Music:
Member Since: 6/1/2006
Band Website: mobiusbandwidth.com
Influences: Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Mick Karn, Brian Fox, Stuart Adamson, (the SKids, Big Country), Gary Numan, Kate Bush, Ace Frehley, the Beatles, Thomas Dolby, Alice Cooper, Satie, Bach, Clannad, Devo, the Police, Queen, Zep, Joan Armatrading, King Crimson, Tony Levin Peter Gabriel, the Cocteau twins, Earth Wind & Fire, Gil Scott Heron, Heart, the Smiths, Jean Luc Ponty, (yeah I can say that in the same breath!), Japan, Tears for Fear, They Might Be Giants, David Bowie, Eno. Mostly...
Sounds Like: Depends what instrument I'm playing (I play around a dozen). some people compare my bass playing to Les Claypool, but he was not an influence, we share influences. I admire him plenty tho. I really mush together the influence of my favourite players, Brian Fox (my bass mentor), Stanley and Jaco (my dads), and Mick Karn, along with non bassists, guitarists, the whole band that played on Alice Cooper's "Killer' album, an early influence on my approach to melodicism, Stuart Adamson's Celtic tinge, Johnny Marr's boldness, Brian May's classical bombast and delicacy, much as I like filling every hemi-semi-demi quaver with flashy hammer-ons and slapped and popped notes on the bass, I can also really appreciate wide open spaces, and long slow held notes. (sounds romantic. heh.) Basically I play weird funk-rock, or weird folk stuff. and some new wave-ambient this'n'that. er. the odd film score as well.
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