Member Since: 17/06/2006
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Influences: Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Dave Matthews Band, Bob Dylan, CSN&Y, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Jimmy Buffett, Cat Stevens, Steely Dan, The Band, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Rush, Tom Petty, Black Sabbath, Allman Bros........The Ramones, The Smiths, U2, R.E.M., The Cure, Bad Brains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Tool, Blind Melon, Nirvana, Sublime, Rusted Root, Leftover Salmon, Yonder Mountain String Band, Donna the Buffalo, Railroad Earth, Government Mule, Old Crow Medicine Show, My Morning Jacket, Bela Fleck............................too many to mention.Classical Influences: Chopin, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninov......Jazz Influences: Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong......Literary Influences: Steinbeck, Hemingway, Maugham, Castaneda, Wolfe(the writer who died in 1938)........I like any writing that speaks to me in a familiar voice and stirs up my compassion, sympathy, and empathy for my fellow man.....Cosmic Influences: Orion's Belt; but more locally, our Sun, our Moon, the Earth itself and the subsequent planets that move in and out away from us in our own little galaxie, and then, faraway galaxies and the parallel universes in which alternate realities exist not unlike our own, or very different from our own, realties that our small minds may not be able to comprehend. My mind is influenced by the source of this beautiful chaos and my own mind which moves this perishable being here and there is itself the cockpit, the control panel, the microchip, the microprocesser that governs my perception, filters this savage brutality, and ultimately decides what I will allow myself to experience, acting as a buffer, a guard against the expiration of the physical thing in order that it should think for me and decide my fate. The mind is the most cosmic thing that I can think of, or what it can think of. Two Parallel patterns of thought racing along side by side. One races for the needs of the physical body, and one races for the spiritual awakening, both thoughts seemingly coming from one independent source, racing to control the hands and feet and mouth. Two separate thoughts with opposing viewpoints never converging. I do not pretend to understand. But it is my choice to try. Or maybe this is just the metaphysical ramblings of a madman, a doomed creature who prays on his deathbed that all of this means something more than just biological functions and broken dreams.One Lone Pine
Sounds Like: "At times the music sounds like a gently flowing river, and at other times the rapids rage. Sometimes I'm an innocent idiot and sometimes I'm a sage."O ne Lone Pine
Type of Label: Major