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Cosmic Patriot

Album: Cosmic Patriot

Released: Mar 10, 2009

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Cosmic Patriot
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Lost My Technique
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Genre: Experimental / Other / Visual
Location US
Profile Views: 31909
Last Login: 9/19/2012
Member Since 4/9/2008
Website www.soundsfamilyre.com
Record Label Sounds Familyre
Type of Label Indie
Bio
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. Southern California sand and surf; a father's rich baritone and the Methodist Hymnal; guitar, western movies and the Arizona desert, wrestling under pressure; Syracuse art major; love, psychedelia, first songs; a derelict troubadour on the run; Portland, Oregon, my adopted green town; my best friend & I are married by Swami Nitya; off to the woods, a pup tent our first home; life among the groaning trees; I build a house..become a seedsman in the Gifford Pinchot, dig fire line, do drawings of muddy people; move back to Stumptown, make music, raise amazing kids, love Jesus, thrash in the band Subterranean Cafe, record several records, discover Dostoevsky and Nicholas Berdyaev, seek freedom from religiosity, drive a very large moving van to New Jersey,meet Daniel Smith, record first CD for Sounds Familyre; paint a lot; work doggedly among books, music & movies; sit and read with my love on the beach; seek dialectic..court surprise.
Members
Dan Zimmerman (guitar, vocals), Tony Jones (guitar), Wayne Taussig (bass), Eric Thomas (percussion)
Influences
The Methodist Hymnal, early Rock n' Roll (1954-1963), The Everly Brothers, Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley, instrumental surf music, Howlin' Wolf, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Mothers of Invention, Gram Parsons, Lefty Frizzell, Love, Doors, Youngbloods, Tim Buckley, Fred Neil, Television, Ramones, Fleet Foxes, Bach, Brahms, Charles Ives...and now some jazz..Miles Davis, Coltrane..
Sounds Like
.. Sounds like nobody! Well, okay, I'll try: a soulful, bluesy, rockabilly quest for the ultimate folk/jazz dialectic.. .. .. .. ...... ..

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Bio:

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writing, drawing, guitar, preacher's kid
surfing, surging hormonal havoc
the desert, wrestling, more hormonal and then family havoc
love & psychedelia, painting, NYC, drums,first songs
Zappanese troubadour, derelict on the run
art museum guard, Vincent Van Gogh, Robin
Portland, Oregon: my adopted green town, married by Swami Nitya
near Carson, WA: a pup tent our first home, groaning trees, I build a house
working in the forest, fighting fire on Mt. St. Helens
back to town, much music, kids growing up
Portland, Oregon:among the Jesus people,Subterranean Cafe, Nicholas Berdyaev,
New Jersey:Russian Orthodoxy,Sounds Familyre, books, music & movies

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April 09, 2008

Members:

The puzzle that is myself and..through the years an array of creative collaborators..including: Robert Illes, Gary Graham, Herk Kirk, John Weissman, Ray Gustke, Jamez Chancellor, Chris Chesser, Ernie Gradillas, Tomas Snyder, Jim Brady, Michael Ronstadt, Timothy Hill, Bruce Fandrei, Steve Bakunas, Sean Boyle, Gordon Hall, Chuck Smith, Blair Stevenson, Roderick & Linda Smith,Byron Renderer, Tad Suckling, Craig & Lori Russell, Tom Peterson, Terry Dusenberry, Dave Lawton, Don Burch, Gary Edwards, David Ray, Tim McAllister, Dennis Childers, David Robinson, Tony & Jane Tuck, Daniel Smith, Lenny Smith,Ted & Anita Velykis, Tony Jones, Eric Thomas, Christiaan Palladino, Joshua Stamper, Ambrose Liu, Emil Nicolaisen, Jason Kourkounis, Josiah Wolf, Gie Jin, Tom Florek, Malachi Matcho, Patrick Berkery.. If I have forgotten anybody (and I must have), I'll add the names as they come to me.

Influences:

Gilbert S. Zimmerman (Boompa), The Methodist Hymnal, campfire songs, The Golden Age of American Rock n' Roll (1954-1963), Corriganville, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Mad Magazine, The Everly Brothers (and later The Louvins), Ricky Nelson (and his band), Elvis Presley (and his band), instrumental surf music, The Left Banke, The Byrds, early Beatles, early Stones, Bob Dylan (especially Dylan), The Mothers of Invention, Gram Parsons, Tiny Tim, Love, The Doors, The Youngbloods, The Lovin' Spoonful, Tim Buckley, Fred Neil, Tim Hardin, Richie Havens, a lot of Punk and Indie Rock, The Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense", Television (Tom Verlaine and Buddy Holly are my favorite guitarists), The Minutemen, The Replacements, Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes, Joanna Newsom, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock, Charles Burchfield, Bach, Brahms, Charles Ives, and the writers who helped me find a living context for faith: Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Nicolas Berdyaev and Teilhard de Chardin.