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Eli Van Sickel

If only they were unplugged, they'd hear me

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Music:

Member Since: 6/22/2006
Band Website: hs.facebook.com/profile.php?id=83238517
Band Members: Eli-his dobro, guitar, lap steel, lousy harmonica(sometimes perhaps)
Influences: Prince of Weasles

The Common Misconceptions

folk singers

old Mississippi bluesmen who killed a guy in a barfight and went to prison, lost an eye, and play songs in one chord

Bob Dylan

everything I do, everyone I meet, everything I see, and everything I hear.

Joni Mitchell & The Band - Coyote

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Sounds Like: Some guy with a weird guitar singing old blues stuff, folk songs about the mountains of west virginia and irish sailors, not average original songs and good covers.

"His music is kind of a twist between Anal Cunt and Weird Al. BRUTAL!"
- Dr. Satan
Record Label: I'm in the market, as it were
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Newer news.

I've been doing alot of pondering the last few days and I've decided that recording is not something I really have my heart set on. I think it's just because of the fact that you can't be a musician t...
Posted by Eli Van Sickel on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:46:00 PST

news

So I was going to record alot of stuff yesterday, but the guy turned out to be a slacker loser so that didn't happen. So, for now, I'm gonna make tapes myself and I'll have them to sell at the Ro...
Posted by Eli Van Sickel on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:36:00 PST

Article about me in ISU newspaper

Local musician prepares for ISU By Lowell Torres Posted: 1/24/07Eli Van Sickel isn't a familiar face around campus because he's not on the ISU campus yet. Van Sickel is a senior at Terre Haute North ...
Posted by Eli Van Sickel on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:38:00 PST

yo you yo

New Year's Resolutions: -Purity-Girlfriend(get one)-get into college(preferably U of Ill. but I'll settle for ISU)-Do something meaningful   Yeah. That's it. So, I'm kind of in a band now. The Ki...
Posted by Eli Van Sickel on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:30:00 PST

Newnisosity(is my new word)

So, I've had a fair amount of gigs in the last couple months, nothing over the top. It's pretty cool and "how-I-like-it". I played at the Legacy last friday the first and it went really well. I am goi...
Posted by Eli Van Sickel on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:04:00 PST

New Venture

I am in a new band called Sometime Last Year. It is me, and my friends Dylan and Aaron. We have practice sunday. We plan on "bursting onto the scene" sometime in November. Check us out! http://www.mys...
Posted by Eli Van Sickel on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:10:00 PST

More new songs

I wrote another song today. I also wrote two songs yesterday. I find that my writing songs comes in bursts. There'll be a period of days or even a week between songs and then I'll write, like, 3 in a ...
Posted by Eli Van Sickel on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:43:00 PST

New song.

Well, I wrote a song tonight. I think that it is one of my best. It is an epic. I timed myself at about 20 minutes. It has alot of different music breaks and 3 key changes. It is called "Ophelia". Jus...
Posted by Eli Van Sickel on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:22:00 PST

Set List for Legacy show-6/30

1. Romantic Song (original) 2. Love Song (original) 3. Trouble (Cat Stevens) 4. Hackensack (Fountains of Wayne) 5. Danny Boy (traditional) 6. Across the Blue Mountains (traditional) 7. Both Sides Now ...
Posted by Eli Van Sickel on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:54:00 PST