsystem, Subtle, Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra,...so much more

Film-makers and Films: Ghostbusters (a truly masterful satire on the economic and political experience of Reagan-era America), Terence Davies (all his films are masterpieces in their own way, yet he can't get funding here in the UK for another project, absolutely scandalous), Theo Angelopolous, Andrei Tarkovsky, Krysztof Kieslowski, Coen Brothers, Woody Allen (esp Crimes and Misdemeanours and Manhattan), Ingmar Bergman (esp Cries and Whispers, Persona, The Seventh Seal, Autumn Sonata), Wong Kar Wai, Laurent Cantet (Time Out is a profound statement on modern work culture), Akira Kurosawa (esp Throne Of Blood, Ran, Seven Samurai), Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard (not the pretentious later stuff), Alexander Payne, Sam Peckinpah (Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, Ride The High Country, The Wild Bunch), Jim Jarmusch (esp Night On Earth and Down By Law), Orson Welles (I'm more of a Touch Of Evil than a Citizen Kane man), Alfred Hitchcock (esp Vertigo), Billy Wilder (esp Sunset Boulevard, Double Jeopardy and The Apartment), Francis Ford Coppola (esp The Conversation), Roman Polanski (esp Repulsion), Dodgeball (no, really), Miklos Jancso (The Red and The White, The Round Up), Derek Jarman (esp The Last of England), Pedro Almodovar (esp Talk To Her, one of the true contemporary masterpieces), Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove yes, 2001 a big no!), Park Chan-Wook (esp Old Boy, a far more substantial revenge film than Tarantino's ghastly Kill Bill), Kim Ki-Duk (prefer the gentler paced 3-Iron to the extreme stuff), Michael Mann, Kenji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Teshigahari (esp Woman of The Dunes), Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour), Jean Cocteau (Orphee, La Belle et la Bete), Richard Linklater (I adore A Skanner Darkly and Dazed and Confused, but Tape is one of the worst films I've ever seen, go figure), David Lynch (esp Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet), Robert Bresson (Pickpocket, L'Argent), Claire Denis (Beau Travail, Vendredi Soir, The Intruder), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Fear Eats The Soul, Querelle), Stephen Frears (much underrated!), Michael Haneke (Hidden, Time Of The Wolf, Code Unknown, Funny Games), Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser, Woyzeck, Grizzly Man, Aguirre - Wrath Of God), Wim Wenders (Kings Of The Road, Paris, Texas, Wings Of Desire), Abbas Kiarostami (esp Close Up and The Wind May Carry Us), Emir Kusturica, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Jean-Pierre Melville (Bob le Flambeur, The Red Circle), Jean Renoir, Satyajit Ray, Gus Van Sant (esp My Own Private Idaho and Elephant - if you don't get these films try and try again), Tsai Ming-Liang (completely unlike any filmmaker in the western world), Bela Tarr (esp Satantango and Werckmeister Harmonies, the spirit of medieval chronicles in modern Eastern Europe!), Edward Yang (A One and A Two, A Brighter Summer Day), Hou Hsiao-Hsien (A City of Sadness, Three Times), Jafar Panahi (Offside), John Cassavetes (Faces, Shadows, The Killing of A Chinese Bookie)

Literature: Walt Whitman, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, Patrick White, J.M. Coetzee, Cormac McCarthy, Richard Yates, Richard Ford, WG Sebald, Alan Hollinghurst, AM Homes, Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jose Saramago, Haruki Murakami, Colm Toibin, Franz Kafka, F Scott Fitzgerald, Jonathan Raban, John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Kazuo Ishiguro