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G.S. Picard

About Me

Gayle is: Hard driving rock influenced rythm. Folk tradition freestyle fingerpicking. Singer/songwriter storyteller/pontificator. Concerned citizen/ jaded existentialist. Tree hugging, semi-vegetarian, pro-recycling, anti-corporate advocate of Mother Earth. In-your-face-step-back-from-the-mic-the-soundman-looks-worri ed-vocals. Move-on-closer-soak-it-up-ooh-this-is-her-sexy-voice-crooner . Wow! That's a hit if I ever heard one POP provider. Damn-I-wish-I'd-written-THAT-song-do-I-sound-flat-oh-that-se t-sUCKED- I-think-they-hate-me-I'm-quitting-tomorrow-self-deprecating- paranoid. Damn-that's-a-gREAT-song!-baby-I-was-ON-tonite-didja-see-em- boppin'- Christ-I-LOVE-this-life-book-me-another-one-I-can't-wait optimist. Desperately seeking your love and approval. Doesn't care what the hell you think.

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Member Since: 5/11/2006
Band Website: www.gspicard.com
Band Members: Second Coming Musicians: Bass, Electric Guitar, Keys, Synth, Back-up Vocals, Engineer-Jeff Root. Drums-Tom Ruckey. Lead Guitar-Rob Carlson. Additional Bass-Zack Root. Flat Pickin', Banjo-Jerry Wile. Harmony Vocals- Pat Kenneally, Jon Swenson, Mark Fisher, Dave Gaudet, Lee Villeneuve, Tom Ruckey, Hollie Jacobs, Cheryl Robertson. Djembe-Cheryl Robertson.
Influences: Everybody!
Sounds Like: I hope that I am not that easily classifiable...
Record Label: Root Cellar
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The comfort of pops and cracks.

I bought my first record album in 1973. It was Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. I was in 7th grade, and I earned the money to buy it breaking up cardboard boxes at the corner grocery store for $1. ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:38:00 GMT

Serial Blog; Part three: Just kept right on walking.

In some other life, I may have been confined. I may have been shackled, too. I am claustrophobic, and I cannot stand to have anything tight around my neck or wrists. Who, in a time when confinement an...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:13:00 GMT

EEWWW!

Will somebody PLEASE get that fucking poseur Katy Perry OUT of my face!!??  There IS such a thing as TOO MUCH marketing!!  Gross.  ( I'll take Jill Sobule over her ANY DAY!)
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:20:00 GMT

In defense of the analytical.

Years ago I was in a laundromat and a young woman sitting beside me struck up a conversation. It was the usual topics of the day type of chat, somewhere during which something she said prompted me to ...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:38:00 GMT

New CD is just around the corner!

There are but a few tunes left to lay basic tracks down for, and then we'll be cruising in the guest performer fast lane...breaking only for pizza and caffiene!!Once again, Jeff Root is the producer t...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:54:00 GMT

Serial Blog: Part Two; I wish I had a Monkey.

I was a very poor student. There was nothing that my teachers could offer up that was more interesting than what was going on in my own head. I was the sort of kid who was writing poetry at an age ear...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:19:00 GMT

Serial Blog, Part One: Hangnail Sonnet

Creative people, and I mean true artists...the driven-by-compulsion-to create sort...are the most misunderstood and underappreciated beings on this planet. This is not a new thing. We've heard the tal...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:42:00 GMT

The Changing Light

Driving is when I notice it first. The cool blue hues of winter light beginning to be tinged with the soft edges of something warmer, transparently golden. Even in the grasp of frozen January, I can s...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:15:00 GMT

What Floats My Lil’ Boat

After 2 reschedulings due to wacky weather, this past Saturday (Jan.3) finally found a very happy group of friends gathered at The Bull Run, in Shirley, for what eventually became "The Little Show Tha...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:59:00 GMT

What we take for granted...

In this high tech world, the way that we communicate has become so dependent upon electronic devices that losing those devices, even for a short time, throws us into a state of anxiety. The great ice ...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:15:00 GMT