Art - Music - Science - Knowledge
I'd like to meet:
Artists who think Kandinsky was right about the spiritual in art. Musicians who can improvise and jam in multiple styles. Creative people who love art and music. Kindred spirits and collaborators. Wealthy patrons, art brokers, and gallery owners interested in selling my work.
Music:
I enjoy an eclectic mix of creative and authentic musics.
Favorite Guitarists: Robert Fripp, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Johnny Smith, Django Reinhardt, John McLaughlin, Alan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck, Kazumi Watanabe, John Goodsall, Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Richard Thompson, Bo Diddly, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Billy Gibbons, Neil Young, Buckethead, Steve Tibbetts, David Torn, Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, Fred McDowell, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, Terje Rypdal, Tim Goudy, Nicky Mathews
Favorite Drummers: Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Airto, Art Blakey, Bill Bruford, Charlie Watts, Stewart Copeland, Steve Thornburg, Ted Altenritter
Favorite Bassists: Jaco, Marcus Miller, Robbie Shakespeare, Percy Jones, Mechelle N'dege Ocello, Sting, Flea, Paul McCartney, James Jamerson, Bootsy, Larry Graham, John Wetton, Tony Levin, Trey Gunn, Eberhard Weber, Mick Karn
Favorite Keyboardists: McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Art Tatum, Stevie Wonder, Sun Ra, Professor Longhair, Dr. John, Glen Gould, Mike Vargas
Favorite Composers:
Steve Reich, Mike Vargas, Robert Rich, Henryk Górecki, Gavin Bryars, Arvo Part, Stravinsky, Bartok, Charles Ives, Vaughn-Williams, Ravel, Beethoven, Bach
Favorite Guitars: Number 1: '91 Steinberger GL Custom; GIBSONS: '76 L5-CES, '91 Atkins Country Gentleman, '03 Les Paul Supreme, '05 Les Paul Special Doublecut; JACKSONS: '98 Phil Collen PC1, '84 Charvel 3A Frankenstrat, '01 DK27 Baritone; ACOUSTICS: '88 Santa Cruz F-32, '98 Alvarez-Yairi CY122 Classical; BASSES: '89 Warwick Thumb Bass 5-string, '78 Mathews fretless 5-string.
Movies:
I love film. My favorite directors: Kurosawa, Eisenstein, Jean Cocteau, Ridley Scott, Vittorio DeSica, Francis Coppola, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, David Cronenberg, Roman Polanski, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Carpenter, David Lynch, Tom Tykver, Brothers Quay, Stanley Kubrick, Ang Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Gus Van Sant, Walter Hill, Christopher Nolan... many others.
Television:
Not much worth watching on commercial TV, through I do enjoy the fear mongering disaster programs on Discovery Channel. I especially enjoy the panicked mob scenes as the tsunami roars through Wall Street.
Books:
Books that have rocked my world: Shankara: Crest Jewel of Discrimination, Suzuki Roshi: Zen Mind - Beginners Mind, Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Krishnamurti: You Are the World, Chogyam Trungpa: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Max Heindel: The Rosicrucian Cosmoconception, Emmanuel Velikovsky: Worlds in Collision and Earth in Upheaval, Joseph Campbell: The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Paul Fussell: Class, Howard Zinn: The People's History of the United States, Theodore Modis: Predictions, Graham Hancock: Fingerprints of the Gods, Rupert Sheldrake: A New Science of Life, and The Presence of the Past, Michael Talbot: The Holographic Universe, Ken Wilber: A Brief History of Everything, Strauss and Howe: The Fourth Turning, Heraclitus: Fragments, Ikkyu: Crow with No Mouth, John Martineau: A Little Book of Coincidence
Heroes:
PERSONAL HEROES: Randa Tchelebi, Betty and Chuck Craft, Lou DiMattia (RIP), Patty Pokigo (RIP), Andre DiMattia, Beverly Title , Mike Vargas , Roger Jones , Nicky Mathews, Tim Goudy, Reid Leonard, Alex Coke , Duncan Stewart, Ralph Hunt, Bob Kleinman, Del Nimmo, Howard Salman, Andy Murphy, Ed Backstrom, Charles Liston, Rolf Helland, Dave Griffin.
PUBLIC HEROES: Newton, Einstein, Erwin Schroedinger, Nikola Tesla, Richard Feynman, Rupert Sheldrake, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Nietzsche, Thomas Aquinas, Plato, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Zeno, Lao Tsu, Ramakrishna, Jesus, Buddha, Sri Aurobindo, Suzuki Roshi, Ikkyu, Miles, Coltrane, Muddy, Neil Young, Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Igor Stravinsky, Ravel, Charles Ives, Steve Reich, Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Gerhard Richter, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Kevin Phillips, Lester Thurow.
