Somebody buy me that new "'Inspired by Michael Bloomfield 1959 Les Paul!' or I'd settle for the 'Inspired by Joe Bonamassa' version. . . No takers? Okay, then, how a bout a cup of coffee?
Male
62 years old
CHARLESTON, West Virginia
United States
I play music. Some. I used to do more. Mainly I play guitar, but have some skills on other intstruments such as bass, keyboards, and drums. I usually have some form of home studio running. I usually attend and perform at the Open Stage at Unity (as they're calling it now "Coffee House and Open Stage a/k/a CHaOS) the second Friday of every month. I pick up on a few other open mic situations now and then. I used to play in bands and have run sound at the Empty Glass and other venues. I've worked in a couple of real live recording studios and did a CD cover for a band on Capitol Records. Music is good.
Don't like much country or rap. I like anything as long as it's excellent. Actually I like some pretty cheesy things as well. . .
Tommy Emmanuel, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Mongrate, Andy McKee, Pink Floyd, Tony Mottola, Joe Satriani, Dream Theater, Leo Kottke, Opeth, Radiohead, Audioslave, King Crimson, Stanley Jordan, Stanley Clark, Jimi, Janis, Doors, Spock's Beard, LTE, Mae (be), Joe Strummer, B-52's, UB40, James McMurtry, Ten Carp Lie, Freaktent, Devo, Echo & the Bunnymen, Alan Parsons, Staind, Beth Hart, Joss Stone, Minus the Bear, The White Stripes, The Strokes, John Hiatt, Tom Waites, Johnny Winter, Ween, They Might Be Giants, Veruca Salt, BB King, Kaki King, Albert King, Justin King, Buddy Guy, Stan Getz, Tangerine Dream, Andrew Bird, Moby, Patrick Ahearn.
Have you heard Tal Wilkenfeld???? IN-freaking-CREDIBLE. The girl is only 21 and has been playing bass for just four years and she's THAT good? Un-farking-believable! You go girl!!!
I do like Lyle Lovitt, Albert Lee, Tater, the Dixie Chicks, and a few individual country songs. VInce Gill is just all right with me. I like some rap, but not much. Classical, Reggae, Blues, Rock, you name it.
As far as showtunes, give me Meatloaf or give me death.
This is Bob Worth, my son Sean, and me doing a James McMurtry song at Ron Sowell's Open Stage at Unity in October 2008
The Alabama 3: Too Sick to Pray. Thanks to Roadblock for putting this in his song of the day blog.
Movies
The Corporation, The Aristocrats, Secretary, As Good as It Gets, The Hulk, LOTR, Pirates of the Caribbean (all three), Bladerunner, The Seventh Seal, The Exorcist -- Dominion, Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, The Wall, Satyricon, La Dolce Vita, 8-1/2, Lost Highway, Straw Dogs, The Name of the Rose, Greaser's Palace, The Ruling Class, The Magic Christian, Straight to Hell, Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blue Velvet, Blues Brothers, Blade Runner, Sin City, Anything with Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, Salma Hayek, or Nicole Kidman.
I like a lot of offbeat films.
Television
Hockey, Football [college, WVU in particular], Movies,
NCIS, Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, Real Time with Bill Maher, Heroes, Deadwood [RIP], Six Feet Under [RIP], Dead Like Me [RIP], Twin Peaks [RIP], John From Cincinnati, Dexter, Dr. Who (when I can find it), Torchwood (SPOILER ALERT!! Captain Jack Harkness is the Face of Bo), Arrested Development, Star Trek Enterprise reruns, Smallville reruns, True Music with Katie Darrell, HDNet concerts, The Elegant Universe.
Books
Oh, lord. Where to start?
Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Herman Hesse, Dean Koontz, Strunk & WHite, Diana Gabaldon, Patricia Cornwell, Robert Ludlum, PD James, Caleb Carr, Ken Kesey, Robert Anton Wilson, Umberto Eco, Science Fiction, Biography, Non-fiction, Art, most anything as long as it's not insulting to my intelligence.
Heroes
Steve Allen, Ghandi, Alan Ginsberg, Lawrence Fehrlingetti, Herbert Marcuse, Alan Watts, Bill Clinton, Keith Olberman, Albert Lee, Jeff Beck, Jackson Pollock, Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Watts, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Al Gore, Frank Zappa
NOT HEROES:
Bush, Cheney, Anyone affiliated with them, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Jerry Falwell (ding dong, the witch is dead. . .), Katherine Harris, . . . you get the idea.
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I don't know why I preach (yes, I'm ordained) (NO, not like that) against having expectations, yet I have them anyway. I have to get over that. Not having expectations, completely, not mostly, can immunize you against such things as disappointment, fear, and accelerated heart rate at being startled. In themselves, admirable goals, but mostly eliminating expectations will allow you to experience every moment fully. What more could you want?
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Now that I'm old and in the way I watch my dreams and aspirations float slowly away like a paper boat on a lake large enough to have tides. All the scummy bits and rotting tree blossoms, all the dead insects and insoluable dust float back toward me, aggregating at my feet, building a muck with which to shape the rest of my life.
Who I'd like to meet:
The Buddha, on the road, so I can kill him.
Mary Louise Parker, Liberty Frederick, Pat Jones, Michelle West, Bernadette Carter, Billy Bob Thornton, Anne Heche, Tommy Emmanuel, Bill Clinton, George Clinton, Barak Obama, Kaki King, Kofi Annan, Napolean, Mos Def, Tal Wilkenfeld, Dixie Chicks, Jolene Blalock, Roger Watters, Johnny Depp, David Milch, Jesus H. Christ (in haircurlers or not), Steve Allen, Keith Olberman, Eva Green, Mae, Moe, Mao, Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Maynard, Tom Morello, Stephen Hawking, Willem De Kooning, Willem De Foe, David Byrne, Mark Mothersbaugh, Sean Connery, Robin Williams, a working hit man, gallery owners in NYC, Tim Robbins, Tom Robbins, Moby, Michael Moore, John from Cincinnati, Lucy Liu, Jake Shinabukuro, Joe Satriani, Too many musicians to list, David Duchovny, Lou Reed,Shaun, Butchy, Mitch, Cissy, Kai, Bill, Linc, Cass, Tina, Dickstein, Daphne, Freddy, Dr. Smith, Palaka, Ramon, Barry, and Jerri
I relocated the fine flexible females to a Photo Album. If you want to have a gander, you'll have to go there. I couldn't bring myself to get rid of them all though. . .
Thank You for The Add and the Friendship. We are Happy to be your friends.
We are a 7 Month Old Band with a debut CD You Are WELCOME to come and listen. Leaves Us a Comment. Thank you.
Have a Wonderful Extraunordinary Day
The People From Liquid Planet
We can’t move2Miami due2problems with our trailer. We have to stay in NM 4 now. We have rented a boxcar & we R setting our recording studio
Our Debut CD is on iTunes 2 4 Download. Is also available on Amazon MP3, Napster, Rhapsody, Lala, MIVU, Shockhound, LimeWire Store, and eMusic.
To Download it from iTunes click the link below and click and any of the pic. Songs 2 get to our iTunes page. The others stores we don’t know the link.
Since we are not even a year old band is very difficult to get found on searches there many bands with years in and several CD‘s and we don‘t show on SEARCHES. You can Help us. We will apreciate if you could pass by our iTunes page and RATE US
Just fallow the ling above and click a song link to get in our page. There under the CD PIC you will see CUSTOMER RATINGS gives us somme stars so we can move up on searches. Thank You.
Don’t miss 2 listen the CD in our page full CD Stream. Is a good idea to fallow the song through since they have many changes you will not be disappointed. Gives a comment of you opinion. We don’t mind criticism and we don’t censure.
The Rose and Ben Band would like to thank you so very much for your friendship and support. And appreciate you accepting our invitation, VOICE IT IN MUSIC.
Hey man, I have a friend or two who might need to be deprogrammed from their current state of being. They're "Beckers." It breaks my heart, because when i tell them he's batcrap crazy, they squirm to defend the Jim Jones type character. Be afraid of the government said Jim Jones! Be afraid.....said he.
Looking for something FREE to do this Thursday night? Come one down to the Blue Parrot at 12 Capital St for the Thirsty Thursday Throwdown! Live music from the Rabble Rousers, Drew Carter & the Family Conspiracy, Spirit Molecule and more! 21+ to enter No Cover Live music from 10 until the bar closes Hope to see you there!
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