Graham Halliday on most things most of the time. other players have included DJ Urinal Cake [G also is usually part of DJUC's live act], Frankie Death, Mr Bollinger, Keegan from the Russian Brides, Liz & Brad, The Farnz & other Vocabularinist members, & many sampled folk.
Influences
Public Enemy, Frank Zappa, Syd Barrett, Beck [haven't owned anything after Midnite Vultures, though he seems to do alright covers for film soundtrax now], Vocabularinist, Ornette Coleman, Dinosaur jr, Sonic Youth, Bjork [where's the umlauts when you need 'em?], Nirvana ["when I was an alien, cultures weren't opinions"], CAN, Velvet Underground, Miles Davis [don't know what to think of new tv ads for 'cool & collected' the latest in an endless stream rehash comps, though getting more folks exposed has to be a good thing right?], Captain Beefheart [not forgetting His Magic Band], THE FALL, John & Alice Coltrane, Funkadelic, Don Cherry, Neu!, David Bowie, PAVEMENT, Thelonious Monk, Liars, Patti Smith group, the Byrds [1st 5 albums anyway], Aphex Twin, the Bobs Dylan & Marley, DJ Spooky & ze fab 4. etc: record collecting is a disturbing addiction, i have even been secretly filmed at glebe markets going thru 12" racks for a video clip by Sydney dj Katalyst who i don't know too well but he seems to have decent taste. Read more about Huxley's Island @ <"http://www.island.org/Huxley/">
Sounds Like
going from what others have said: Derek Bailey, Syd Barrett, "Sonic Youth, Hendrix & even stoner rock", Beefheart, Sigue sigue sputnik!?, "66 seconds of my life that i want back", "for those who think they've heard it all, they haven't"...
mp3.com.au/FUNKMEISTERG
"hey Graham,
Your music sounds a bit better these days, but you really shouldn't sing... "
BEFORE I BEGIN, IF YOU'VE LEFT MESSAGES/EMAILS & GOT NO RESPONSE IT'S PROBABLY BECUZ I ONLY GO TO THE LIBRARY VERY OCCASIONALLY [& I still haven't paid the fees for taking 4+ months to return the Naked Lunch & John and Yoko on the Dick Cavett Show DVDs yet either] + the actual email has more than 1600 unread new messages [mostly advertising crap or pandering to my long since outfaded insecurities] & IF YOU REALLY WANT MY ATTENTION WRITE TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS [GOOD FOR PASSING THINGS ON TO FRANKIE DEATH OR D.J URINAL CAKE ALSO]:
P.O. BOX 73 WESTGATE NSW 2048 AUSTRALIA
(or you might find me at my day job moving patients around @ RPA Hospital if you're lucky)
the basics about Funkmeister G:
Bandleader or solo act. Played Big Day Out, Vic On The Park, Annandale Hotel, Newcastle Young Writers Festival, etc. Internet music pioneer. Appearances on albums by Vocabularinist. Radio show ‘Serious Delirium’ on 2RRR 88.5fm [Ryde Regional Radio]. Published ‘Chunky Yet Funky’ magazine from 1997-2003. New band since 2005 is SQUEEGEED CLEAN. that bit all above was taken from one version of a resume I briefly put up here and not one bugger offered me a job. what i mean by "Internet music pioneer" is that I started putting up mp3s as soon as I heard of the concept way back in nineteen ninety nine. then funnily enough by the time everyone's grandad and his dog got an ipod i couldn't afford one & was slightly scared off by them and went luddite and my mobile phone is the primitive type sans pics, videos & fancy bits. i figure if i want to take photos i'll get a real tangible camera etc. the annoying thing is a cd walkman thing which back in 1995 was too kool fer skool is now seen as far too clunky & cumbersome to be bothered taking on the daily commute that drives you mad[der] as you try to exist in the striaght world & occasionally need reminding that you're some sort of creative artistic type and that's your real job even if you can't paid by the hour for it. hmmm, i'm impressed, i haven't rambled in type like this for some time, could be all that kerouac & HST I'm re-reading. anyway i've been a lazy bugger and should consider actually putting on shows again, it seems hard when you barely ever you to them as apunter anymore thru poverty and annoyance with music scene types. and of course having embarrassed yourself and those around you more than once. I just need to remind myself to ignore those that think the music sucks and remember those that do get into it. that's enough for now i suppose. grazza, melbourne cup day.
Vocabularinist's recent album MONKEY BRAINS CONTROLLING ROBOT ARMS features me on a few tracks, especially on Not Jazz All Graz. There's another couple of albums coming from them, Vardoker, a more semi-sane one, & the one after that so far untitled [or maybe just 'the vokabz'], which has a lot of inbetween noisy bits we're working on to continue the style of 1999 debut mindblower Hasznasznisznasz. anyway a couple of those songs are on myspace.com/vocabularinist . also my other band is at myspace.com/squeegeedclean , more instrumental experimental and just plain mental. I highly recommend Low Rise Estate, Fabulous Diamonds, Go Genre Everything, Karate Party, Ground Components, Team Collate, Mass Debate, Ruins & Batrider amongst the lot of great antipodean soundz to be found here.
ye olde profile blurb:
I'm somewhat of an introvert like many performer/artist types but when i get on a stage on on air, tape etc i tend to let loose & similarly i don't walk up and talk to people without an intro too often and when i do finally talk i ramble on and on & this definitely shows up in my writing, such as the previous bio thing here which i'm attempting to edit/redo now. see that was all one sentence though of questionable grammar/syntax. see i'm already replacing one longwinded tangential dribblefest with another and wonder why everyone gets confused. maybe it's because i'm equally as confused by the world around me. below are some album/single covers, good luck finding the buggers anywhere [most quite limited editions]. uh, anyway i am responsible for the following:
a radio show called the SERIOUS DELIRIUM hour on occasional Saturday arvos on Sydney's 2RRR 88.5fm [a much smaller community station than Melbourne's legendary 3RRR], the bands SQUEEGEED CLEAN [sidelong prog jam free jazz freakout home recorded type stuff with many guest improvisors], FUNKMEISTER G & THE JOHN RA BENDERS [slightly more song-based version of above with songs from long-suffering solo career & more theatrics], & not responsible for but often contributing to the whirlpool of creativity [un]known as VOCABULARiNiST. & often up for more. I play [or play with like a toy]: alto sax, misc guitars & bass, kaoss pad, dr sampler, misc keyboards/piano, tape manipulations, etc. & sing/act. my 1st public thing was a fanzine called CHUNKY YET FUNKY which i did in my late teens [it was the late 90s zine craze & I was inspired by the likes of Bar Code The World, Psychobabble, City of Soap, etc] interviewing local and touring bands incl. Nic Dalton, Smudge, Moler, Custard, & even a long distance one with Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black, not to mention Senator Bob Brown. I started early putting mp3s of my lofi electronic creations & talking of albums that would come out but never did on a label called BULBOUS CONFUSION. anyway that's enough of a CV sort of thing for now. I can usually be found floating down Enmore Road/ King Street and as i sadi i rarely make the 1st person if i don't know the name to match a face but if you talk to me 1st i'll talk and even listen. about the tracks above, 2 are from a collaborative mini-album with FRANKIE DEATH called The Horrible Hoo-Ha [those tunes being Galactus & The New You]. the others may vary from time to time [e.g. "uploaded new song 'Shaved & Depraved' which is technically a Squeegeed Clean track but we haven't made websites or put anything out yet [though we've recorded 3 or more albums worth & are going to get a whole bunch of freaks to remix them into further psychedismal oblivion] nor done a real gig [except sort of at Wedstock'05]. this replaces the Mr Bollinger mix of ye olde Who Got Da Fonk? which you can hear elsewhere at mp3.com.au where there's also a bucketload of otherwise unreleased FMG experimental trax and some old classics."].
p.s. "funkmeister" translates to 'radio master' in German, although he's Irish, & the G just for his real name Graham. so do not necessarily expect slap bass. the following pic i found googling for simple 'funk' images like the current probably highly copyrighted background, anyway there's a bunch more amusing/clever ones there... toothpastefordinner.com I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
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no its cool was too expensive anyway in a rent week! sure they'll be stuff on next weekend i'll have a suss and see if there's anything good about. see ya then man
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what the fuck is going on on your page dude!? i thought i was underwater for a second there, shit it put me off balance, i dont think your being very wonky person friendly there mate, think of the rummies, the goomies....the goonies! the young, the silly the DOOMED! i cannot read a thing you bastard give the fans what they want, we want the uncut funk not the shit with chicken salt dammit....
funk! run! drop what you're doing right now!!! and go get a copy of Psycroptic's new cd (ob)servant its fucking killer! you must! as a rashid ali insane drum union member this is one record you have to hear, holy shit its scary.......hurry!!!!!
completely off the track: look for Gonzo by Jann werner & corey seymour - a hst bio but in the form of interviews with family friends and associates........bloody fantastic and reveals a lot no other book on him does.........so go get it before i start knawin' on yr skull!
only coz you cut it off and sprinkle it around the house, i bet you didnt realise i kept all the hair you trimmed off in enmore and glued it all back together into something resembling a sticky chewbacca. i have it here with me in bed its my new girlfriend and or stuff. ciao you fearless freak!
