Brock Simpson

Bio:

I started picking out chords on the piano after listening to 'Crocodile Rock' on an eight track. Did the typical puberty switch to six-string, recording with a seventies 'Fun Machine' and a Canadian Tire reel-to-reel. Began playing coffee houses in the late eighties, and I've been performing acoustic solo gigs, albeit sporadically, ever since. In that time I've also written the music and lyrics for a half-a-dozen or so stage musicals - including "Lust's Labour's Lost", based on Shakespeare's comedy. Currently working on songs for a second CD tentatively called 'Love Dies Hard'. (

Member Since:

January 25, 2006

Members:

My record "Polymythical" was engineered, produced by Tim Abraham (of The Hive). It's even available in stores: three stores, that is: Theatrebooks (11 St. Thomas), Sonic Boom (512 Bloor st.) and Soundscapes (572 College St.) And at: – www.indiepool.com/B019 (that's B - zero - one - nine!)

Influences:

The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Joni, Tom Waits, Paul Simon, Frank Loesser, Stephen Sondheim, Gilles Vigneault, Michel Rivard, Jacques Brel, Serge Fiori, Harmonium, Beau Dommage, Laura Nyro, Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Bruce Cockburn, Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg, Stan Rogers - The Vestrymen, The Association, The Zombies, The Carpenters, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Fifth Dimension, The Roches, Jimmy Webb, David Bowie, Betty Carter, Bacharach and David, Carl Sanburg's Songbag, the Scottish folk settings of Robbie Burns, the songs of Shakespeare, Schubert, Schumann, and Grieg. Additionally: Southern California, Budapest, Lake Simcoe, The Autobiography of Malcom X, Winter, Paul Robeson, Buster Keaton, Dr. Norman Bethune.

Sounds Like:

A Tin Pan Alley composer, stolen at birth, and raised by hippies.