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About Me

most of you know who i am and if you don't you probably shouldn't be reading this....and i don't collect friends like some of you collect trophies or whatever it is you collect. if you deserve to be acknowledged you will be. some think they do but they don't.

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

"heroes are for admiring not meeting" said geddy lee and i agree...so that means nobody. i am not here to meet anyone and i will only communicate with people i know or know of so don't waste your time or anyone else's... unless this be of musical relevance. keep in mind that since i have met people including joe strummer, robin zander, half of the current version of iron maiden(bruce dickinson,nicko mcbrain and of course adrian smith), the original grand funk railroad(mark, don and mel), jason bonham, all of sonic youth(talking to lee ranaldo was better than any music class i ever attended)and (most recently) chrissie hynde and martin chambers of (the)pretenders plus said hello or similar to adrian belew, john entwistle, half of supergrass(gaz & danny), alan white, trevor rabin among others(that's right among others) you'll understand that statement to be somewhat untruthful. again, if you don't know who these people are you shouldn't be reading this since i probably wouldn't want to talk to you.

since you made it this far i'll be polite and actually refer to those i would most like to meet: DAVID BOWIE... PAUL WELLER... STEVE WINWOOD... STEWART COPELAND... JIMMY PAGE... ROBERT PLANT... JOHN PAUL JONES... IAN GILLAN (PT doesn't count... i perhaps could have in '93 but i didn't want to be potentially disappointed)

Music:

visual jukebox/guessing game/history lesson:

literal and figurative(which is really witch?)

contrary to speculation no complete recording of this show is in circulation. no AUD, no SBD. these two videos contain the only 3 songs from that show to be seen. going by this, i'd have to say it was one of their best shows... if not the best show they ever played.

the best bowie song of the past 15 years.

the new steve winwood video...thanks to suzy for this

this is gemma hayes. she's irish. she's absolutely beautiful. i would so marry her.

and here's one from that familiar logo

one of my favorite songs written by richard wright... you know the group, right?

(not in any particular order)

the clash
(steve winwood's)traffic
led zeppelin
rush
the who
the beatles
deep purple
richard thompson
linda thompson
the police
pink floyd
iron maiden
supergrass
sonic youth
king crimson
jeff beck
yardbirds
yes
jimi hendrix
the kinks
paul weller
johnny cash
U2
pretenders
genesis
xtc
john lydon
love and rockets
bauhaus
tin machine
marc bolan
grand funk railroad
ginger baker
keith richards
the black crowes
john fogerty
booker t. & the m.g.'s
ac/dc
emerson lake and palmer
talking heads
the velvet underground
jefferson airplane
the beach boys
elvis costello
buzzcocks
roxy music
lush(90's shoegazers)
my mom(really!)
creation(60's mod group)
r.e.m.
husker du
the replacements
john coltrane
radiohead
the moody blues
black sabbath
judas priest
cheap trick
ramones
jethro tull
electric light orchestra
dave edmunds
nick lowe
the smithereens
oasis
buffalo springfield
crazy horse
rory gallagher
peter frampton
rainbow
the doors
iggy(pop)and the stooges
tears for fears
blur
duran duran
van halen
psycho motel
ratt
warrior soul
spinal tap
...and many many others

Movies:

the collected works of antonioni, kubrick and hepburn(audrey not katherine)although i'd rather watch a music documentary than anything else. i should name one movie not alluded to above and that would be 'rumble fish'(an uncharacteristically impressionistic film with the ultimate impressionistic film score courtesy of the super-cool stewart copeland)also i check out films with trevor rabin musical scores whenever i can(he doesn't get enough credit so i'm mentioning him here as well as the band he was in above in the music section)

Television:

i don't have much of an interest in tv except to watch stuff on dvd, the mets(not often), the dolphins(just as not often), and obviously mostly music stuff.

Books:

music, biographies... even better when it's a biography of a musical artist, right?

i just completed reading 'the jam: a beat concerto'(the authorized biography) by paolo hewitt(revised(1996)edition)("new" forward by noel gallagher plus "original" forward by paul weller) and 'cash: an american man' by bill miller(the first name of the subject of the book is johnny)

Heroes:

if you scrolled down this far you know who they are since you just read their names as they're listed above. one i'd like to mention is:
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My Blog

2008.03.06. mini-reviews

the black crowes - 'warpaint'    frustrating. supergrass - 'diamond hoo ha'   they're back and they're having fun.  ray davies - 'working man's cafe'  &nbs...
Posted by sir clash hiwatt on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:28:00 PST

The Top 18 (And A Half) Of 2007(plus honorable mention)

         The Top 18 (And A Half) Of 2007         &n bsp;  (actually there are two halves) 1. Radiohead - ...
Posted by sir clash hiwatt on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 04:39:00 PST

2007.10.11 the new radiohead album

there is no band in the world in the past 15 years that has been better than radiohead. their new album, 'in rainbows', is the 7th studio album. it is their 6th consecutive work of brilliance. add to ...
Posted by sir clash hiwatt on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:13:00 PST

PEMFs

pulsed electromagnetic fields   a work in progress more on this... later    
Posted by sir clash hiwatt on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:11:00 PST

an acausal connecting principle?

i went to my favorite bookstore today. (an aside: i haven't been there in a while. it used to be the place where i enjoyed quality private time with a ladyfriend in a location public yet an...
Posted by sir clash hiwatt on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:31:00 PST

review of the deep purple 2007.08.09 performance at musikfest

i had very high expectations of this show. deep purple were even better than i expected. steppenwolf were very good. a lot of fun at this show, but not a lot of hot ladies. concert reviews are not jus...
Posted by sir clash hiwatt on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:36:00 PST

(updated 2007.07.24)non-review of the 2007.07.20 performance by the police in hershey

i decided the length of the show was to be the amount of time i would write a review. i wrote what i thought was a very interesting commentary that i hoped would once again challenge your idea of what...
Posted by sir clash hiwatt on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:22:00 PST

2007.07.12 re-post: application for my future wife(start laughing)

 (reposted in all fairness to someone in particular)(originally posted 2006.09.23) alrighty ladies... here we go (interested applicants send message) question 1: do you like at least 45 of the b...
Posted by sir clash hiwatt on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:12:00 PST

2007.06.18 remastering update

in the 3 months since the last update i've accomplished absolutely nothing! today i was going to remaster my album of synthesizer improvs called 'how i spent my day off' but decisions need to be made....
Posted by sir clash hiwatt on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:53:00 PST

2007.06.16 today is another 40th anniversary...

... the greatest music festival of all time began today in 1967. its proper name is the monterey international pop festival but is mostly remembered as monterey pop. i will(in a rare instance) not sp...
Posted by sir clash hiwatt on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:33:00 PST