joe davis.
I write and play everything, with occasional guests.
Influences
Hawkwind, Can, Ghost, Psychic TV, T.Rex, Pink Fairies, Julian Cope, Amon Duul, ST 37, Acid Mothers Temple, Kristin Hersh, Robyn Hitchcock, Cabaret Voltaire, Current 93, Richard Pinhas/Heldon, Ozric Tentacles, Neu!, Tomorrow, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, John Fahey, Thinking Plague, Forever Einstein, The Beach Boys, Peter Frohmader's Nekropolis, AcidGuitarKing, Pretty Things, Man, Link Wray, Blue Cheer, Les Baxter, Solid Eye, W.O.O. Revelator, Bevis Frond, Sun Ra, Shirley Collins, Caetano Veloso, Egberto Gismonti, David Torn, Voivod, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Subhumans, Graham Bond's Magick, Aphrodite's Child, Leonard Cohen, Klaus Schulze, F/i, Steve Peregrine Took, Perry Leopold, Jefferson Airplane, Motorhead, Velvet Underground, Chuck Berry, Nik Turner, Gong, Carla Bley, Deus Ex Machina, Goblin, Van Der Graff Generator, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Shriekback, Census Of Hallucinations, Sunn O))), Michigan rock (MC 5, Amboy Dukes, Rationals, The Up, The Frost), anything on the French jazz label - Label Bleu (Michel Donato, Richard Galliano, Henry Texier, Michel Portal), anything on the Nordic music label - Northside Records (Hedningarna, JPP, Garmarna, Frifot, Lena Willemark, Loituma, etc.), the movies comics and life of Alexandro Jodorowsky (especially El Topo), the movies of Jean Rollin (especially Requiem For a Vampire/Caged Virgins), Logan's Run, Zardoz, coffee, camp fires, British comic books (2000 AD!!!), self published zines, homesteading and D.I.Y. culture.
Sounds Like
Hawkwind, space rock, krautrock, - mixed with some avant garde,electronic, jazz, and pagan folk influences. Filter that through a love of punk rock and D.I.Y. culture, beat poetry, and science fiction. Cosmic gumbo.
My name is Joe Davis. I’ve been in lots of different bands and music projects over the years including Bahkahtah, Scalded Dog, Pyramids On Mars, Blood Of The Dragon Orchestra, The Far Look. I also curate the psych/experimental music comp series - What’s Up Mutants. You can view Volumes 1-3 at www.whatsupmutants.s5.com. Harts Horn is my solo home taping project. I play almost everything on it. Harts Horn has released 14 self produced CDR’s so far. They are:
HEARSAY & HERESY,
CERNUNNOS,
THE HOLLOW EARTH,
JETTISONED (featuring Astro Al),
SSSONGSSS,
ANTHEMIC DIRGE OF COSMOS,
QUIXOTIC UNDERGROUND,
I WEAR DESIGNS,
ETHER/ORE,
EGG ASH SKULL GARDEN,
PET NOIZES (split CD with Astro Al),
BEGIN TO EXIST,
DYSTOPIAN MIRRORSCAPE,
& WHEN SNAKES HAD LEGS AND WE WERE FREE.
I am always willing to trade for your CD, zine, or other DIY project... Or if you would like a free Harts Horn sampler, just email me - you have but to ask. Cheers.
Issue #2 of Psych Trail Mix is all done and ready to ship out! This one is a monster and I think you all will dig it. I'm very proud of how it came out, the zine is developing nicely. If you'd like one, please send me a message on here OR send an e-mail to psychtrailmix@yahoo.com with your home mailing address. Again, the zine is a labor of love and completely free, but if you'd like to donate a few bucks for shipping, I would be EXTREMELY grateful as shipping costs can get out of hand. Below you will find the contents of this second issue, hope to hear from you all soon!
Issue #2 Will Feature:
*Exclusive Interview with Paul Leary of The Butthole Surfers *60's Psych and Beyond CD Reviews *DVD & Book Reviews *Exclusive Interview with Richie Unterberger, Author of "Unknown Legends Of Rock & Roll" *Weird PA: Observations Of Strange Surroundings *Show Review: Gibby Haynes with Paul Green School of Rock *Rant: Myspace Attention Craving Whores *Plus much more!
Thanks for letting me in. I've been listening to your music and love the variety. With influences such as you have you can't go wrong. Anyway back to horror movies. You were dead right. The eighties for me was the death decade for classic horror with the possible exception of Carpenter's The Thing. Top decades were the 30's, 50' and 60's. Next Astro Al/Harts Horn gig I'm coming over. We've already sorted the air fare. Love and peace Al.
Hey Joe! I myself have been cartoonized in the first two of Brian Walsby's Manchild collections/series so welcome to the club(I've been a comic book reading nerd my whole life). My old roommate Jenn's comic book artist boyfriend is basing the lead character in his new Pirate series on her.Soon everyone will be a comic character but 'til then were a little cooler than them(ha ha)! I did enjoy the pages posted with the blog.Have to check out High Maintenance Machine.Looks cool.
debbie and i are all about the hammer horror flicks. vampires should wear capes. there were some good horror flicks in the early 80's but there was more drek like the howling 2.
joe it was so much fun to do jettisoned live with you! i would dig doing it again! you rock space bro. hope you have a great trip home. cael is a sweetie, rowan rocks, and dani is as pretty and cool as ever. great seeing you all. deb loves your mom.
i know. i couldn't help it! uh, how'sabout Wednesday afternoon? Otherwise, Thursday at my joint, (bkuz work/kids). Neckbone's thinkin about bringin' it with the violin (!)
think we should just call it harts horn/astro al no need to build a bunch of other myspace pages i won't have the time to maintain and such. does that work for you?
Hawkwind, Can, Ghost, Psychic TV, T.Rex, Pink Fairies, Julian Cope, Amon Duul, ST 37, Acid Mothers Temple, Kristin Hersh, Robyn Hitchcock, Cabaret Voltaire, Current 93, Richard Pinhas/Heldon, Ozric Tentacles, Neu!, Tomorrow, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, John Fahey, Thinking Plague, Forever Einstein, The Beach Boys, Peter Frohmader's Nekropolis, AcidGuitarKing, Pretty Things, Man, Link Wray, Blue Cheer, Les Baxter, Solid Eye, W.O.O. Revelator, Bevis Frond, Sun Ra, Shirley Collins, Caetano Veloso, Egberto Gismonti, David Torn, Voivod, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Subhumans, Graham Bond's Magick, Aphrodite's Child, Leonard Cohen, Klaus Schulze, F/i, Steve Peregrine Took, Perry Leopold, Jefferson Airplane, Motorhead, Velvet Underground, Chuck Berry, Nik Turner, Gong, Carla Bley, Deus Ex Machina, Goblin, Van Der Graff Generator, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Shriekback, Census Of Hallucinations, Sunn O))), Michigan rock (MC 5, Amboy Dukes, Rationals, The Up, The Frost), anything on the French jazz label - Label Bleu (Michel Donato, Richard Galliano, Henry Texier, Michel Portal), anything on the Nordic music label - Northside Records (Hedningarna, JPP, Garmarna, Frifot, Lena Willemark, Loituma, etc.), the movies comics and life of Alexandro Jodorowsky (especially El Topo), the movies of Jean Rollin (especially Requiem For a Vampire/Caged Virgins), Logan's Run, Zardoz, coffee, camp fires, British comic books (2000 AD!!!), self published zines, homesteading and D.I.Y. culture.
