| Influences | Sun City Girls, The Beatles, John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, Slint, Helios Creed/Chrome, Brian and Roger Eno, Syd era Pink Floyd, Cream/Jack Bruce, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Don Van Vliet, The Residents, Snakefinger, Renaldo and the Loaf, Ralph Records, This Heat, Steely Dan, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra and the Arkestra, Albert Ayler, Anthony Braxton, Jaco Pastorius/Weather Report, L.A. area: Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of, Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Black Flag, Mike Watt, D. Boon, George Hurly, Bob Fitzer, Jack Brewer, Joe Baiza, SST, Claw Hammer, Backbiter, Red Wedding, Outer Circle, Radwaste, Wall of VooDoo, Food and Shelter/Black Keys, Anti-Club, Dee Dee Troit, Don Bolles, Kommunity FK, Blood on the Saddle, The Lonesome Strangers, Blasters/Dave Alvin, Rank and File, Blackbird, The Ringling Sisters, Dicktit, Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band, Eddie Flowers/Crawlspace. • Santa Barbara area: Iron Curtain, The Tan, Brad is Sex, Dick Dunlap, Christian Lunch and Cole Palme. • Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Slim Harpo, Koko Taylor, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Freddy King, Don and Dewey, Hound Dog Taylor and the House Rockers, Meat Puppets, Butthole Surfers, Ween, Scornflakes, James Brown, Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Booker T. and the MG's, Rufus Thomas, and Stax/Volt, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Motown, Lee Dorsey, Sly and the Family Stone, Rufus and Chaka Chan, Ohio Players, Tower of Power, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, Funkadelic/Parliament, The Meters, Average White Band, Kool and the Gang, Clifton Chenier, Queen Ida, Buckwheat Zydeco, Bill Munroe, Stanley Brothers, Jim and Jesse, Hank Sr., Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Loretta Lyne, The Maddox Brothers and Rose, Iris Dement, John Prine, Jerry Lee Lewis, Everly Brothers, Carl Perkins, Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, Esquerita, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Peter Tosh, Toots and the Maytals, The Heptones, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, War, early Santana, Alexander 'Skip' Spence, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Elliot Smith, The Monkees, Love, The Doors, The Stones, The Small Faces/Humble Pie/Steve Marriott, Iggy and the Stooges, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Alice Cooper, The Kinks, The Sweet, T. Rex, Slade, early Suzi Quatro, Elton John, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, The Move, Grand Funk, Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks, Steeleye Span, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Yes, PFM, Banco, Peter Gabriel solo and w/ Genesis, Soft Machine and Robert Wyatt solo, David Allen/Gong, Matching Mole, Henry Cow, Art Bears, Fred Frith, Magma, Popol Vuh, Canterbury, Thinking Plague, Can, Cluster, Krautrock, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Roxy Music, Nick Cave, Faust, Wire, The Fall, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, P.I.L., early Simple Minds, The Cure, Throbbing Gristle, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Test Department, Princess Tinymeat, Wiseblood, Foetus, Flowerpotmen, Virgin Prunes, Coil, And Also The Trees, Young Marble Giants, Minimal Man, Hugo Largo, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Sonic Youth, Anthony and the Johnsons, Laurie Anderson, Blurt, Rip Rig and Panic, Cindytalk, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Digital Underground, Raw Fusion, Ice Cube, Da Lynch Mob, Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest, Missy Elliott, Early friends: Tracy Adams, Greg Hajic, Tim Bryson, Tim Kepford, Patrick Miller, Patrick Milliken, Chris Crump, Derek Palmer, Dave Fontana, Elizabeth Montague, Brad Nack, Later friends: Bob Lee, Larry, Tory Lowitz, Lonny Balderston, Kelly Wheeler, Dave Widow, Matthew Ritvo, Craig Woods, Caleb Brenen, Dave Carpenter, Ken Dommer. • Carter Burwell, Jürgen Kneiper, Glen Branca, R. Crumb, Comic Books, Brothers Quay, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Pynchon, Luis Bunnel, Merian C. Cooper, Tod Browning, James Whale, Fellini, Jerry Lewis, William Castle, Ed Wood Jr., Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Terry Gilliam, Werner Herzog, John Waters, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Andrei Tarkovsky, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo Del Toro, Jörg Buttgereit, Roy Andersson.
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