Photo by Jason O'Donnell, Fall 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonod/
Painting, Etching, Silkscreen, Reading, playing my Bass, Rocking!, Watching Movies, Recording, Studying Mythology, Philosophy, Alchemy,and Anthropology (all the "ologies"), Gardening and growing Veggies and Herbs, and then cooking with them!
An answer to the question "Why Playing Guitar Means Everything" by Johnny Marr:
"Playing the guitar means always having something cool to do. It means having ambitions to be a rock star, escaping your life, or just learning to play your favourite songs. It means having fun - because you really don't need to be able to read music or have lessons to do it pretty well - and it means buying a strap and making sure it's the correct length so it looks right and feels comfortable. But mainly so it looks right.
Playing the guitar means forming a band with your mates and having your own thing, and it means struggle, on your own with sore fingers for two weeks, or with your band in little pubs, clubs and vans around the country until something happens or you give up. Playing the guitar means meeting new people and making new friends, it means staying up late, and showing off, and it means being able to express yourself, often at very high volume. Playing the guitar means fixating on a particular model or make you dream about getting but can't afford. It means dressing up, and impressing some girls and impressing some boys. It means having a laugh, or disagreements over bits of songs or the direction of the group or the cover of the record, and it means feeling so happy about a riff or a song that you want the world to hear it that minute.
Playing the guitar means never being alone with nothing to do. It means strumming for fun, or going further and further into amazing territory and a lifetime of discovery and discipline, or just taking up a hobby that gives you a bit pleasure and a sense of achievement. Playing the guitar means everything. Know what I mean?
-Johnny Marr, The Guardian Saturday May 10, 2008
Visit my band's MySpace site at:http://www.myspace.com/thehotplace
Art Show at the Polk Theatre in Lakeland, Florida that accompanied the "Living by Night in the Land of Opportunity" tour, which featured the Swimming Pool Q's during their 30th Anniversary celebration along with other musicians from Lakeland, Florida. Visit: www.lakelandmusicandfriends.squarespace.com for more info
I HANDPAINT GUITARS! These pics are of a guitar I painted for Jeff Calder of the Swimming Pool Q's. It's called "The Cosmic Antenna" Les Paul. If you are interested in commissioning me to handpaint a guitar for you, please contact me thru MySpace.
See more of the handpainted guitar at: http://www.thehotplaceband.com/handpainted-guitars/
Music
Pat Fish and David J,1985. Photo: Mick Mercer.
Post-punk stuff like Joy Division, Bauhaus, the Jazz Butcher, Siouxsie, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Church, Dead Can Dance, The Cure, The Fall, David Sylvian, Pop Will Eat Itself and Cocteau Twins. Psychedelic stuff like Pink Floyd, King Crimson, The Chocolate Watchband, Dukes of Stratosphear, Jefferson Airplane, Incredible String Band, Lenny Kaye's Nuggets Collection 1965-68, Love, The Yardbirds, the Cream, and the Doors. Space Rock like Porcupine Tree, Neu!, Chrome, Amon Duul II, Can, and Hawkwind
Movies
French new-wave films by Truffaut, Godard, Italian films by Fellini, Film Noir, Documentary, Independent films like Ghost World, Drawing Restraint 9, Mirror Mask, and Baraka, Surrealist works, Dune, Blade Runner, Hamlet, Amadeus, Clockwork Orange, The Fifth Element, The Messenger, The Crow (original),The Thin Man, John Le Carre's spy films, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Sandbaggers. The Criterion Collection releases. Recent stuff like V for Vendetta, The Good Shepherd, Pan's Labyrinth, The Illusionist, Bobby, Sweeney Todd, Resident Evil, and Children of Men. And don't forget the Rockford Files entire seasons on DVD. I also loved HBO's "Rome" and "Carnivale." And the entire season of "The Young Ones" on DVD as well.
Television
Books
"Nadja", "Communicating Vessels", and "Revolution of the Mind" by Andre Breton, "Positively 4th Street" by David Hadju, "Down the Highway-The Life of Bob Dylan" by Howard Sounes, "Bitter Music" by Harry Partch, the I Ching, "Feast of Snakes" by Harry Crews, "Alchemy and Mysticism: The Hermetic Museum" by Alexander Roob, and "Dreamers of Decadence" by Phillipe Julian, "The World at Night" and "Red Gold" by Alan Furst, "The Book of Thoth" and "The Book of the Law" by Aleister Crowley, "The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde", "From A to B and Back Again" by Andy Warhol, "Songs of the Doomed" by Hunter S. Thompson, "The Bohemians" by Dan Franck, "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy" by Tim Burton, "Imajica" and "Weave World" by Clive Barker, "The Golden Bough" by Sir James George Frazer, "Bulfinch's Mythology" by Thomas Bulfinch, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" and "The Inner Reaches of Outer Space" by Joseph Campbell, "The Mystery Traditions: Secret Symbols and Sacred Art" by James Wasserman. The Griffin and Sabine books by Nick Bantock. I love comics, and graphic novels like "The Sandman", "V for Vendetta", "The Watchmen."
Heroes
Joseph Campbell....
Larry Thomas...
Shaun White and below, Aleister Crowley, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Lee, Madame Blavatsky, Bob Dylan, Andre Breton, Christopher Walken, Dali, David J, Donovan, Edward Gorey, Ernest Hemmingway, George Harrison, Gram Parsons, Greta Garbo, Harry Crews, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Nicholson, Jack Johnson the boxer, Jim Morrison, John Malkovich, Johnny Depp, Jeff Calder, Val Kilmer, Kristin Hersh, Timothy Leary, Lou Reed, Marlene Dietrich, Matthew Sweet, Michael Stipe, Andy Warhol, Nico, Oscar Wilde, Patti Smith, Picasso, Rasputin, Odilon Redon, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Rutger Hauer, Siouxsie, Sitting Bull, Steve Kilbey, Clara Bow, Alan Moore, Tim Burton.
A Background of Lisa King:
I started playing music when I was five. Piano was the first instrument that I was drawn to, although I did like my air organ, tambourine, and xylophone a whole lot as well. The first albums that I spun as a kid, were my Mother's Doors, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Eagles, and Johnny Rivers records. I would play those along with my Dad's Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis and Platters albums. It was a mishmash of several styles, but Jim Morrison's voice, and ominous presence on the first Doors album cover, and Robert Plant's whine, and mess of rock and roll hair really made an impact on me as a child. I remember lying in a patch of sun next to a french door, and listening to those albums, and thought THIS is what Rock and Roll means. Like, if someone referred to Rock music, I thought they meant Led Zeppelin!
Pretty soon, I started subscribing to sheet music magazines, where they would include Roxy Music, Steely Dan, Queen, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and David Bowie's stuff. I learned to play these songs on piano, and sought out their albums before I had even started High School. Along with jazz and classical pieces that I had to learn for piano recitals, I enjoyed banging out some rock piano in my spare time...
Soon, I discovered Punk and New Wave, when I started listening to my cousin's album collections. I'd spend the night at their house, and stay up all night listening to Blondie, the Ramones, Adam and the Ants, and would hijack my friends' older brothers and sisters Siouxsie and the Banshees, Iggy Pop, and Sex Pistols albums. In High School, I started buying stuff like Bauhaus, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins and Christian Death albums (along with "questionable" clothing) from England, and was won over forever by the British Post-Punk sound. I was a big fan of 4AD, and Beggars Banquet, and bought everything they put out. Much to my parents horror, around age 13, I picked up a bass guitar. I was totally won over. I borrowed a bass from a friends older brother, and I played it thru my Marantz stereo speakers, (I don't know how I didn't blow them out!) I played along with bass lines of The Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain, and The Church,... and that was it. I wanted to get a band together.
My first High School "garage" bands, so to speak, were with friends Rob Knight (drummer) and Travis Kotler (guitarist). I occasionally sat in with their band, Grave Shift. However, most of my time was spent collaborating with Travis, who went on to play with Pineal Ventana. Rob played with The Blacktop Rockets, among other bands. In the late eighties and early nineties, I worked with Andy King, who was in a band called Retorik, and David Courtney in an experimental modern-classical and industrial band called Threshold. This band made a lot of recordings, amounting to about 3 albums worth of material, and was very prolific in the home studio. David went on to play with The Spectremen, and has a new project called Tenguzame, which will be releasing a single on an Australian compilation CD with a very special version of Pink Floyd's "Arnold Layne." Andy and I formed Unminded in the mid-nineties. Joining Unminded were Mike Lynn and Ivan Ruyle of Betty's Not a Vitamin. For a short while, at live shows, Unminded was joined by Vic Richard, a Los Angeles based bass player. Also joining the band onstage was Chris Lynn, who currently plays in Citizen Icon. In early 2001, I began playing keyboards with the Glenn Phillips Band, and with the Swimming Pool Q's. I played and toured with both bands for around 3 years. In 2005, I started writing new songs, and recording material in a small studio, which would be the basis of my most current band, The Hot Place. Although I am playing most of the instruments on the recordings to be relased in 2008, joining me in the studio as both a producer and player in the project, is Jeff Calder of the Swimming Pool Q's. To complete the lineup, Robert Schmid, also an alumnus of the Q's is playing drums with the band, and returning to work with me once again is Mike Lynn, as both a contrubuting guitarist and Executive Producer.
With the Hot Place, I hope to release a single for the song, "20th Century" in early spring of 2008, and by year end, a full-length first album.
Here's to a long time of rocking,
-Lisa King
Photo montage from the "No Big Wheel" production video, "The A-Bomb Woke Me Up". Created for the Swimming Pool Q's reissue of "The Deep End" in 2001. Photos by Steve Rucker. Animated by Andy King. Art Direction, Props and Modeling by Lisa King. Props and Modeling by Michael Rucker.
Georgia State University
Atlanta,GA
Graduated: 1997
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Fine Art
Minor: Playing Bass
Clubs: Printmakers Workshop, Art Student's Union
Greek:
Phi Kappa Phi
1992 to 1997
Parkview High School
Lilburn,GA
Graduated: 1990
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Art and Weirdness
Minor: Black Lipstick
Clubs: Writing, Playing Guitar, Making Art, Reading, Sulking, Dressing Better Than You!
Greek:
Gamma Gamma Gamma
1987 to 1990
Lisa King's Companies
Sew Lucky Girl US Crafter Gal
Change of Space US Decorative Painter Gal
The Swimming Pool Q's US Musician/Keyboardist
The Glenn Phillips Band US Musician/Keyboardist
The Hot Place Band US Goddess
Lisa King Come shop my Etsy Store at http://lnk.ms/0HHC1 for my After Thanksgiving Sale! 20% off all items plus free shipping Nov. 27-30! Posted 8 hours ago view more
Please visit my NEEDLECRAFTS-SEW LUCKY GIRL Etsy store at:www.sewluckygirl.etsy.com
CRAFTING FOR A CURE-Part of the proceeds from The Poly-Fil pillow fluff that fills each of these little pillows will be used to support Breast Cancer Initiatives. Let's change the world one sweet pillow at a time!
I am pledging 20% of my proceeds every time I sell a "Big Bad Cat" or a "Bad Kitty/Good Kitty" pillow to P.A.W.S. Atlanta. I am working my way up to a "Best Friend", with sights for a Gold Paw! Please visit P.A.W.S. Atlanta at http://www.pawsatlanta.org
There you will find Interviews and Audio Commentary with Post Punk, and Underground heroes such as David J from Bauhaus/Love and Rockets; Ian Webber of the Tender Idols/The Pets; Pat Fish of The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy; Jeff Calder of the Swimming Pool Q's; DJ Gnosis; Johnny Marr of The Smiths/The The/Electronic; Travis Kotler; Daniel Lanois; Tim De Laney and Brad Lewis of Kopernik; Glenn Phillips; Tom De Laney of Tragic Plastic; Zollie Maynard; Marty Willson-Piper of The Church; David Greenberger: Creator of the Duplex Planet; Nikki Sudden; David Lovering of The Pixies; Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket; James Hall and Grant Curry of the Pleasure Club; Tony Levin; and Trevor Tanner of the Bolshoi.
Who I'd like to meet: The leaves are changing, and so are Sew Lucky Girl's pillows! Come shop for fall color at www.sewluckygirl.etsy.com!
Love to all, Sew Lucky Girl
Stephen Fry
Other artists. Collectors who are interesting. Fans of great books and good music.
My Dear Friends are listed below in the order that I met them. Yes, some of you I have known for a long, long time...
The video below is a "No Big Wheel" production video, "The A-Bomb Woke Me Up". Created for the Swimming Pool Q's reissue of "The Deep End" in 2001. Photos by Steve Rucker. Animated by Andy King. Art Direction, Props and Modeling by Lisa King. Props and Modeling by Michael Rucker. Extra, extra special thanks to Stuart Clark for investing his time and help in converting this video to a modern format, so that it can be viewed here on MySpace.
hey just wanted to tell you that I'm doing a rare solo show this friday night at Kavarna in Oakhurst (707 Eastlake DR) at 9PM. Robert's gonna come. I'd love to see you guys if you can make it. Lots of creepy theremin will be played as well as a boatload of percussion.
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