Giannis Despotakis

Milford Graves the most influential beeing in every aspect of my lfe,Sunny Murray,Albert Ayler,Antonis Aniseggos,Cecyl Taylor,John Zorn,Kostas Anastasiadis my mentor,Nihat Yarciloglu my tabla teacher-my bapu,Satnam Ghai my first tabla teacher-my maharishi,John Coltrane,Ornete Coleman,Sun Ra,Don Chery,Art Ensemble Of Chicago,David Murray,Gill Scott Heron,Keith Jarret,Bud Powel,Art Tatum,Rud Roswel,Elvin Jones,my teacher Nikos Kapilidis-the jazz utopia-for 3 years ,who has my everlasting gratitude+eternal respect,Bill Hicks-the prophet of our time-Panagiotis Athanasopoulos,Floros Floridis,Tony Back,Mark Dereser,Clayton Thomas,Gunter Baby Sommers,Jim Morrison,Paco de Lucia,Camaron de la Isla,Demetrio Stratos the greatest vocalist ever lived, Bob Mcferrin,Jimi Hendrix,Steve Gadd,John Henry Bonham,Cliff Burton,Art Blakey,Omar Hakim,Billy Cobham, ,Randy Rhoads,Stevie Wonder,Sly Stone,,Rage Against The Machine,Charles Mingus,Eddie Gomez,Jack Kerouac,Gregory Corso,Ferlingeti,Allen Ginsberg,William Buroughs,Jim Jarmush,Gus Van Zandt,Kurt Cobain,Alice in Chains,Ustad Alla Rakha, Ustad Zakir Husain,Ustad Ahmet Misirli,Gandi,Ravi Shankar,H.P.Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe,Tim Burton,William Blake,Mickey Dee,Cozy Powell,Lenny White,Steve Hass,Stewart Copeland,John Densmore, Danny Carey+Tool,Frank Zappa,Phil Collins,Al Foster,Tomas Haake+Meshuggah,Horacio Hernandez,Bruce Cox,Mitch Mitchel,Airto Moreira,Buddy Miles,Jeff Porcaro,Animal-muppet show-, Simon Phillips,Dannie Richmond,Nathaniel Townsley the 3rd, Tony Williams,Max Roach,Carlos Castaneda,Don Juan Matus-a budha incarnated-,Richard Bona,Giorgos Trantalidis,Michalis Kapilidis,Herbie Hancok,Pink Floyd,Richard Pryor,Bill Cosby,all the people struggling for a living, Pharoah Sanders,Louis Armstrong,Martin Luther King,Malcom X Nina Simone,Billie Holiday,Camel,Soft Machine,Gong,Bill Ward+the Sabbs,Philie Joe Jones,Joe Chambers,Free,The Who,Caravan,Lonie Liston Smith,Dr.Lonie Smith,James Brown,Fred Wesley,Maceo Parker,Parliament,Funkadelic,George Clinton,Bob Marley,Skatalites,Max Romeo,D.J Shadow,Ozric Tenticles,Mathew Garison,Joe Zawinul,Wayne Shorter,PeLoMaBoKiou,Paulos Sidiropoulos,Queen,Sokrates(the philosopher),Plato,Aristotelis,Native Indians(the original americans-Siou,Apache,Cherokee,Mohicans etc),Mayas,Azteks,Inkas,Olmeks,the great Manitou,Edgar Allan Poe,Howard Philips Lovecraft,Lord Danzani,Philip K.Dick,Oscar Wilde,William Shakespear,