Member Since: 6/21/2006
Band Website: graykin.com
Band Members: L. Graykin: I am an English Language Arts teacher at a public school in NH. Parent of two boys, I am married to writer Justine Graykin. In my spare time I raise chickens and gripe about politics. I am also on the board of the NH Center for Integrated Curriculum, a non-profit organization which has been working to launch an innovative new middle school in southeastern NH; see NHCIC's website for more information.
And when I have time, I compose, arrange, and record music. I used to play in a band called YARD SALE which is long since departed. I've been trying to play guitar for about 30 years now.
The fine and talented folks at Drums on Demand created the drum and percussion loops I use.
Influences: In no particular order: Beatles, Atlantics (now-defunct Boston band--see their page here at MySpace), XTC, Floppie the Banjo Clown, the Bachs (both JS and PDQ), Roxy Music, Dickies, Toy Dolls, X, Joe Jackson, John Cage, Brian Wilson, They Might Be Giants, 60's garage/punk/surf music, Gershwin, Probyn and all his compatriots, Go-Go's, Philip Glass, Lerner and Loewe, Monkees, Robyn Hitchcock, Mrs. Miller, Sagittarius, Michael Nesmith, Dvorak, Elvis Costello, Steely Dan, Roy Zimmerman, Kristian Hoffman, Madness, Charles Ives, Smothers Brothers, Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh, Bangles, Clash, Cowsills, Peter Tork, Devo, Beethoven, Eno, Split Enz, Steve Reich, Sparks, and Frank Zappa, to name a few.
Sounds Like: Take the list of influences, above, put 'em into a sonic blender, and agitate briefly. Pour out a random selection of pureé and chunks, and there you have it.
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MPeace3 sometimes sounds silly and pretentious...
"FANFARE FOR THE UNCOMMON WOMAN" from 2007's EVEN ODDS AND ENDS TO MEANS album.
And sometimes MPeace3 just sounds weird...
"THIRD POSSIBILITY" from 2005's PAST TENSE GRAY album.
(For a larger, clearer version of the music video embedded above, click on "videos" under my picture, above.)
On occasion, MPeace3 attempts to sound serious:
"DO I DARE" from 2007's SINGLE FILE album.
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Record Label: Panama-On-Lamprey
Type of Label: None