Albums and performances have included Steve Grams, Namoli Brennet, John Proulx, Harvey Newmark, Carl Sonny Leyland, Adam "The Jelly" Levy, Gary Blumer, Geoff Stradling, Tateng Katindig, Joe Adamik, Jeff Miller, Billy Kerr, Susan Artemis, Craig Faltin, Jack Radavich, Beth Lederman, Cass Preston, George Zinsser, Lisa Harriton, Ed Vodicka, Ryan Feves, Ethan Klein, Kristin Korb, Amy Nolte, Gaea Schell, David Miller, Noah Essig, Eric Sittner, Zachary Sempers, Scott Black, Gary Moran, Tim Emmons
Influences
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Tom Waits, Bob Dorough, David Frishberg, Mose Allison, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Pat Metheny, Frank Zappa, Grams and Krieger, Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, Charles Bukowski, Tennessee Williams, Malcolm Chisolm, Tom Tedrahn, Barry Gebler, Elvin Jones, Harry Connick Jr, Slim Gaillard, The Four Blazes, The Three Flames, Scatman Crothers, Jimmy Yancey, Tom Baumgartner, the Pacific Ocean, the Sonoran Desert
Sounds Like
Dave Frishberg and Randy Newman cruising to Vegas in the Great Red Shark.
Steve Allen and Tom Waits squatting in Tin Pan Alley, drinking from a paper bag.
Once upon a time, as the worn needle of an outdated turntable made it's way across the vinyl surface of Frank Zappa's Hot Rats, a tragically dorky pre-adolescent boy vibrated with an emotion he couldn't describe. Even girls, he soon found, didnt arouse quite the same feelings as Magical Mystery Tour and Dark Side of the Moon. By the time the boy was aware enough of the fairer sex to begin to understand his libido, the Pat Metheny Group and Return to Forever were already drawing his developing hypothalamus into deeper, more profound realms of sensation.
But women are the creation of a greater artist, and the boy soon found that playing the drums won him far more of their attention than writing rudimentary programs on his Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, which had so captured his interest between Dungeons & Dragons and music. The boy became a man, and an entertainer was born.
Kyle now accompanies himself at the piano and torments women with romantic songs about his wife with a performing style he describes as "like breaking out of jail."
Waves to you Kyle from far far away.. probably safer that way ha! Thank you for being such a nice friend... clever and funny too.. shhh did I say that???
You're a player... what a sweet song.
Kudos for the Model Psychosis, that whole brilliant conceit, the Overture, the songs... best thing I've heard all year.
Hey Green Man - you're looking a little pekid these days! Might want to cut back on those greens, or maybe eat less microwaveable food. Remember how we used to call you "microwave chef"? What was it you used to say, "Why cook it if you can nuke it?" or something like that.
