| Influences | i love and am inspired by the output of many many musicians, but my biggest influences - the ones who got there first, so to speak - are (chronologically) randy rhoads, frank zappa, cacophony, dmitri shostakovich, and caetano veloso.
In addition, here is a brief list of inspirations, in random order: jacques brel, fryderyk chopin, rasputina, david garza, azita, judee sill, kid creole and the coconuts, jason becker, komeda, henry cowell, jorge ben, nirvana, jimi hendrix, bill withers, brian wilson, marty friedman, paulihno da viola, charles mingus, sibylle baier, beck, alfred schnittke, cafe tacuba, john coltrane, betrand burgalat, xtc, thomas tallis, joe meek, sally, tears for fears, edvard grieg, the buzzcocks, eric matthews, shannon wright, jimmy cliff, babes in toyland, harry nilsson, queen, april march, sones mexicanos, sister rosetta tharpe, serge gainsbourg, rufus wainwright, los lobos, conlon nancarrow, leonard cohen, pixies, beth carvalho, igor stravinsky, george brassens, jean sibelius, switchblade symphony, robert graettinger, steve vai, claude debussy, the walkie-talkies, magnetic fields, the 6ths, gothic archies, richard wagner, mike nicolosi, brendan benson, flim flam man, minotaur, brian berta, the names, charlie christian, split enz, krzysztof penderecki, captain beefheart, lamajamal, j.s. bach, right-eye rita, arnold schoenberg, prince, the essex green, mr. fuckhead, carl orff, george moustaki, jagoff, henryk gorecki, the apples in stereo, coe douglas, sparks, brigitte fontaine, jeff buckley, sergey prokofiev, quasi, zarzuelas, mr. w.a. mozart, e.l.o., the muffs, david bowie, ruth crawford seeger, marcos valle, philip glass, eggstone, jason falkner, longpigs, sonny rollins, the cupcakes, the residents, radiohead, chris seger, the beatles, dagmar krause, the its!, tom ze, lili boulanger, duke ellington, paco de lucia, el camaron de la isla, charlie parker, 31 flies, aimee mann, george bizet, grandaddy, ween, thelonious monk, simon and garfunkle, big star, joseph arthur, elliott smith, sambas de enredo, giovanni battista pergolesi, cinderella, weezer, the cardigans, marc bolan, kurt weill, syd barrett, and on and beyond into the worlds of film, literature (fictional and non), the visual arts, life itself, and many of the great minds and personalities past, present (some of whom I've had the pleasure to know) and future: the richest music tends to have roots in things utterly non-musical.
-dan |
