cheese making,(kidding) sheparding(kidding),sitting,ye olde THANGS!!! breathing. shape shifting,reading about how Jesus never existed,daily Kos, 78's, and ,um, i forget
Music
good music as opposed to bad music........as Roy Eldridge said "the material is immaterial"
Movies
who cares...
Television
............ the home and garden channel really puts me to sleep!! which is a good thing!! public access and the weird international channel..and when i go visit my dad in ohio, i like the really over the top "Jeebus" channels, there are a lot of them there... they scare me, but i need to know who the enemy is.....
Books
the "Christ Conspiracy" by Acharya s.,"Listen Little Man" Wilhelm Reich,"Something Wicked This Way Comes"Ray Bradbury, "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash", anything by Hen Miller, more later. I'm tired!!!!!
About me:
I am a multi-instumentalist,but mainly a sax and clarinet guy...i mess around ..s, lap steel, uke, and ethnic do- dads, was born in Akron Ohio in da 1950's...i have been playing professionaly since 1978 when my first band "Tin Huey" got a record deal with Warner brothers. I have since recorded and toured with "the B52's,Tom Waits" was in the Tom Waits "in concert" film "BIG TIME" and I have done countless recording sessions over the years with Oranj Symphonette,Jonathan Richman,Danny Cohen, Jim White, Victoria Williams, Galaxie 500, Elvis Costello,Chuck Prophet,Penelope Houston,Marc Ribot, Swollen Monkeys, "Carney,Hild,Kramer", Daeved Allen,Allen Ginsburg, Kathy Acker,Clarinet thing,Steve Yerkey,Tipsy, William Buroughs.I am on the new "Harry Smith Project" box set and the upcoming Tom Waits "Orphans" box set..although I didn't get no money from them!!! and countless others...(i will fill them in later) I have 3 solo records out, "Ralph Sounds" "I like you(a-lot)" and "this is Ralph Carney!" my current band'"Carneyball Johnson"HAS A NEW C.D.!! it is now available at C.D.BABY.COM p.s. yes, I am Patrick Carney's(the Black Keys) uncle!!!!
....also,until we have the paypal thing going on our website"carneyballjohnson.com" you can write to us at "cbjinfo@akroncracker.com" and you can buy one there.....
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Who I'd like to meet: John Coltrane, Spike Jones, Duke Ellington,Carolyn Jones,Elizibeth Montgomerey(i know, they are all dead!!) alive, let's see.....Karl Rove(so i could force feed him jelly donuts!! and make him listen to Carneyball Johnson for 24 hours straight) everyone on my friends list, um.um.um.... Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Robert Wyatt,Patrick Fitgerald...Acharya S. too many to list arrrrgh!!!!!
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, as we get ready for our monthlong tour of the Great Northwest! Check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J
Look for us in Washington, Oregon and California between October 15 and November 15, when our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
We are finally ready to start promoting my 'I Surrender' single with my album, 'Ella Trip' coming right after -yey!! What d'ya think to the video teaser?
Please drop by my page & comment on the new 'I Surrender' remixes as well, I'd love to know what u think of all the newness!
Peculiar Pretzelmadness descends on San Francisco Tuesday night at Hemlock Tavern. Stomping and hollering with old and true comrades in arms, Deathat and Corpus Collasum! $7!
