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Carlo

ZZTop - like puppies, are not just for Christmas!

About Me

First of all, love your friends, love your planet! Secondly, the most very bestest magical & incrediblest song ever written in the history of the world either in this realm or any other(spiritual or otherwise) has got to be 'I AM THE WALRUS' by THE BEATLES!!! Okay, now onto the 'Me' stuff... and so the saga goes... I'm Stoke-On-Trent born & breeded! Will probably die here too, but that's not such a bad thing as Stoke-On-Trent ain't that bad. Kinda like New York too. I am the lead vocalist and bass player for 'After Hours', along with Steve Robinson (guitars & vocals) & Paul (Drums & percussion) a Blues/Rock 3-piece. Check us out if you can? We cover a few people such as Joe Bonamassa, Ritchie Kotzen, ZZTop, as well as performing our own inamitable masterpieces. I am less than a year older than Ritchie Sambora. I'm a Scorpio too, not that I believe in any of that crap of course! Music plays a big part of my life [hell, it is my life] and together with 'Steve & Paul' (my very bestest soul brothers) we put out a neat hard rock/blues sound that you'll find hard to find elsewhere, especialy in S-O-T. I'm a big ZZTop nut and have tried to grow a beard on several ocassions but always seem to shave it off before I get past the 2 inch stage, but one day... I'm a naturaly scruffy person in appearence but my best buddy Donna, is just the opposite so that kind of balances things out I think? She's been a part of me for an incredible amount of years but she still has an ass to die for!! I have done almost enough in my 40 odd years so that if I die tomorrow I can say I have had a good and interesting life, I have experienced a few things! But... I do have one 'big' ambition, I'd like to play in front of a 50,000 plus audience with my band 'After Hours', I'd love us to open for a big name. I feel all religion [with maybe very few exceptions - Wicca being one] should be banned as it causes more trouble than it's worth! I think it's a bit 'old hat' and probably the oldest form of crowd control known to man? Please accept my apologies if I have offended anyone, that is not my intention, it's just my opinion, something I think we still retain here in the west without fear of being stoned to death, but only just. Peace & love to all...

My Interests

Music [listening & playing] /Movies [watching & writing]/my garden [no I'm not getting boring, it's cool, you should see my back garden on a starry summers evening with all the candles lit and a bottle of red corked open. Magic!/My wife Donna [hot foxy lady!]/Red wine/A Harley Davidson Superglide [which of course I can't afford, but maybe one day... one day... ] Life.

I'd like to meet:

Billy Gibbons & Billy Bob Thornton for an all out jam session with Jack Daniels at Mo's bar to wash everything down. Now that would be somethin'! Fairuza Balk (she could put a spell on me any day of the week) Would also like to meet the guy who is gonna get me & my band enough gigs so that we can give up work and earn a living playing the music we all love!!!

Music:

ZZTop/The Beatles/Pink Floyd/Reef/Ritchie Kotzen/Tom Waits(Genius)/Joe Bonamassa/Sting/Bon Jovi/Bjork/PJ Harvey/After Hours/Aerosmith/Led Zepp/Lots of blues music too many to mention/Ry Cooders slide guitar [awesome]/Classical music/Some jazz [Jamie Cullum]/ & Lyle Lovatts rendition of his song 'Penguins' [now isn't that a cool little ditty?] And probably a pickup truck load more besides!

Movies:

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy/Harper - Moving Target [Paul Newman - 1966 and one of William Goldmans best scripts]/Kingdom of Heaven/The Searchers/Dirty Harry/Bourne Identity & Supremecy/Anything with Mickey Rourke!!!/American Perfekt(Fairuza Balk - WOOF!!!)/ & about a thousand others too.

Television:

Don't watch much TV, too much crap! But, The X-files [if it were still on]...

Books:

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy/Lennon In America/The Keep/Stinger/All Viz annuals/The Clayton To Hanley minilink timetable.

Heroes:

The Very Rev Billy Gibbons [nuff said!!!]/John Lennon [of course]/Mickey Rourke [ultimate in a cool]/Fairuza Balk [fiesty lady]/Billy Bob Thornton [another real cool dude, & he also rubs shoulders with Billy Gibbons and plays a mean guitar too]/Johnny Depp [underated too much cuz he's almost as pretty as me]/John Wayne [he's everybody's hero!]/Stevie Robinson [anybody who can play lead guitar with a broken finger has to be a hero, right?]/Jack Daniels [am I being shallow here?]/ & last but not least My Mom [without her everything would be meaningless - Moms are definately hero's!

My Blog

Support your local venues and your local bands, and do it now!

We are now in the year 2006 and a huge chunk of the music industry is controlled by people in suits whose main interest is the quest for the unending dollar! Not real music! These day's, I feel the ne...
Posted by Carlo on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:58:00 PST