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About Me

ADD BACKLINK HEREIf you're checking this page out, chances are best that you're familiar with The Spike Band, and this page is to further promote that band, as well as any other projects/thingies I put together. My gorgeous wife Catherine can be heard singing along with me on The Public Pool Song, which we co-wrote a few summers ago. As far as info about me, the basics are that I'm a musician, I love playing & writing music, and one of my primary goals is to draw attention to the artists that have most inspired me.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/06/2006
Band Members: .. CDBABY LINK for THE SPIKE BAND: What It Is --

The Spike Band "Desert Star"

Add to My Profile | More VideosSpike - vocals & keys (guitar on The Public Pool Song) Ben Jackson - drums Mike Flores - guitar Daniel Sledge - bass Al McIntosh - trumpetCatherine - vocals, err, (on the Public Pool Song only)
Influences: Traffic/Stevie Wonder/Sting/Ray Charles/Miles Davis/Van Morrison/Brian Auger's Oblivion Express/The Beatles/The Zombies/Beck/John Coltrane/Dr. John/War/Cream/Olu Dara/John Scofield/Dr. Lonnie Smith/Dinah Washington/Ornette Coleman/Chet Baker/Mose Allison/Nick Drake/Albert Ayler/The Mark-Almond Band/Herbie Mann/Rhaasan Roland Kirk/David Sanborn/Yusef Lateef/Herbie Hancock/Chick Corea/Eric Truffaz/Sonny Boy Williamson/Charlie Musselwhite/Gregoire Maret/John Ellis/Poncho Sanchez/Aretha Franklin/Nina Simone/Deep Purple/John Martyn/Lyle Lovett/Jamie Cullum/Jack Bruce/Pharoah Sanders/Arvo Part/Jethro Tull/Camel/Marc Ribot/Bill Frisell/Ginger Baker/Michael Mantler/Soft Machine/Henry Cow/Average White Band/Donny Hathaway/Jimmy Scott/Hank Crawford/Bill Doggett/Louis Jordan/Elvis Costello/Diana Krall/Joe Jackson/Alice Coltrane/Skip Heller/Charlie Haden/Dave Holland/John Abercrombie/Jack DeJohnette/Terje Rypdal/Keith Jarrett/Dewey Redman/The Cinematic Orchestra/Terry Riley/The Who/Them/Steve Winwood/Jose Neto/Karl Denson/Howlin' Wolf/Eric Clapton/Steve Reich/Moondog/Iggy Pop/David Sanborn/Jack McDuff/Groove Holmes/Les McCann/Horace Silver/Ray Bryant/my Mom, my Dad, my bandmates/Yes/Gong/Bruce Hornsby/Eric Dolphy/Bennie Maupin.....and uh, Eddie Harris
Sounds Like: some jazz, some pop, some fun, somethin'
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

free jazz rosco

we went at it with no rules, a little circle in the living room so so old school that yes, one microphone, one (!) cassette player and three dudes& some blues, some reggae, some out-there somewhere hi...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 14:36:00 GMT

loose masterpieces

maybe it's all the rain that's been falling this summer maybe it's looking for something real, something with feel maybe after reading some blip about John Martyn's "Solid Air,"  I star...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:30:00 GMT

Blues & More Blues

so there's a soundtrack out there to a movie directed by Dennis Hopper called The Hot Spot never seen the movie, but here's the deal - Miles Davis + John Lee Hooker + Taj Mahal playing together  ...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:44:00 GMT

What's been on the turntable - risky stuff

no lie, sometimes I pick up records 'cause they just catch my eyethe whole "don't judge a book by the cover blah blah blah..." is cool, can be true- but -let's get real, we have five senses and the vi...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:28:00 GMT

Free Jazz Odyssey

for some reason, in between writing songs, drinking diet sodas, and trying to keep the band rolling rolling rollingI've been engrossed in a soup of improvisationso many avenues of un-explored squawkin...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:38:00 GMT

The link between Diet Dr. Pepper & Albert Ayler

you can think of this as a poemyou're free to imagine it is a memoirfor all I care, you can believe that it is a blurb for canned fish in hot saucetruth is, my brain has made a link between the spirit...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:26:00 GMT

What's been on the turntable - some discoveries

Who doesn't like mix-tapes? With so many records, everything from jazz greats like John Coltrane to 45's of stuff like "Pop Muzik," it's hard to make a big collection feel useful unless it can shared,...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:15:00 GMT

What's been on the turntable

Obviously, I don't limit myself to vinyl and this week I've been listening to a handful of CD's, some of which have become instant favorites. The most recent is Ginger Baker's "Falling Off The Roof," ...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:31:00 GMT

Summertime

What are some of the best songs of summer? Everybody has their favorites, and so do I. Because music is so seasonal for me, my own writing/playing is often hugely influenced by the Mercury shifts. "He...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:44:00 GMT

"gettin' ready for a gig"

What's been on the turntable II - "gettin' ready for a gig" The hours before a show, after the obligatory run-in-the-noonday-sun, after the warming-up, after deciding to shave or not, after the setlis...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:17:00 GMT