Member Since: 17/05/2006
Band Members: Daddy Foster: singing, guitar, and etc / Paycheck: harp, back vox / Loaded J aka LoJ (Pittsburgh's answer to JLo): piano, fruity beer, crybaby attitude late at night, organ
Influences: FAVORITE ALBUMS: ..1.) "Exile on Main Street" The Rolling Stones 1.) "Loaded" Velvet Underground 1.) "The Clash" The Clash ...1) "Morrison Hotel" The Doors 2.) "Appetite for Destruction" Guns N' Roses ..3.) "Live at the Old Quarter" Townes Van Zandt ..4.) "Mississippi Fred McDowell and the Hunters Chapel Choir of Como, Mississippi Sing Amazing Grace" Mississippi Fred ..5.) "Early Years Vol. 1 & 2" Tom Waits ..6.) "Rocket Redeux" Rocket From The Tombs ..7.) "The Sun Years" Johnny Cash ..8.) "John Prine" John Prine ..9.) "Social Distortion" Social Distortion ..10.) "His Best" Bo Diddley ..11.) "His Best Vol. 1 & 2" Chuck Berry ..12.) "Too Fast For Love" Motley Crue ..13.) "Avalon" Missisippi John Hurt ..14.) "Praise God I'm Satisfied" Blind Willie Johnson ..15.) "March" Uncle Tupelo ..16.) "Faster Pussycat" Faster Pussycat ..17.) "Sixes, Sevens, and Nines" Junkyard ..18.) "Plastic Ono Band" John Lennon ..19.) "Raw Power" Iggy and the Stooges ..20.) "New York Dolls" New York Dolls ..21.) "Powerage" AC/DC 22.) "I Saw The Light" Hank Williams 23.) "Vices" Circus of Power CURRENT FAVORITES: Marah (best band on the planet), The Hold Steady, Deliberate Strangers, Local Honey, Drive By Truckers, Rancid, and Etc. WRITERS: Hemingway, Bukowski, Nazim Hikmet, Phil Levine, Ray Carver, Mohamed Choukri, Brautigan, old Pulp guys (James Cain, David Goodis, etc), Gerald Locklin, Ed OChester, Jonathan Ames, Chuck Kinder, blah blab blah
Sounds Like: Tom Waits meets the Replacements (sans musical talent). Or Blind Willie Johnson fronting the Faces after reading Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Not Capricorn. Cancer. Dig it.
Record Label: Boom Diddy Boom Boom