Alabama 3, Chet Atkins, Beatles, David Bowie, Cake, Canned Heat, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Brian Eno, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Funkadelic, George Gershwin, Stephane Grappelli, Jimi Hendrix, Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, Incredible String Band, Charles Ives, Daniel Johnston, Spike Jones, Kinks, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Lemon Jelly, Louvin Brothers, Henry Mancini, Charles Mingus, Willie Nelson, Harry Nilsson, Ohio Players, Buck Owens, Les Paul, Propellerheads, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Quintron, Django Reinhardt, Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, Sons of the Pioneers, Tower of Power, T.Rex, Ultravox, Uriah Heep, Edgard Varese, Ventures, Tom Waits, Bob Wills, X, XTC, Weird Al Yankovich, Yes, Frank Zappa, ZZ Top
I'm Tilden, I play (guitar, bass, mandolin, keyboards, percussion, recorder, sax), sing and create interesting noises.
Also I run sound for and play a little mandolin & guitar with CrossPoint, a fine bar band based in the Twin Cities.
I play bass with Bruce K to jazz it up in various Twin Cities drinking establishments (coffee, anyone?) using the name Who's Playing? . . .
The sounds on these songs all were created by me
. . . except Hey You Robot (distance lab) which my friend DJ Shadowkat sent me as an MP3 of drum & synth. I added bass, guitars & harmonica to turn it into the track heard here.
. . . and except Persia, which was improvised with my friends Paul (congas & warmongering) and Mike (guitar & cool head), then I sliced & diced the recording.
Finally, some words to live by -- as true for music as they are for life:
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. -- Yogi Berra
