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Russ

Music, lies & gaffer tape.

About Me

I'm a bass player, singer, father, husband, Amateur Radio enthusiast (HAM), cook, Stoke City fan. I just recently took up clarinet too and I'm having great fun with that. That's about that really.

My Interests

Bass, Music, Football, Clarinet, Poems, Photography, Art, Food, Drink, HAM radio.

I'd like to meet:

Eve Arnold, Marcus Miller, Bob Carlos Clarke (in another life), Andrew Levy, Raymond Van Barneveld, Stuart Zender, Stan Lee, Jean Jacques Burnel.........er..........and everyone else in my heroes list.

Music:

Funk, Jazz, Rock, just all GOOD music.

Movies:

Star Wars, Paris Texas, This Is Spinal Tap, One From The Heart, The Cable Guy, Jaws.

Television:

None, it's all crap.

Books:

Biographys, Miles Davis, Martin Taylor, XTC etc etc, poetry, photography.

Heroes:

Stuart Zender, Andrew Levy, Jean Jaques Burnel, Stu Hamm, Eve Arnold, Stan Lee, Marcus Miller, Geddy Lee, Robbie Shakespeare, Stevie Williams, Darryl Jones, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Gordon Banks, Ernst Haas, Colin Moulding, Raymond Van Barneveld, Phil Taylor, Dennis Priestley, Eric Bristow, Bill Nelson, SRV, Jeff Beck, John Romita, Ronny Jordan, Jamiroquai, David Bailey, Bob Carlos Clarke, Brian Setzer, Todd McFarlane, Miles Davis, Stoke City F.C., Chet Baker, Nikon, Fender, Yamaha, Lakland, Yolanda Charles, Adam Nitti, Dan Lakin, Trent Reznor, Hugh Cornwell, Matt Johnson, Bob Mould, Steve Lamacq, The Ramones, Janek Gwizdala, Massive Attack, Rob Halford, Wynton Marsalis, Nice Guy Eddie, Raymond Van Barneveld, John Hegley, Seamus Heaney, William Wordsworth, Dave Gilmour, The MIGHTY Stoke City F.C. ........I'll add more as I think of them.

My Blog

Topping out.

We're having a new roof on the house this week, major expense and major mess, everywhere. Everything else is having to wait, and I've got the kids at home on school holidays, so my head is spinning. I...
Posted by Russ on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:55:00 PST

This is the day.

I'm a bass player. I've been trying to come up with new material, with two small kids climbing all over me, impossible to concentrate, impossible to think about anything other than feeding them and ke...
Posted by Russ on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 06:49:00 PST