Just Craig, augmented by various combos of the following: the Slingerlands, the yellow bass, misc electric guitars, dad's J-45, the occasional Casio, the TASCAM, two rather disappointing condenser mics and a half-functional starved plate mic pre, mood lighting, hoppy beers, etc.
Influences
Musically, I'm mostly interested in exploring more and more arcane old stuff I haven't heard yet that sounds like old stuff I already like: the Kinks, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Zombies, the Who, Black Sabbath, MC5, The Nerves, Silver Jews, Big Star, pre-Rollins Black Flag, My Bloody Valentine, Howlin' Wolf, American Analog Set, Buck Owens, the Byrds, Minutemen, Sebadoh, X (the band), the Records, Flying Burrito Bros, Captain Beefheart, Back From the Grave/Pebbles-style garage, the Clash, and so on. Music is important to me, and my tastes are pretty broad.
I'm also interested in the way Geezer Butler makes the bass sound, the contrast between night sky and clouds, good beers and the places in which they are drunk, Yasunari Kawabata, cats that will let you pick them up like a baby, reading "Suttree" by Cormac McCarthy every few years, muscadine wine, Raymond Carver's short stories, messing around in other people's trash (literally, not figuratively), amps with 10” speakers, old LPs, old guitars, and old things in general; and... breakfast.
hope to start mailin out sermon popgun cd's to random record stores this fall, n now that rovenko is doing graphic design, i'd like to use that as a cover; ahh, the days when i wore a purple doorag an really wanted to be yer friend
Thank you SOOOOOOOOO much for the CD. I haven't heard those songs in years. They really stand up to the test of time. No joke. Cheers indeed my friend. -Mark
