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Marty Willson-Piper

Philanthropist, acrobat, guitarist with The Church

About Me

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts"
Bertrand Russell - philosopher, mathematician and writer

"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/13/2006
Band Website: martywillsonpiper.net
Band Members: Marty Willson-Piper
Influences: Please Visit: www.myspace.com/indeepmusicarchiveuk
This list and all my favourite Music Dreams explained, but for now....CAN, Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Sly Stone, Funkadelic, Al Green, Amon Düül ll, Agitation Free, Robert Wyatt, Matching Mole, Soft Machine, Caravan, kevin Ayers, Steve Hillage, John Cale, Gentle Giant, Gabriel's Genesis, Richard Thompson, Pentangle, John Martyn, Nick Drake, The Small Faces, The Move, Roy Wood, early ELO, The Beatles, The Faces, Early Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane,The Stones,The Doors, Be Bop Deluxe, Cockney Rebel, early and middle Deep Purple, first five Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Sandy Denny, John Lennon solo, George Harrison solo, Paul McCartney solo and with Wings, Ringo's drumming, Queen, King Crimson, anything Fripp, first few Jethro Tull,The Meters, Lou Reed, Nico, Velvet Underground, Trees, Lindisfarne, Kate Bush, Fairport Convention with Judy Dyble, first three Fairport albums after Judy Dyble, Incredible String Band, Syd Barrett, Colin Blunstone, The Zombies, Argent, Yes, Kraftwerk, La Düsseldorf, Guru Guru, The Who, 10cc, XTC, The Sweet, White Noise, The Supremes, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, Peter Skellern, Todd Rundgren, New York Dolls, Patti Smith Group, Felix Pappalardi, Jonathan Swift, Tim Hardin, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jeff Beck, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Terje Rypdal, Cream, Alquin, Arzachel, Khan, David Bowie, Mick Ronson, First Pretenders album and her voice and some amazing songs, Peter Hammill, Van Der Graaf Generator, T.Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Scott Walker, Family, kevin Coyne, Siren, David Sylvian, Japan, The Only Ones, Wire, The Ruts, Bob Marley, Dillinger, Gregory Isaacs, Igor Stravinsky, Frank Zappa, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Big Star, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Roy Harper, Badfinger, Nilsson, PFM, Banco, Neu, Mott The Hoople, Ian Hunter, Groundhogs, Free, Freedom, Grand Funk Railroad, Gong, Steely Dan, Fotheringay, Focus, Roxy Music, Eno Vocal Albums, Eno Ambient Albums, Phil Manzanera, Sharks, David Attenborough, Richard Attenborough, Monty Python, Ravi Shankar, Kenny Everett, The Invaders, 60's Star Trek, The Prisoner, The Avengers, 50's Twilight Zone, Elvis Presley, Duane Eddy, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, Early Chicago, Blood Sweat And Tears, The Band, Dr Who, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Early Supertramp, Christopher Lee, Tolkien, CS Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Laurie Lee, Aldous Huxley, The Nice, Gershwin, Rodgers And Hammerstein, Rodgers And Hart, Veronique Sanson, Beethoven, Mozart, Jaqueline du Pré, Janis Joplin, Vivaldi, Sylvia Plath, Faust, Michael Rother, Carlos Saura, Robert Weine, Kafka, Günther Grass, Harvey Mandel, The Hollies, Laura Nyro, Gene Vincent, Uriah Heep, Dory Previn, Those Five Bread Songs, Tommy James and The Shondells, Michael Nesmith, Racing Cars, Home, Jensen Interceptor, Aston Martin DB5, Citroen DS, Marcus, Conny Plank, Hatfield And The North, Pete Ham, Humble Pie, Ten Years After, Cabaret Voltaire Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, David Crosby, The Eagles and America when they are not schmoltz, Hawkwind, Mike Oldfield, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Marmalade, Squeeze, Colosseum, Allan Holdsworth, Mick Taylor, James Gang, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Bulgakov, Bill Nelson, A-Austr, Isotope, Joe Walsh, Human League, Peter Baumann, Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream, Rory Gallagher,Terry Riley, Wishbone Ash, Ash Ra Tempel, Popol Vuh, Camel, Bridget St John, Cluster, CSNY, Beach Boys, Doctors Of Madness, The Byrds, Henry Cow, Serge Gainsbourg, Mountain, Moody Blues, Nazgul, Nektar, Nico, Velvet Underground, Nina Simone, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, first four Pyschedelic Furs, John Foxx, Ultravox with John Foxx, Roedelius, Santana, Television, Tom Verlaine, Michael Mantler, Jack Bruce, The Kinks, Frumpy, The Monkees, Egg, Captain Beefheart, Sex Pistols, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham Nicks, Pink Fairies, Procol Harum, Traffic, Miles Davies, Steeleye Span, Tim Buckley, The Creation, Amen Corner, Stephen Stills, Roger McGuinn, The Mamas and The Papas, Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Duane Allman, Gryphon, Amazing Blondel, Fox, ELP, Curtis Mayfield, Chicken Shack, first five Bruce Springsteen, Brand X, Return To Forever, Al DiMeola, Brainticket, Blodwyn Pig, Betty Davis, Ian Dury And The Blockheads, Eric Burdon And The Animals, Esquivel, Ravel, Zakir Hussain, Paul Kossoff, Robin Trower, Stone The Crows, Golden Earring, Earth and Fire, Ange, Jane Birkin, Martin Denny, Manitas De Plata, Arvo Pärt, Anette Peacock, Césaria Évora, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Cat Stevens, The Chambers Brothers, Blue, Curved Air,The Tremeloes, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sutherland Brothers And Quiver, Georgie Fame, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Grin, Howlin' Wolf Glen Miller Orchestra, Rita Hayworth, Tarkovsky, Fassbinder, Herzog, Dirk Bogarde, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Cervantes, Camus, Sartre, Gide, Cocteau, Stendal, Lorca, Paz, Neruda, Wilfred Owen, John Hurt, Richard Burton, Dylan Thomas, Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Strindberg, Stig Dagerman, DH Lawrence, Steinbeck, Colette, Rimbaud, Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Baudelaire, Di Lampedusa, De Nerval, Wilde, Poe, Alain Fournier, Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McClaughlin Victor Jara, Bertrand Russell, Erich Fromm, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurasawa, Mishima, Charlotte Rampling, Shakespeare, Laurence Olivier, James Fox, Alain Delon, Kandinsky, Picasso, Matisse, Gaugin, Bosch, Goya, Miro, Cees Nooteboom, Hamish Imlach, Pedro Almodovar, Fellini, Antonioni, Visconti, Franco Zeffirelli, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Voltaire, Roy Buchanan, Vladimir Majakovsky, Jaques Brel, Erik Satie, Stan Getz, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich, Iggy Pop, Iggy and The Stooges, MC5, The Tremeloes, The Nits, Dagmar krause, Heavy Metal Kids, The Turtles, Sun Ra, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Goddard
Sounds Like: All of the above...
Record Label: Heyday Records USA/ In Deep Recordings Europe/ Oz
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Richard Wright

Now, we must live in a world without Richard Wright.His soft touch, his unseen fingers quietly busy. Glueing together the fabric of Pink Floyd. Small stitches holding the large bright cloth. An essent...
Posted by Marty Willson-Piper on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:56:00 PST

Scandinavia, Nightjar tour ends here...for now!

Hey All,MWP here again finally at rest in Stockholm....briefly. We have travelled from Australia to Scandinavia playing shows with various incarnations of the Mood Maidens. Check out the pics on the E...
Posted by Marty Willson-Piper on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:29:00 PST

Thanks

Hey, MWP here,Thanks to all those who came to the US gigs. The smart ones, the listeners, the evolved, those with a sense of humour, those who you can talk both seriously with and be casual, those who...
Posted by Marty Willson-Piper on Sat, 31 May 2008 09:26:00 PST

Leaving Australia and Going To California

Just a thank you to all the people who came to the shows in April in Australia. Hope you are enjoying Nightjar if you picked it up. The people who ordered the album from overseas will be receiving it ...
Posted by Marty Willson-Piper on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:53:00 PST

The Blue Mountains, books and other cities

Hey Music Lovers,Stockholm/Brisbane/Toronto/Hamburg/Boston/London/Hels inki7 other cities requested on the Nightjar tour...you tell me where in each city and I will look into it. Brisbane may have to w...
Posted by Marty Willson-Piper on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:06:00 PST

Nightjar Tour

Dear Spacers, First show of Nightjar jaunts at the sweet, candlelit, incensed and cozy Sandringham upstairs. I love playing here because it is a listening room. Jay doing the sound for me with finesse...
Posted by Marty Willson-Piper on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:32:00 PST

klaus Dinger, one of my heroes has died

Hey All,First show tonight and I wake up to hear of the death of one of my heroes. Klaus Dinger was surely immortal. His group Neu with Michael Rother introduced me, with all the Kraut Rock of the tim...
Posted by Marty Willson-Piper on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:40:00 PST

Nightjar latest, In Deep Recordings and In Deep Music Archive

Hey there Spacers,The new album Nightjar received its finishing touches in mastering today. We are just finishing up the album artwork and hope to have it in production by the middle of next week. The...
Posted by Marty Willson-Piper on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PST

Dare Mason live in London!

FOLD, the electro/chillout collaboration between Dare and David Bickley have just had their debut album released through Arabesque distribution.To celebrate the launch they are playing their first eve...
Posted by Marty Willson-Piper on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:10:00 PST

new solo album - Nightjar

Dare Mason is producing the next solo album for Marty Willson-Piper at the VIP Lounge in Penzance.NIGHTJAR has 12 string acoustic, some bass, some lead vocals, all the drums, accordian and whistles......
Posted by Marty Willson-Piper on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:27:00 PST