I like music and spend a lot of my time playing it in a band. I play the dobro or resophonic guitar as some call it or the drop steel as some others call it (but not many... is it possible to have an inside joke with only yourself?). I play in a couple bands... i just started playing full-time with GREENSKY BLUEGRASS and have spent the last two years on the road with the WAYWORD SONS with Benny Galloway and company(yes there will be more Sons shows, fret not)... i also play in a couple side projects, GRATEFUL GRASS with Pete Kartsounes, Anthony Hannigan, and Kevin Malone, among them.
Other than music i like to be outside. I ski... ALOT.
Thats all for now, as i am tired and drunk.
Music
music... yes please.
As far as what i like... it varies a lot. I used to be a hippie (and secretly still am... shhhh, its a secret). Saw lots of Grateful Dead shows and Phish shows in my younger days, then found bluegrass music and what can i say, it struck a chord wit me.
My favorite thing about playing music is its ability to make people feel certain ways. In this day and age, if you can make someone smile, then what you are doing qualifies as a noble cause.
Here, for a little while is a tribute to pure fucking rock and roll! A video of Jimi at Monterey Pop. Watch the whole thing:
Here is the best scene from any movie in history of the world (and includes the real way to take a shot of tequila)...
Movies
The Hokie Pokie Is Not What It Is All About. THIS IS: (just fastforward to 3 and a half minutes in if you are in a hurry.)
Television
Lost... i used to make fun of shows like this, but now have gone back and watched the whole thing. Weeds is cool, Entourage Californication.
I dont actually have a television, but my computer helps with that.
Here's a classic Belushi skit from SNL with Joe Cocker:
Books
Shantaram- read this book or we are not friends anymore, not even fake myspace friends.
also, Tom Robbins... i cant get enough of that guy right now. I've read it all and then start to reread it.
Edward Abbey... i cant realy ever get enough of him, either, be is fiction or fact.... My favorite thing about him and his writing is the ability to convey the idea that the saint and the sinner can all be found within one person. They really arent too far apart, ya know?
About me: OK... time to update myspace. About me, you want to know, eh? Well, i play the dobro and lap steel guitar in Greensky Bluegrass, The Wayword Sons and a bunch of other side projects, too... Now That that is out of the way, lets get serious! i like puppies, long walks on the beach, making an ass out of myself, skinny-skiing, girls, women, micheal jackson jokes, you know.. the usual.
I was born two months premature, which was a big deal in 1977. i started playing the drums when i was 9 years old, guitar when i was 12 (both at the same time for a few years. Had a lot of great friends in high school... was a "cool kid", won a few Pennsylvania State Championships in a lacrosse team. I turned into a hippie and started listening to a lot of grateful dead and, later, phish. My parents were cool enough to let me go to 30-some Dead shows, a lot of which were on school-nights, even a three night run. I still thank them for that. I've been on tour with phish and saw a hundred and thirty-some of their shows back before they became disco-ized. It was fun. it was always about the music for me.
I went to college in Colorado Springs, majored in Environmental Economics with an emphasis on Political Science so that i could save the world (my contributions have yet actually be proven to have saved the world, but its a long term study on a global scale so it may take a while). I moved To Fernie, British Columbia for a winter to be a ski-bum ... skied every day. Thought about becoming a pro-skier or a guide or a patroller, but figured i would rather do very dangerous things for fun than for money, it might cloud my vision. Moved back to Colorado, Durango this time and became the Executive Director of Friends of The Animas River, thereby using my degree and saving the world, or at least on little part of it. Working as an environmentalist is hard, you don't win battles very often, but you get lots of girls and money... just kidding.
Around this time, i went to Telluride Bluegrass Festival and walked by a dobro workshop one morning... people who would later become my heroes and friends were playing for about 100 people on a small stage. i was transfixed. this was the instrument that i wanted to play. it was like the electric guitar of the acoustic music that i was becoming hooked on. Two days later, i bought a dobro and started playing it. Now thats what i do for a living. Thats all for now, maybe more later... or at least some editing to make myself sound cooler than i really am (this is, of course all lies... i am actually a 300 lb black woman with internet access). Peace and Carrots,-Anders
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Here's Me and my band Greensky Bluegrass playing "King of The Hill" ast New Year's Eve:
King of the Hill .. Add to My Profile | More Videos Here's Me and The Wayword Sons with my buddy, Travis. He's singing "Travellin' Teardrop Blues" with us:
Who I'd like to meet: Jimmy Buffet, Bill Clinton, Buck Buckner, The Three Stooges, The Easter Bunny, God, Eric Clapton. people i've lost touch with over the years and other people, too. Musical people, people that make me laugh (like wake up the next morning with a stomachache laugh), people that make me think, too.
Okay, so I'm sure you won't be extremely surprised by this, but my dad made a lap steel for me this Christmas. Any suggestions on how to start to learn to play it? I understand the basic principles of course, but some direction would be great. Especially coming from such an accomplished and congenial person such as yourself. Other than that, how ya been you bastard? I miss the budget inn game. That's good ole' fashioned American Fun. Also, the inability to play Fact or trout has been bothering me. Where are you going in CO? I'm in Denver right know, but will probably head back to DGO soon - 2nd or 4th ish.
Greenski's finally getting back to Montana but you're playing The Filler in Bozeman on a Saturday night?! Don't you know I WORK on Sundays, dewd?!?! I believe you said your booking people were going to check my availability first, but NOOOOOOOOO!!! Fine, be that way. [chuckle...]
Hey, we've got the same Scott Law tune on our profile player??? Yet more proof of our soul-brothers-of-different-mothers status.
so im definitely making a judgment call with the Trey photograph. One has the full guitar but the other has more guitar-to-photo ratio but shows less of the guitar...I guess I will get to surprise ya
Hey Anders. Hope your good brother. I believe your in the city....You know...."THE CITY" Hope you survive. Im at home chillin. Literally...Its frickin cold out here. Hey I posted some PKB from the Boulder Theatre last Saturday. Have a listen yo and hope to play soon.
And-ers Beek!!! You look smokin fine in that polka/circle dotted purple number and those glasses my my! Im comin home for turkey day and im thinkin of drinkin a bells friday night with my favorite Kalamazooers!! Cant wait to see ya! HOpe you're well and lovin life!!
Thanks for the awesome show in Mesa on Friday, Anders.. Oh, and my mom said come back soon.. She had such a blast ragin it at the show.. She was such a trooper! Here's a couple of my fave pix of you.. Hope you like them!
It makes me sad that I have lost my friend to the sex, drugs, rock n roll lifestyle...er maybe it's one part sad and three parts envy. Whatever, hope you're doing well. xoxoxo
You miss me? Then hie your pasty white ass up to Montana and come VISIT US! You know you're always welcome, and you also know we're not just saying that. Mmmmm, barbeque & beer, sitting around telling stories, walking along the upper Missouri River -- GET HERE!
