Music:
Member Since: 4/7/2006
Band Website: twistedsounds.com
Band Members:
Live: Adam: Vox / Guitar, Jaws Levine: Keys & Sax, Dean: Drums, Paskey & Dr Bob: Bass...
Recorded: Adam: Vocals, Keys, Guitar, Bass, Trumpet, Trombone, Drums, Percussion and Programming...
Mick Stuart: Lead Guitar on Sexual Frustration, Wick of the bomb and Topless Harry's Naked Sauna & Busty Gym
Greg Levine: Sax on BongoBelly
Luke Escombe: Lead Guitar on Bongobelly
Influences: Big fat funky horn bands of the 70's thru 90's such as Kool and the Gang, Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns, Curtis Mayfield, Blood Sweat & tears, Salsoul Orchestra, Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band and Chicago thru to the Incognito's and Jamiroquai's of today... not to mention Dirty Harry Soundtracks ;)
Favorite artists include: Yello, Jimi Tenor, MC 900 Ft. Jesus, Gil Scott-Heron, Deee-Lite, Charlie Mingus, Tower Of Power, Herbie Hancock, Corduroy, Stevie Wonder, Jaco Pastorius, Daft Punk, Norman Cook, Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Brand New Heavies, Stanley Clarke, Jim Henson, Charly Antolini, Deodato, Mahler (particularly his 1st) (and the list goes on;)...
- Recommended listening -
Harry's Top 50!
(subject to frequent change as I think of em'):
Live Album 1970 - Grand Funk Railroad
Domingo - Jaco Pastorius (perfection;)
Walking up Hip Street - Tower of Power
Lickity Split - Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns
Drop it in the Slot - Tower of Power
Chameleon - Herbie Hancock
Black Licorice - Grand Funk Railroad
Haitian Fight Song - Charles Mingus
Concerto For Jazz Rock Orchestra - Stanley Clarke
Function - Jamiroquai
Talking Loud - Incognito
Too High - Stevie Wonder
Lucretia MacEvil - Blood Sweat & Tears
Call Me - Me'shell NdegeOcello
Booty Full - Skunkhour
Funky Screw - Lee Fields
Street Player - Chicago
Follow That Arab - Corduroy
Nobody Move - Corduroy
Mini - Corduroy
Love The Life You Live (Pts 1 & 2) - Kool and The Gang
Summer Madness - Kool & The Gang
Kitty's Back - Bruce Springsteen
Atlantis - Jimi Tenor
Stare and Stare - MC 900 Ft. Jesus
When You Are Who You Are - Gil Scott Heron
Selectivity - James Taylor Quartet
Right On For The Darkness - Curtis Mayfield (too much!)
Other Side Of Town - Curtis Mayfield
Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic
What is Hip - Tower Of Power
Sweet Shirley - New Jersey Kings
Charlies Groove - New Jersey Kings (solid gold!!!)
Come - Prince (tight n' tasty;)
Dream Come True - Brand New Heavies (Go N'Dea you super fly singer of my dreams!!!)
Bahia San Juan - Giovanni Hidalgo
I can't tell you in words what the above songs do for me - best to hunt em' down and listen to them for yourselves if you haven't heard em before... enjoy...
Topless Harry ;)
Sounds Like: People say I'm a little Frank Zappa-ish... ?
Record Label: Twisted Sounds, Sydney, Australia
Type of Label: None
