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O'NEAL

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About Me

My name is Mitch O'Neal. I was born and raised a somewhat normal, middle class, caucasion child in the hills of East Tennessee. I'm a guitar picker, I draw occasionally, and I'm a borderline gun nut (maybe just borderline nuts). I love my 1911's and my Peacemakers. I have a small recording studio which serves as a private musical playground for my friends and I. Recently I've set up a small shop at my house where I work on amps. I try to limit my trade to tube amps. I love those little glowing glass bottles. I call it AmpShop. Check it out...I play guitar in the band Ablazing Grace, I am a founding member of the band Soupline Man and a musical project called Ward’s Cleaver. Ward is currently taking a little time off to 'discipline' the Beav. He'll be back soon with new tunes for your listening pleasure...Anything else you'd like to know, feel free to ask.... In the meantime check out these other local music makers on MySpace:Omega Tribe ,Horns of Moses ,Muleface ,Citizen Cane , Knoxville basedThe American Plague andMy Final Resting Place , just to name a few...

My Interests

Music (playing, writing and recording), drawing... too many to list

I'd like to meet:

Obi Wan Kinobi, I want to learn the ways of The Force and become a Jedi guitar player...~ ~ ~ Hellaluja, The next CD from Ablazing Grace is in the works ~ ~ ~

Music:

Hard rock and blues... Jimi Hendrix, King's X, Jeff Beck, SRV, Beatles, Black Sabbath, Glenn Miller, Led Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, Robert Johnson, Pink Floyd (with Roger Waters), Muddy Waters, ZZ Top, Audioslave, Charlie Patton, AC/DC (with Bon Scott), Deep Purple, Joe Satriani, Robin Trower, Duke Ellington, Johnny Winter, Blue Oyster Cult, Van Halen (not Van Hagar), Ry Cooder, Alice Cooper, the list goes on and on and on........

Movies:

Raiders of the Lost Ark (best action movie ever made), The Searchers (The Duke at his darkist), The Green Mile (simply a great movie and Wild Bill is a hoot), Meet John Doe (great story), The Caine Mutiny (Quigg and his steel balls), The Shawshank Redemption (best adapatation from a book I think I've ever seen), Little Ceaser (Edward G. Robinson, need I say more), Twelve Angry Men (you don't need special effects to make a great movie), Wyatt Earp, The Maltese Falcon (classic Bogey), Midnight Express, Blue Velvet (Frank Booth is a sick and dangerous man), The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah), Full Metal Jacket (I love R. Lee Ermey), Key Largo, Touch of Evil (pretty dark subject matter for the time), again the list goes on and on.....

Television:

Not much for "prime time" TV, I like Deadwood and the History Channel though

Books:

The Old Testament, The New Testament, The Stand, The Dark Tower series, The Green Mile and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (anything by Steven King)

Heroes:

Jesus, My Father and those who voluntarily put themselves in harms way for this great country of ours....

My Blog

Backbone...

I recently came across a quote from Fred Thompson that I liked... "It's time for people who believe that they have a stake in Western Civilization and its traditions to get a little backbone, even if ...
Posted by O'NEAL on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:50:00 PST

The "Supreme" Court.... Yeah Right

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee, by school Principal, Jody McLeod: "It has always been the custom at Roane ...
Posted by O'NEAL on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:04:00 PST

This Really Chaps My Ass&.

Well have you heard about our countries "distinguished" guests this week? It's none other than the president of Iran and that little dipshit dictator from Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. These two characters...
Posted by O'NEAL on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:58:00 PST

Immigration

I am reprinting this letter with the authors' permission. It concerns immigration and I believe it hits the mark... at least in terms of what I believe. Subject: about immigration From: "David La...
Posted by O'NEAL on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:45:00 PST

On A Serious Note&.

             I've posted and will continue to post on MySpace about things that aggravate me. If you've read them, they contain a fair amount of s...
Posted by O'NEAL on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:16:00 PST

Pull Out at the Pump& (i.e. Youre Just a Simple, Sorry ass, No-good Thief)

               Is it just me or do any of the rest of you get aggravated when you have to walk in a pay for gas before pumping it now da...
Posted by O'NEAL on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:38:00 PST

Cargo pants and the dress code...

Having high school aged children; I bore witness a year ago to the great wailing and gnashing of teeth the new dress code brought about. Instead of flailing blindly at something I did not understand, ...
Posted by O'NEAL on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:17:00 PST