Artist description THE ARTIST RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE PROJECTS IS RATHER LIKE A BEAST KNOWN TO WALK THE FACE OF THE WATERY 3RD PLANET GAIA, TYPICALLY CALLED A MAN, NOW, HE IS OF CARAMEL SHADED SKIN AND BROWN EYES WHICH HAVE A STRANGE AZURE ALURE, HE LOOKS LIKE ANY OTHER POET, OR MUSICAL NUT, HAS BEEN PALYING INDEPENDENTLY AND PRODUCING,DISTRIBUTING AS WELL AS ENGINEERING ALL RENDERINGS OF HIS OWN MATERIAL WHICH MAY BE REFERED TO THE SELF STARTED LABLE KNOWN AS MELANIN PRODUCTIONS, HE IS A GENTLE VOICE TROUBLED SOUL DELISCIOUSLY WRAPPEDIN THE TANGIBLE ALONG WITH ALL THE REST, HE BELIEVES IN LOVE AND LOVE IS BELIEVED, THE SAID BEING FLIRTS AND WAXES ELOQUENT GIVEN HALF A CHANCE, MUSIC IS LIKE MONTY PYTHON OVER HOMEMADE BEER, OK?

Music Style stubborn determination to bring to fruition the breath of dreams...

Musical Influences LEGENDARY PINK DOTS. LOU REED, DIAMANDA GALAS,AMIRI BARAKA,LAST POETS, LINDSEY VALDEZ, SPEARHEAD, PATTISMITH,ZEP,FLOYD,BUTHOLESURF,MILES,FIDELCASTRO,BILLCLINTON

Similar Artists ACCUSED OF BEING BJORKLIKE IN DELIVERY RECENTLY, BUT I FIGURE MORE LIKE A CROSS OF MAY WEST AND KORZYBSKI...OR LPD AND BURROUGHS VISITING PTV TO GET STONED AND EAT THINGS, SOUNDS LIKE axj...

Artist History 1989- PICKED UP FIRST GUITAR, POWER CHORDS FOR BREAKFAST LUNCH AND DINNER, IN SALINAS, HOMETOWN OF RICHIE VALENS. 1990-SUFFERED VERY BRUISED FINGERTIPS AND THE STRESS OF REALIZING, DESPITE MY WISHES, THAT THE 60'S WERE GONE..WORE MOCASSINS, MOCKED CARNIVORES, PLAYED MUSIC,WROTE LOVE SONGS... 1991-FELL INTO A DITCH CALLED RANCID TEENAGE SOUL, UM, LOVE AND PLAYED WHEN I COULD, MADE A LEAP FROM A GROUPHOME AND WENT TO STAY IN A QUAINT TOWN/VILLAGE, PLAYED AROUND WITH SONGWRITING, SUBSEQUENTLY DID MY FIRST FRANTIC, HISS PRONE RECORDINGS WITH MY LOVE, STEPHANIE ROSS K AND OUR SON, LOVE CHILD CHIMED IN A LOT...WROTE THE SONG TREK AND WOODY ALLEN AND OTHER SUCH, UH, CLASSICSSSSS OF MY OWN, STEPHANIE WAS A GREAT SINGER, I WROTE THE SONG IN JUNE FOR HER VOICE...AHHH. 1992- MOVED TO SF TO BE A FOOL, SUCESSFUL TO A FUALT, MADE FOUR TRACKS USING A LOT OF OLD RADIOS AND THE INFINTE PATIENCE OF EPICUREANS OF AURICULAR GOODIES, WROTE INFINITUM,THE OTHER SIDE OF LAUGHTER, OTHER DYLANESQUE RAGS, THEN I WENT ELECTRIC, STRAIGHT HAIR AND NOTHING TO DO BUT MAKE MUSIC, MY NEIGHBORS ABHORED ME,ACTIVE AS A POET IN THE LOWER HAIGHT, AT THE FORMER ARMPIT GALLERY, ALWAYS TO BE FOUND AT THE HORSESHOE DRAGGING THE PEN, WORKED SHORTLY FOR HOMOCORE MAGAZINE, TRIED TO OFF MYSELF, NOPE, GOT A JOB... WROTE, FINAGLED AWAY MY WAYS AND MEANS TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF DODGE, NOPE, SO I WROTE VOCIFEROUSLY AND LIVED ON COFFEE AND KISSES, I THINK, TOUGH TIMES, RANCIS VISCOUSITY OF GEENTILITY SENT TO THE WRONG GHETTO SNAP, MADE MANY A RECORDING. 1993, LEFT SF FOR IDYLLWILD, THE SUN ALSO RISETH.. PEACE, QUIET, MUSIC, MADE A LOT OF LIVE RECORDINGS IN THE QUIET OF MY HAUNTED TWO STORY DWELLING, MADE FRIENDS WITH COYOTES, PAINTED, WROTE LIKE AN ABBEY AND GOT A VERY SORE WRIST, FROM DRUMMING OF COURSE, LONELY 19/20, LONELY AND WORKING WHEN NOT DRINKING AND WRITING COURSE DIATRIBES TO CHASE THE UNINTERESTED GHOSTS OF MY PAST. ,MARK A BOWIE, LOU PHASE, THE TRAGIC DANY, LION MAULED BY THE HUAL, MET A BLOND, LEFT, FORMING A BAND IN MIND, BUT NEARLY A YEAR OF,UM PALYING DRUMS, YUP, HAD MADE ME HIGHLY PRONE TO MAKING MY OTHER INSTUMENT WORK, THAT QUIET ONE BELOW...SALINAS AGAIN, LOTS OF TIME ON MY HANDS, MADE OFF FROM THE MUSES WITH THE WHEREWITHALL TO ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH A FAIR TO MIDDLING RECORDING, DELVED INTO A LOVE OF BACKWARDS SIGNAL, MADE LOVE TO AN EQ AND FINGER THE LOVELY PEAVY T BASS INTO A SINGLE, THE BLOND LEFT, I FOLLOWED... 1993/94...SANTA CRUZ, TRIAGE OF PSYCHE, MORE MUSIC, SHADOW GODDESS AND REMAKES OF HEART OF AND SUCH, MANY NIGHT STONING MY BRAIN AND HATING MY TALENT, TRIED TO BECOME ASCETIC, FAILED DISTINCTIVELY, MADE A FOOL OF MYSELF AND LEFT SANTA CRUZ LIKE A WET KITTEN, OFF TO THHE FLAT CHESTED FERROUS STREETS OF FONTANA...HELL,5 MONTHS OF PURE HELL...THEN CATALINA ISLAND, THEN RUNNING SPRINGS, THE WHOLE TIME,WRITING, MAKING LOVE TO MY WRIST, BEING BURIED IN A BOOK, LONELY 21, GHETTO SNAP MYSTIC BARBWIRE EYES THEY CALL IT, MADE OFF WITH A BUEAT OF A JEWISH WOMANS HEART, MOVED TO MONTEREY, CAME BACK TO THE HILLS, LEFT...FRISCO...ENCORE... 1994- THRIVING WITH ALL OF THE GENUINE FERVOR OF A TYKE IN A DELIGHTFUL GARDEN WHERE ALL THE BRUSSEL SPROUTS TASTE LIKE CHOCOLATE, GOT INTO THE SPOKEN WORD SCENE AS AN IMPOSTER OF A DEEP THINKER, ACTUALLY WAS OVERQUALIFIED, THE ANGRY BROWS OF THE MUSES REBUKED IN THE FORM OF POLITICAL WRITINGS AND LOVERS STIR CRAZY ENOUGH TO LOVE ME... AND ALL THE BUMPS ON THE HIGHWAY JIM MORRISON FLIPSA BIRD AT US FROM...VERY BUSY GETTING NOWHERE SOCIALLY, A GREAT SECRET LIFE, MADE MANY MISTAKES, MADE SOME LOVELY MOTIONS WITH THE HIPS, THE PEN, THE MOUTH...FORMED ALONG WITH D SCOT MILLER AND COREY O, THE URBAN LEGEND EMULANT BAND OF BLACK POETS KNOWN AS BLACKBARD, LEARNED A LOVE OF PRODUCTION, BIT OFF MORE THAN I COULD CHEW OFTEN ENOUGH IT BECAME NORMAL, DISCOVERED I COULD MANAGE AN ACT, AND THEN STARTED MY OWN SPOKE WORD OPEN MIKE AT THE CAFE INTERNATIONAL. 1995-1998; OPERATION KICK ASS: SHOWWS EVERY WEEK, THE HIKED UP SKIRT OF AN OLDER WOMAN'S HEART IN MY HAND, KISS OF FLAMING LIPS UPON A HEAD FILLED WITH FLAGRANT CLAIMS OF POETICISM, REDHEAD FEVER AFFIXED TO MY BRAIN, LOVED THE WORLD AND WORKED HARD FOR A CRAZY BAOSS IN ORDE TO FINANCE MY OWN SHOWS, HAD DJS, LIVE INSTRUMENTATION, CRAZY FOLK, BLACKBARD, WROTE LIKE IT COULD BRING MALCOLM X BACK, MADE FOREVER TOO MANY MISTAKES,GREW UP A BIT...DISCOVERED DRUGS, GOT A FOUR TRACK TAUGHT MYSELF CLARINET AND SAX AND MADE MELANIN THE OFFICIAL LABEL FOR MY WORK, AS THE OPEN MIKE REQUIRED OF MY TIME THE PREPARATION OF A WEEKLY WOW EM SORT OF PEICE INVOLVING MUSIC, THEREAFTER, FOREVER CORRUPTED BY THE COMBINATION, GOT SO FAR INTO MUSIC I LEFT BEHIND MANY A GAPING POUTING MOUTH GONE PETULANT WITH THE IMPATIENCE NOT BEFITTING AN ARTISTS MATE... DRANKTOO MUCH, DENIED THAT I WAS TOM WAITS AND LEARNED TO DJ... 98-2001-STEADY WORK ON DEVELOPMENT AND SOLIDIFICATION OF THIS PROJECT...MELANIN, CTALOUGE INCLUDES AT LEAST 11 FULL LENGHT ALBUMS OF HOMEMADE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC, AND MANY MORE NOT YET MADE A PART OF THE BROWN UNDERGROUND, BACK THERE, THAT MELANATED STARE...HAVE DECIDED TO JUST GET BUSY, NO MORE LAMENT FOR THE EX, THE CAT, THE LOST FREE MEAL TICKET IN INTERPERSONAL TOXICITY'S KITCHEN, TERRIBLE HASH THERE, I HEAR, HAVING LEFT THE CHURCH OF GIRLFRIEND, I SAY, YOU CANNOT STAND UP OF YOU ARE ON YOUR KNEES ALL THE TIME, NOT BITTER, NOPE JUST A LEMONADE READY AMARILLO SOUL IN MELANIN, PASSION AND GINGER BEER...THANK YOU GOD.

Group Members ANTHONY XAVIER JACKSOP- MUSIC, PRODUCTION, WRITING OF LYRICS,DESIGNER OF LABELS AND TAPES, CUSTODIAN OF RECORDS, FOOL, ENGINEER, OWNER/OPERATOR POF MELANIN. PLAYS GUITAR, BASS, KEYS, DRUMS, CLARINET, ALTO SAK, SINGS, ROLLS OVER, PLAYS... WRITES, EATS, SLEEPS EVERY NOW AND AGAIN. COLLABERATORS: JOSEPH WETHERAL, COURTESY OF EARMUD PRODUCTIONS ELYSIAN,MP3 STARTUP, INSPIRATION, SAN DIEGAN CHARMS... NIKO, THE OFFICIAL ICON OF MELANIN, NIKO IS A CAT, HE HAS NO REAL JOB. UM WHOEBVER ELSE GETS RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY ME AND OTHERS, MELANIN IS A NOINPROFIT CO-OP,YUP, SO TAKE THAT! amber burnet is the member that makes heart go boom boom

Instruments yamaha b300 bass p style, mexican strat, yamaha drum machine, effects keyboards and synths, a gathering of vibrations recognized as a voice, horns, tapes, tascam old school 4 trax, god power, goddess flowers, luck.dimples

Albums a boy has never seen nor dashed a thousand kim, luminous balls of twine # 0-3, the best way to immortality, re(a)d infinity,purgation, the disaster ballet, the soul of a valdez, seen,finding daniel, coming soon, making the clay feet stick...

Press Reviews no reviews in the press as of today, blackbard did get some writeup though 1996, sf bay guardian, methinks.

Location san francisco, california - USA

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