Sharon and bringing the funk on the bass, if for whatever reason it is not an appropriate time to bring the funk I generally have it in the car or my back pocket or in a worst case scenario I can run home and get it if you need it and you probably do.
people and robots, mostly.
Russian Composers (especially Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Andreyevich
Rimsky-Korsakov,Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Alexander Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka, Dmitry
Kabalevsky, Aram Kachaturian, Modest Mussorgsky, and Alexander Scriabin)
American Composers (especially Bela Bartok, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Paul Hindemith, Frederick
Delius, Steve Reich, Aaron Copland, Vincent Persichetti, Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti,
Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, John Cage, Alan Hovhaness,
George Crumb, Olvado Golijov, John Adams, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies,
Leo Delibes, Paul Dukas, Philip Glass, and Charles Ives)
Other Composers: (especially Gustav Mahler, Jean Sibelius, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Richard Wagner, Richard
Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez,
Anton Bruckner, Bnjamin Britten, Feruccino Busoni, Elliot Carter, Edward Elgar,
Manuel de Falla, Morton Feldman, Cesar Franck, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Hans Werner Henze,
Arthur Honneger, Leos Janacek, Zoltan Kodaly, Edouard Lalo, Gyorgy Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski,
Jules Massenet, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, Carl Nielsen, Krysztof Penderecki, Astor Piazolla, Francis Poulenc, Max Reger, Camille Saint-Saens, Alfred Schnittke,
Heitor Villa-Lobos, ANton Webern, Kurt Weill, Hugo Wolf, Iannis Enaxis, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Faure,
Fryderyk Chopin, Erik Satie, Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Felix
Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt, George Bizet, Hector Berlioz, Bedrich Semetana, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn,
Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Claudio Monteverdi, Carlo Gesualdo, John Williams, and Danny Elfman
Jazz (especially Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Frank Vignola, Django Reinhardt,
Nels Cline, Paul Motian, Art Blakey, Alex Cline, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Vinny Golia, John Coltrane,
Gerry Mulligan, Benny Carter, Stephane Grapelli, Toots Thielmans, Bela Fleck, Ella Fitzgerald, Kurt Elling, , Maria Schneider, Jim McNeely, Gil Evans, Quincy Jones, and many, many others)
Funk & Soul Bands (especially Parliament, Funkadelic, George Clinton, Sly & The Family Stone, Earth Wind & Fire, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, and many, many, others)
Rock Bands (especially Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante, Primus, Les Claypool, Buckethead, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dave Matthews, and Jon Mayer)
World Music (especially Cuban, Brazilian, Hawaiian, Russian, Jewish, and many others)
Akira Kurosawa Films (especially Dreams)
Coen Brothers Films (especially Oh Brother, Where Art Though? & The Hudsucker Proxy)
Wes Anderson Films (especially The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou & The Royal Tenenbaums)
Christopher Guest Films (especially A Mighty Wind)
The triumvirate of great trilogies (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Back To The Future)
Bill Murray Movies (especially Ghost Busters & What About Bob?)
and other great films (The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Office Space, Edward Scissorhands, The Princess Bride, Ocean's Eleven, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Incredibles.
Futurama, The Simpsons, Mr. Show, Psych, Spongebob Squarepants, and Samurai Jack.
The Tao Te Ching, The Hitchiker's Guide To The Gakaxy, A Confederacy of Dunces, SLouching Towards Nirvana, The Last Night of the Earth Poems.
Ray Brown & Ron Carter.