Artist description A curious fragmentation of one person..or..A typical collection of many people occupying the same space.

Music Style Acoustic Rock

Musical Influences I will do this alphabetically, but in no particular order of importance..........Abba, Alice In Chains, Paul Alexander, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Bach, Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Captain Beefheart, Bee Gee's, Beethoven, Frank Black, the Bonzo Dog Band, David Bowie, James Brown, Byrds, Chic, Alice Cooper, John Campbell, John Cale, Elvis Costello, Cream, Sheryl Crow, Crowded House, Chick Dante, Claude Debussy, Def Leppard, Divinyls, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Ira Elliot, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Peter Gabriel, Marvin Gaye, George Gershwin, Steve Goodman, Emmylou Harris, Jimi Hendrix, Hole, Neil Innes, Jackson Five, Led Zeppelin, Little Richard, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Aimee Mann, MC5, Joni Mitchell, Ennio Morricone, Van Morrison, Ohio Players, Roy Orbison, Parliment/Funkadelic, Gram Parsons, Pink Floyd, Iggy Pop, Pretenders, John Prine, Queen, Quincy Jones, Radiohead, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Richard and the Young Lions, Smokey Robinson, Nina Rota, Roxy Music, Grace Slick, Patti Smith, Vivian Stanshall, Steely Dan, Sly and the Family Stone ,The Supremes, Squeeze, The June Taylor Dancers, They Might Be Giants, The Tubes, Jethro Tull, Veruca Salt, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Suzanne Vega, Tom Waits, Jimmy Webb, Lucinda Williams, Stevie Wonder, X T C, Yes, Neil Young (and Crazy Horse), Frank Zappa....I reserve the right to add or subtract to this list at any time..........More Later

Similar Artists R.E.M., Radiohead, Bowie......at least this week

Artist History Born around the time of the civil war, I became a wheelwright for a local wagon maker in my early teens. Falling in with the wrong crowd I learned to pitch pennies, smoke cigars and levitate. While sleeping off a particularly bad night in a New Orleans drunk tank, I was shanghied to a Hong Kong frieghter. Where I was forced to be a galley slave until being rescued by a beautiful missionary, who then released me after exacting payment of course, somewhere off the coast of Madagascar where I was taken in and cared for by the local natives. Meanwhile, the harpsicord instuctor I had retained in London around the turn of the century had give up on me completely. I drowned my sorrow at this loss by throwing myself headlong into learning to perform with Balinese shadow puppets, while accompanying myself on the ocarina. I had mastered this art and had toured the continent, playing for all the crown heads of europe when tragedy struck. While preparing for a six week stint at the Old Vic in london, in around 1920, I was the victim of a terrible bout of the melancholy, which left me unable to do anything but care for myself in the most basic sense. My career in shambles, and nearly penniless. My beautiful young wife took our twelve children and left our wonderful home to be inhabited by riff raff of every concievable shape, size and criminal persuasion. Stealing away in the night with just the clothes on my back, the pocket watch my mother had given me and an antique parlor guitar that had once belonged to a long dead musician. I set off to make my fortune yet again, this time winding up on the lower east side of New York City. Working with a group of musicians refering to themselves as 'New Wave'. The most notorious of these, a band called 'The Model Citizens' actually a collection of non-musical poseurs from Columbia University. It was through this group that I met, toured and worked with some of the important and innovative artists of the day. People like John Cale and Lou Reed of the 'Velvet Underground' Karla DeVito, Holly Vincent and her band 'The Italians', The 'Underground Opera Star' Klaus Nomi, David Bowie, who I worked for on several different occasions. The blues artist, John Campbell, Delbert McClinton, Bo Diddley and Julee Cruise, just to name a diverse few. Drumming as well for many unnamed and unsigned bands in smokey dives and classic downtown toilets. Then landing in California for several years with the pop band Five for Fighting until after what seemed like another century, I ended up with a guitar in my hands trying to convince various groups of disinterested Californians and New Yorkers that they needed to hear what I had to say. Which brings me to the here and now. Or is it the 'hear' and now? Another chapter, another begining, complete with crawling infancy, stumbling awkward addolesence and hopefully, culminating in some sort of musical and artistic maturity. One can only hope.....Read on.....

Instruments Guitars, Synth, Bass, Drums, Vocals

Albums ironage

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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