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the lightningrod salesman

www.lightningrodsalesman.com welcome to the light

About Me

its red and blue lights the entire show, and you can't really run when you are surrounded.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/25/2006
Band Website: lightningrodsalesman.com
Band Members: ariel powell- vocals, guitars, percussion, keyboards, bass, computers, whatnot, whatever, and whathaveyou.
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Influences: sigur ros, u2, beatles, godspeed you! black emporer, mogwai, explosions in the sky, jimi hendrix, deftones, team sleep, glassjaw, circa survive, coheed, thursday, rage, ALL THE GOOD EARLY 90'S GRUNGE, satchmo, theloneous monk, the cure, depeche mode, crash test dummies, tori amos, loreena mckennit, ani, paul simon (garfunkle too, but not as much), mosheik, shpongle, lorn, fresh cut salads, postal service, deep forest, david grey, matthew goodband, lorn, kitaro, yo la tengo, ween, the verve, tool, toad the wet sprocket, james, judybats, simple minds, secret garden, sasha, the samples, radiohead, portishead, pink floyd, bob marley, peter tosh, passengers, mum, neutral milk hotel, johnny cash, bright eyes, primus, my bloody valentine, miles davis, john coltrane, the microphones, lenny white, the mammas and the pappas, joni mitchel, fiona, faith no more, enya, the dresden dolls, dream theater, do make say think, silver mount zion, doves, dntel, jack johnson, dimitri from paris, dire straights, days away, coldplay, solomon keal, cat stevens, the books, bjork, bill frisel, big wreck (yeah yeah, 90's grunge), ben harper, m83, brand new, alphaville, peter gabriel, the album leaf, joy division, aimee mann, micheal penn, creedence, xtc, and oh so many more!
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Sounds Like: the dreams that you have while in deepest slumber.
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Type of Label: None

My Blog

unlike a burden; music available everywhere

whenever, wherever you want it, my cd is now available. you won't actually see it in many stores, but you can order it. if you are going to order online, i recommend cd baby (follow the links on m...
Posted by the lightningrod salesman on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:23:00 PST

new cd

so i got hiddenkind from the manufacturer, it looks badass. i am working on getting all the online marketing and sales stuff up and running. shouldn't be too long now. i have already sold a bunch h...
Posted by the lightningrod salesman on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:46:00 PST

a fun week of vacation

a whole week at lake wallenpaupack! man that was cool. did alot of jet-skiing (the standup kind, not to be confused with a waverunner). its a workout, and alot of fun. i also read, fished, wat...
Posted by the lightningrod salesman on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:03:00 PST

perfect future fam.

so i got the whole stereo/ipod thing worked out, it was a matter of reading the manual. this is always a last resort for me. i make sure to do plenty of moaning and agonizing over how much everythi...
Posted by the lightningrod salesman on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:07:00 PST

coming soon...

so hiddenkind is at the manufacturing company, and they are working on it. i am very excited about getting this cd done professionally and selling it on the web, as well as hand to hand. i hope th...
Posted by the lightningrod salesman on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:12:00 PST

manna

manna is a song from my soon-to-be-released album HIDDENKIND. it is pretty short, and a little more electronic sounding than most of the other songs on the album. i wrote it as a love song for my ...
Posted by the lightningrod salesman on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:42:00 PST

they cover you with snow

since i finished recording on hiddenkind, i have been bouncing around some ideas as to what kind of direction to take musically. this song is just an example of what i have been doing, other than th...
Posted by the lightningrod salesman on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 01:17:00 PST