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Ray

Kick Those White Mice And Baboons Out!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Robert Wyatt

Music:

Leon Russell And The Shelter People

Movies:

Barfly, Brazil, Time Bandits, Watch Me Jumpstart, The Right Stuff, The Royal Tennenbaums, etc.

Television:

Richard Lloyd, Tom Verlaine, Fred Smith, Billy Ficca, Richard Hell

Books:

Please Kill Me, Shakey, Many Years From Now, Our Band Could Be Your Life

Heroes:

No More Heroes Anymore

My Blog

Drums Au-Go-Go

Another post of technical mumbo jumbo and consumer reports type investigation... Since the band is on hiatus with our big studio move, I brought all my drum crap back to the basement at home. Lots o...
Posted by Ray on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:23:00 PST

I'm a Fool & I Deserve What I Get

See previous blog "Record Boy Does It Again"... I must think I'm so frigging cool... Well, I deserve what I get because my jaw dropped @ Vintage Vinyl the other day when I stumbled upon a 2006 REMASTE...
Posted by Ray on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:55:00 PST

Kenny Chambers - The Golden Arrows

Hey, had to correct this blog because the link was messed up. Gotta give props. Check out Kenny Chambers' new group, The Golden Arrows, featuring fellow Moving Targets alumni Chuck Freeman...The Gol...
Posted by Ray on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:51:00 PST

Nix, Nought, Nothing

I pulled this from the Stiffs Incorporated MySpace page - This IS definitely a record that time forgot...the reviewer now praising the band, after the fact, even going as far as admitting that he didn...
Posted by Ray on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:13:00 PST

The End Of An Era

So my Sony double tape deck crapped out today. The thing ain't that old, either. I was about to make a tape of a Left Banke comp LP I picked up at the Record Exchange last week and the damn thing go...
Posted by Ray on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:48:00 PST

DRUMS FOR SALE

I'm gonna be selling some gear on ebay - smaller, easily ship-able stuff...but I'm thinking of selling my 'larger size' Ludwig black sparkle kit, too, but I don't know if I wanna deal with shipp...
Posted by Ray on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:19:00 PST

I Often Dream Of Trains

From the Museum Of Robyn Hitchcock: We obtained some of the out-of-print Robyn Hitchcock CD, "I Often Dream ofTrains." This is the Rhino reissue with bonus tracks and liner notes.There's a small cut i...
Posted by Ray on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:02:00 PST

Colour Me Pop, etc. - more YouTube stuff...

Even though this is mimed, this is still cool as shit. More and more I'm realizing just how fuckin' cool Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott were...I remember getting into The Faces and thinking, "Who's t...
Posted by Ray on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:11:00 PST

Gig this Saturday...

I haven't played a show since the beginning of April, so this should be interesting...Billy Filo & The Ringers this Saturday Night at Maxwell'sWe're on first...maybe get there by 8pm to catch us?Hopef...
Posted by Ray on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:08:00 PST

Ole! Tarantula - Robyn Hitchcock

Ole! Tarantula.. by Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 will be released Oct 3(Oct 13 in Japan) on the following labels:YepRoc - USAProper - UKOak Tree - JapanMaverick Arts - AustraliaNOTE: Ordering the Yep...
Posted by Ray on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:17:00 PST