Also:
Gratuitous Vulgarity. Easily offending folks who are easily offendable. Light and the absence thereof. Belatedly correcting grammatical errors in my profile. Finding places where you can still drink the water right outta the ground.
Diminished chords, 'cuz depending on how you skin 'em they can be just about anything you want. Diminished and Augmented patterns are about as close to the godhead master plan as I care to get, with the addition of tequila.
Music, literature, the river, hiking when I can be bothered to get my fat ass off the couch, history, hot springs, music history, geography, comparative theology, arguing about shit strictly for entertainment value, the sound of my own voice, proclaiming my own genius and belittling the perceived short-comings of others, cartography, astronomy, paleontology, linguistics, anthropology, jiggly bootys, history of jiggly bootys. Hammond organs and guitars.
Weird stringed instruments and oddball synths. Choo-choos, steam and otherwise. Electronics(kind of a religious field for me ... Bwana make Ju-ju), information in general.
Making sure my kidlets have all their digits and sensory inputs intact, full bellies and a balanced perspective.
Music
The Pretenders Peter Gabriel Redd Volkaert Cindy Cashdollar Dan Hicks an' his Hot Licks the Thin White Duke !SQUONK! Sco !SQUONK! Soulive David Lindley The Travelling Wilburys Tracy Chapman Robert Cray The Roots opened for Erykah Badu @ Memorial, sweetness. Lowell George Jon Cleary James Taylor Billy Preston Wilson Pickett The Falcons The Beatles Roy Orbison Buddy Holly The Beatles Clarence Carter Lyle Lovett Buck Owens Don Rich Roy Nichols Norah Jones Tom Petty Mike Campbell Van Morrison Curtis Mayfield The Temptations Neil Young Martin Sexton Robert Earl Keen Jr. Bobby Zimmerman The Chieftans The Hawks The Band Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section Little Feat Jr. Brown The Everly Brothers Scotty Moore James Burton The Rev. Al Green Sting writes great jazz tunes that sound like pop, a neat trick... Billy Gibbons !Prince!
D'Angelo,The heir apparent to the crown as far as I'm concerned, he's what all those half-ass MTV "Soul-singers" wish they could be one-tenth of. Good Gospel. Andy Fairweather Lowe. Mike Finnegan. Del Mc Coury and his boys Nina Gerber. Steve Cropper. Duck Dunn Al Jackson Jr. Booker T. Washington.
Taj Mahal CSNY Sons of Champlain Kate Wolf
Soul. If someone says old-school again, I'm gonna puke...I ain't talkin' about that over-produced seventies shit, I mean the real goddamn deal.
The Beatles Afro-pop
BluesBluesBluesChicagoMissisippiTexasSeattleMyMusical Rootage
The Beatles They Might Be Giants
Old Read: Authentic Country, Hillbilly, Bluegrass, New-Grass, Gypsy-Grass, Hippy-Grass, Western Swing, Americana, Old-timey, Dixieland....
The Beatles
Gypsy Jazz Django and associates
The Beatles
Intelligent Hip-Hop KRS-one, B.E.P, etc...
The Beatles
Clunky Jazz Mingus and Monk, Yusef Lateef Juba!
The Beatles
Funk Sly, James Brown, etc.
The Beatles
Reggae Robert Onesta, Toots, Sly and Robbie....
The Beatles
Anything from New Orleans The Meters, Anything with a Neville Brother involved, Doctor John....
The Beatles
Everything under the sun.....As long as it's for real and has soul....Anything with a Hammond in it....with few exceptions...a Hammond, like any other tool, can be used for good or evil..
The Beatles
Los Fucking Lobos! Hendrix, Lotsa Richard Thompson lately.... Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Tower of Power, B.B. King, Steve Winwood, Traffic, Blind Faith, Mike Finnegan, Buddy Guy, Junior Brown, HUBERT SUMLIN!, Chester Aurthur Burnett, Ray Charles, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Marty Robbins, McKinley Morganfield, Charles Mingus, Bonnie Raitt, Joey DeFrancesco, Art Neville , Martin Sexton, Thelonious Monk, Robert Cray, Tito Puente, Chester Thompson, Tom Waits, Bill Kirchen, Danny Elfman, John Scofield, MMW, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, John Jorgensen: Saw him in Sutter Creek of all benighted goddamn wastelands, best twomp I ever spent, Jimmy Smith, Danny Gatton, Buddy Emmons, Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Ben Harper, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Merle Haggard, Merle Travis, Jimmie Vaughn, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimmy Bryant, W.C. Clark, John Hammond, Andrew Bird, ....my daughter's hungry, more later...
Movies
Guy Ritchie's nice... Anything by Tim Burton....'specially if Danny Elfman does the soundtrack....Goddamn, I love me some Danny Elfman. Strangely enough for someone who first experienced conciousness (theoretically) in the eighties, I've never heard a single cut from Oingo-Boingo.
Television
Please to be fucking off....Also, The Simpsons. The greatest contribution the western hemisphere has made to civilization in the past five hundred years. Monty Python when I can find it. The Muppets.
Books
The printed word is my most constant companion, with the possible exception of my guitar. John Steinbeck, Edward Abbey, Mark Twain, Louis L'amour, Tom Robbins, Roald Dahl, Hunter Thompson, Art Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Phillip Jose Farmer, Carl Hiassen, Douglas Adams, Ludlum, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London makes me wanta get a gig @ a foodery. Cereal boxes, road signs, warning labels, toothpaste tubes, those "look at my ass" crushed velvet work-out pants (usually not a lot of plot, pathos, or character development on those)periodicals, junk mail, instructions, liner notes, poetry, bank statements, spaghetti-o's (though they don't have much to say), posters, cardboard boxes...you know, the usual stuff. P.S. Kerouac was a wanker.
Heroes
Roy Fulmer, Clarence Leo Fender, Donald Leslie, Laurens Hammond
Ponderosa High
Shingle Springs, CA
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Obtaining Illegal Pharmaceuticals
Minor: Consuming said Illegal Pharmaceuticals
Clubs: The Non-participatory Organization
Greek:
Lambda Lambda Lambda
I'm a musician ... that's pretty much it. That's what I do (Whazzat you say? No money? What? Shaddap!*grins*)
I teach private lessons here:
Guitar/bass/mandolin/banjo/lap steel/bottleneck/dobro/dulcimer/whatevah. If it has strings on it, I can show you how to make it sound good. I will also take intermediate to advanced keyboard/piano/Hammond organ students
Who I'd like to meet:
Sam Clemens, Dionysius, gingers w/ trust-funds and poor morals ...
miss my bonesy. wtf? call me sometime, i've been lurking around cheap hotels in p.ville just to escape the city. much as i talk shit on hillbillies, i sure seem to hang out in them there hills aplenty.
i want life updates so let's sit down with a brew or a few.
GOD!!! Hey man. I haven't done anything lately that you would care to hear a confession about ...um let me think, Ah yessssssssssssssss!
I put my weener into the mouth of an extremely plus sized woman and I must say... Never again. Yup. It was nice and she was good but I realize why I fantasize about skinny women.
Please find it in your heart to forgive, and I would also like a new car for that one. A thousand dollars?.... um, I gues a thank you will suffice. (suffice; 1
: to meet or satisfy a need
2
: to be competent or capable)
