Teddy Geiger, Jose Gonzalez, Mark Kozelk, Alexi Murdoch, Xavier Rudd, Daniel Lanois, Nick Dranke, M. Ward, M. Craft, John Mayer, Akron Family, Majorie Fair, Brett Dennen, Leo Kotke, Miles Davis, Decoder Ring, Nobody & The Mystic Chords of Memory, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltzin, Junior Boys, Coastal, Ben Harper, Perry Farrel, Rocky Votolato, Precious Fathers, Explosions in th Sky, Built to Spill, Cat Power, Radiohead, Dave Mathews, Margot & The Nuclear So and So's, Plus/Minus, The Bad Plus, John Schofield, Surfjan Stevens, Ben Folds, Death Cab For Cutie, Decemberists, Spock's Beard, Shipping News, Bluebird, The Coach and Four, Steven Smith, Dudley Corporation, Fastball, Logh, Paul Simon, The Howling Hex, Tristeza, Pelican, Rock Kills Kid, The Jim Yoshi Pile-Up, Thom Yorke, DJ Shadow, Minmae, Phish, Low, Dirty Three, Guster, Spokane, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Fly Pan Am, Jana McCall, The Brett Rosenberg Problem, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Eels, Rilo Kiley, Regina Spektor, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Do Make Say Think, Jack Johnson, The Mercury Program, Supergrass, This Will Destroy You, Beck, The Salteens, Ben Christophers, Snow Patrol, Saxon Shore, Bjork, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Yo La Tango, Vermillion Lies, Tom Waits, The Freddy Jones Band, Gregory Page, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sonic Youth, Elvis Costello, Cex, Mono, The Reindeer Section, Arctic Monkeys, Eric Bachman, Tanakh, April Verch, Bardo Pond, Jason Lowenstein, El Ten Eleven, Pete Droge, Russian Circles, Mogwai, Larval, My Morning Jacket, Tarentel, Wilco, Pony, David Kilgour, Sunny Day Real Estate, Hoover, Brad, Eskobar, Trembling Blue Stars, The The, Bruce Hornsby, Six Parts Seven, Drive-By Truckers, The Essex Green, Covenant, Greg Grant, Piano Magic, Bloc Party, The Mutton Birds, The Antarticans, The Church, Scott Mathew, Jeremiah Clark, Jeremy Price, Afghan Whigs, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Paperwork, Tadhg Cooke, The Changes, Brokem West, Richie Havens, The Beatles, my hands are tired of typing...
In an attempt to further clutter my digital presence with more extraneous locations, I have started a podcast for my music. You can subscribe and be automatically updated as I post new songs, pretty cool, huh?
Here is the link to the page from which you can listen and subscribe. Transmissions From the Hornspod
And here is my new place of blogging Indelible Inkling where I periodically post my more visual dabbling, rambling and babbling.
I discovered the joys of music at a tender early age when everything was new and miraculous. At my Mom's house there was always either Motown or Johnny Mathis playing. I remember alternating often between my two favorite records as a child: The Puff the Magic Dragon story record and, ahem, Barry Manilow Live. You know the one with him reaching up to the sky in his glitterazzi spandex suit.
Well my tastes have evolved a lot since then. My mother bought me my first instrument the saxophone. I spent many hours in my room leaning Kenny G licks. Like I said my tastes have evolved ALOT since then. I studied music and played the horn in the school band for several years before discovering rock n roll and the guitar. I got together with some neighborhood kids and started playing in garage bands with names like "Mixilplic" and "Psychic Groove" and even made a few recordings during those formative years which thankfully have all been collected in a cardboard box and tucked away in the dark recesses of my closet under the basement stairs.
I started playing with the indie rock band The Penny Regime after sitting in on drums with them impromptu at a live gig one evening. Using only newspapers and coat hangers as drum sticks I managed to fake my way along their songs. A week later they brought my on board as their official drummer. I continued to play drums, guitar and bass honing my song writing , stage performance and band management skills over the course of seven plus years with the band. I produced two of our albums 'Mint" and 'Mystery Plan X' and helped organize and execute a couple east coast tours with the band as well. We went through several line up changes ,more gigs then I can remember and lots of beers. I joined forces with Jeremy Price of Puddle and with a lot of help from Randy Christie of Sentient Lighting built a performance venue known as The Penthouse on the top floor of the H&H Warehouse building in downtown Baltimore. Here I continued to hone my audio engineering skills for several years, cutting my teeth running sound for local and national bands alike. I continued to work periodically as a live sound man for The Sidebar and various outdoor festivals. I went on to contribute to several other groups including Jeremiah Clark and the Lighter Thieves, Dave Cipriani and the Faith and Doubt Orchestra, The amnibigcircus can-o-pee orchestra, and Birdbath all the while working on solo material as well.
My solo material as of late generally has more of a contemplative no depression alt folk jazz influenced folky melancholy sound. A bit of a departure from the hard rocking Penny Regime of my past. I guess I've found my softer side. I even have pictures of it, but hey have been banned from this site due to inappropriate imagery. As of late I've drawn a lot the loss of several family members as a source of cathartic musical therapy. I'm also working on some happy tunes and a couple straight faced with a slightly furrowed brow ditties as well.
hey Hornsby, saying hi.. I hope you find success..... I guess you are solo now, I don't know what happened to your friends Ritchard and them.... the guy with the long brown hair..
anyways you should get some real images up and maybee post some music on youtube...
God bless John Hornsby and all his intoxicated, furry friends, what with their sad guitars and plaintive melodies. I do love a good, inspirational story...
