MEMBER. SINGULAR. I AM CHAINSAW, CHAINSAW IS ME. ERGO: CHAINSAW=FEEDBACK MANIPULATION/GUITAR/DRUM MACHINE/VOCALS/HARMONICA/EFFECT PEDALS/KEYBOARDS/WORDS/ART/ENGINEERING

I either sound very much or nothing like all of these people. Influences affect the way I think about music in some cases more than how I sound. I have taken in alot from alot of people and some tends to squeeze back out the seams. That said... Tom Waits, Godflesh, Neurosis, Reservoir, Non, Quicksand, Handsome, Semi-Pro, The first Pitch Shifter record with the picture of the bug, Salvo Rain, Rein Sanction, TAD, WarPrayer,It Could Be Nothing, Semi Pro, Smear Campaign, The Tape Is Now The Music, Kudzu Ganja, Dirty Box, Clutch,Lab Report, Skinny Puppy,Music from Doctor Who, Spahn Ranch, Seraph Of Treason, Fluorescent, Overcast, Earth Crisis (first album), Agnostic Front, Mark Lanegan, Johnny Dowd, Screaming Trees, Halo, Nick Cave, Nick Drake,Bauhaus, Neil Young, Traveling Wilburys, ZZ Top, Social D, My Bloody Valentine, Rose Chronicles, Indigo Girls, Sick Of It All, Slowdive, Mastodon, Kyuss, Sleep,Dead Can Dance, Ublisch,TheStyleKings,Grief, Kerosene 454, Lazy Cain, Logical Nonsense, Rex, Codeine, Kilgore Smudge, Deftones, Dir En Grey, Grimple, Travis Rayle, Harvey Milk, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Spring Heel Jack, Mountain, Johnny Winter (NOT EDGAR)...

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