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Kyle Schmidlin

About Me

Conceived as a side project of Dennis and Teresa Schmidlin's on or about Valentine's Day 1987, finally formed in November of that year.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/31/2006
Band Members: Kyle Schmidlin - guitars, vocals, and keyboard, from which all other sounds derive.
All songs written by Kyle Schmidlin.
Influences: Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and the Blue Oyster Cult
Pink Floyd
Andres Segovia
Steve Earle
Woody Guthrie
Robert Fripp
Warren Zevon
Frank Zappa, with and without the Mothers of Invention.
Gentle Giant
Country music, folk music, jazz music, blues music, Americana, and Steely Dan.
The state of the world.
People and my interactions with them.
Ernest Hemingway.
Bill Hicks, Mort Sahl, and George Carlin.
And most of all, the one true God, whose name is Love.
Sounds Like: My music is starting to sound more and more like the music I hear in my head. I'm happy for that. Unfortunately, the technology is pretty cheap and I am not a keyboardist / flautist / trumpeter / drummer / singer / string arranger. If you are, or know anyone who is, let me know.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Importance of Election 2008

Election 2008 may be the direst election in America's, and the world's, history.  There are times in every generation when raving lunatics point out that the sky is falling; this time, it actuall...
Posted by Kyle Schmidlin on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:15:00 PST

The Assault on Democracy

             Who will be the next President of the United States of America in January, 2009?  The question seems to have only a handful of r...
Posted by Kyle Schmidlin on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:54:00 PST