Music:
Member Since: 8/4/2006
Band Website: www.bopfrog.pinkpaper.info
Band Members: This last year I've had the oportunity to get down with some really hip cats. Here is a live performance from my semi-monthly jam session with "Charles Sammons and the New Neckbreakers".
Influences: Mostly those with whom I have traversed time. Mnt. Zion's John Brown, Dan Lind, Laura Thomas, Pete Spaar, this wonderful man from UWv who performed the Lohengrin overture with us, Ras Alan (of the famed Lions), Mike (now an engineer I think) the composer with the stinky feet, Leaflin, Justin McScwagna, Tom, Damon Carmona, Andrew Valentine, Tom Baily, Devon Sproule, Raphael, Abel, Oliver, Marc Adams, April Leighty, Phil Giannini (rest in old time heaven), John n Dawn D'earth and that whole crew, Patrick Mccrystal, Warren Job, the C'ville scene really, all the guys from Jiffylust especially Mike, Tim (who I hope is finding time to pick his guitar), the guys at the Wherehouse in Winston (thanks guys), Steve Wish, and countless others who as I shake out the cobwebs will join this list.
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Mostly those who really have touched me in a deep and spiritual way with song. Bach, Kodaly, Rabbath, Du Pre, Rostropovich, Debussy, Ravel, Casals, Bruch, Hindemith, Cage, Brahms, Satie, Heiffitz, Shostakowich, Dvorak, Gould, Hendrix, BB King, Taj Mahal, Keb Mo, Al Green, Gil Scott Herron, Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Clinton - Collins - Parliment, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Praxis, Return to Forever, John Zorn, Faith No More, Dream Theater, Steve Vai, Sonic Youth, Bjork, Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, Cannonball Adderly, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans, Scott LaFarro, Art Tatum, Art Blakey, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, Ray Brown, Milt Hinton, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Errol Garner, Oscar Peterson, John McLaughlin, Wes Montgomery, Ben Webster, Shirley Scott, Pat Methany, Danny Richmond, Christian McBride, Josh Redman, Kenny Garrett, Charlie Hayden, Django Rheinhardt, Stefan Grappelli, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesch, David Grisman, Doc Watson, Allison Kraus, Ravi Shankar
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Malcom X
Martin Luther King Jr
Ghandi
Einstein
Langston Hughes
Beauvior
Sartre
Van Gogh
Rilke
Remarke
Asimov
Jorge Luis BORGES !
Sounds Like: Charles Sammons, Your Imagination
Record Label: none
