Music, art- especially pop art, literature, comix, smut, Russ Meyer and John Waters' films, zombie films, my two fave instruments are pedal steel and non-pedal steel guitar (hey that counts as one) and the theremin.
STEEL GUITAR .. by Bobby Black
Other interest include: WWI and II, the Vietnam Wars (yeah, plural not singular), the American Civil War, how to mess with the machinery of empires, Americana, DALEKS, zombies, vampires, and Mosrite guitars
And now it's time for my fave joke:
A man walks into a bar........
it penetrates his chest, tears through his internal organs, explodes right out the other side of his body, embedding itself in the wall, obscenely impaling him to the spot.
Music
My music interests include: Rockabilly, funk, garage punk, psyche-country, country-rock, jazz (post and pre-bop), blue-eyed soul, soul, R&B, folk, jug-band, country-soul, psychedelia, gospel-rock, folk-rock, folk-blues, concrete, electronica (broad one that), ambient noise, west coast 60s country, sunshine pop, baroque pop, surf & hot rod, 80s indie rock, old school grunge, early singer-songwriter, folk-death, punk (none 'o that K-Mart sh!t thanks), hard rock, grindcore, 70s heavy metal, prog rock, 60s girl groups, bluegrass, western swing, western-bop, newgrass and alt.-country among other sweet thangs.
Bands and artist?.. Mr. Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings & the Waylors, Willie Nelson, The Champs, Billy Strange, Messer Chups, Buffalo Springfield, Black Sabbath, the Byrds, the Handsome Family, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Brinsley Schwarz, Bees Make Honey, Al Anderson & the wildweeds, Chilli Willi & Red Hot Peppers, Chas 'n' Dave, the Tumbleweeds (aka Spike Island), Stalk-Forrest Group, greatful dead, loggins & messina, wynn stewart, tony booth, jerry inman, seatrain, calexico, blue cheer, kaada, goldfrapp, radio birdman, flying burrito brothers, poco, sir douglas quintet, country fever, mason proffit, the kinks, godflesh, captain beefheart, pink ployd, !!! !!! !!!, panico, the everly brothers, melvins, napalm death, the stooges, the nation blue, the 13th floor elevators, absentee, ricky nelson & the stone canyon band, mouse & the traps, low, euphoria, the misunderstood, gram parsons, elvis costello, neil young, the flatlanders, buck owens, bob dylan (love boots from the 1966 tour with the Hawks/Band), townes van zandt, iain mathews, tom waits, ozark mountain daredevils, ELVIS, eddie cochran, gene vincent, goose creek symphony, country singer norma jean, bruce haack, country fever, jerry lee lewis, the blackeyed susans, the triffids, charlie rich, bruce channel, dale hawkins, ronnie hawkins, the louvin brothers, joe south, dion, blue oyster cult, gene clark, red rhodes, merle haggard & the strangers, red simpson, new riders of the purple sage, Bobby Jameson, bob wills, ole rassmussen & his nebrasken cornhuskers:
bill monroe, flatt & scruggs, the earl scruggs revue, the Stonemans, Tony Rice, Swampwater, Rick Cunha, otis redding, Swamp Dogg, Ennio Morricone, Jim Ford, the Flatlanders, joe ely, jimmie dale gilmore, dicky betts, jonathan edwards, emmylou harris, the corvettes, the kinks, lonnie mack, mathews southern comfort, Chris Darrow:
http://www.intangible.org:80/Features/darrow/
the countryside band, sebadoh, barefoot jerry, area code 615, porter wagoner, dan penn, arthur alexander, ennio morricone, gene davis and y'know.. other bits and pieces.
Fave labels, 60s A&M, Amos Records, Bearsville, Bell, Ardent, Stax, Ampex, Elektra, SubPop, K Records, SST, Ace, Sundazed, Rev-Ola, Fallout, Rhino, LHI, Reprise, Asylum, Blue Horizion, Imperial, Tower, 60s Capitol Records, Pye and Capricorn among others...
Movies
zombies, vampires, sci-fi, superhero, spaghetti westerns, 60s biker films, the coen brothers' films, star wars, buccaroo banzai, horror, porn kitsch.. like uh... russ meyer, apocalypse now, and the insane beauty of the 1973 mexican classic 'the holy mountain,' and [rec],.. did I say zombies already?..'shaun of the dead'.. and all of romero's films.. the original dawn of the dead is pure genius. .. diary of the dead is way underrated, a very good film.
faves of late: fargo, buffalo 66, apocalypse now (not the redux), easy rider, mysterious skin, for a few dollars more, once apon a time in the west, the big liebowsky, amateur, happiness, dark city, dawn of the dead, night of the living dead, mad max (1 and 2 only), lost in translations, the virgin suicides, barton fink, the kid stays in the picture, autofocus, tie me up tie me down, a clockwork orange, 2001 a space oddessy, choke, the evil dead films, the kill bills, cul de sac, dr. no, cemetery man aka Dellamorte Dellamore, ringu, and the ring, feeling minnesota, jackie brown, constantine, river's edge, city of lost children, alien, land of the dead, festival express, happiness, dead man, mulholland drive, ed wood, and don't tempt me aka Bendito Infierno/No News From God/ Sin Noticias de Dios (with victoria abril and penelope cruz; a spanish black comedy about the shift in politics in heaven and hell)... and damn, I forgot to go to the opening night of where the wild things are.
fave directors include aki kaurismäki, peter greenaway, sergio leone, spielberg, quentin tarantino, pedro almodóvar, joel coen, stanley kubrick, werner hertzog, peter jackson, dennis hopper, george a. romero, russ meyer, sam rami, and no doubt some others I'll think of later.
Television
30 Rock, Cavemen, Dexter, Dr. Who. twin peaks, astro boy (older stuff please), x-files, supernatural, buffy, angel, star trek (60s), Mighty Boosh, battle of the planets, first season of robotech, house, blackadder, black books, spaced, Monkey Magic, Wild West (not the film dammit!), the goodies, deadwood, battlestar galactica (70s and current), millenium, wurzel gummidge, catweasle, it's always sunny in philadelphia, Lost, and Heroes (although it's quite repetative after the first series)
30 Rock is just about my fave of all of the above....
Books
tough to pick out a few books, Thomas Pynchon's 'Mason & Dixon,' fave writers include James Ellroy, Frank Herbert, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austin, while childhood faves were Stephen King, Tolkein and Issac Asimov.
In the last couple of years I've re-discovered Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle in the written form, although I've always been mad for TV-film adaptions of his work. . check Tom Baker as sherlock holmes.. rockin.' I'd like to say that I'm a Tolkein fan, I've only read a couple of things; the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (4 times) and 'The Hobbit' (19 times), but I guess I qualify as a fan of his written work.
currently reading a bunch o' things.. biographies, including one about the band Love, a Hank Williams bio, and a Bo Diddley one, Homer's Ulysess, and just finished the original scroll of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, one hell-ova good read and actually better in many ways than on the road. (which I loved)
Heroes
Charles Darwin, The late artist Andy Warhol, and his polar opposite contemporary in the pop-art world Robert Rauschenberg, late deejay John Peel, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Richard Burton and warrior turned nation builder Lawrence of Arabia.
Oddy's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Friends
Hometown:
Melbourne by way of hicksville
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Atheist
Zodiac Sign:
Aquarius
Children:
I don't want kids
Education:
Some college
Occupation:
I often wonder
Oddy says whoever wrote the pen is mightier than the sword has obviously never been stabbed Posted at 7:32 AM Oct 24 view more
My friends call me Oddy, but the name is Odd, Jason Odd.
Through the day I'm a mild mannered employee at the largest indie label in Australasia. Don't get too excited,
I work in local inwards stock control and internal supply for promo product.
I also work as a freelance writer and am currently working on several writing projects. In the past I have helped with background information for books, and CD booklets and box set booklets. Watch for an upcoming Dee Mullins compilation on Omni Record with my notes, as well as an anthology Plantation Gold (OMNI-124) in eary 2009.
For further reference, Jason Walker's Gram Parsons biography 'God's Own Singer,' has quotes from yours truly on pages 56 and 57, commenting on the west coast country music scene that Parsons immersed himself into on his arrival in the mid 60s.
I'm also a semi-regular contributor for the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame, most notably in the Bakersfield Sound section.
Check them out at: www.rockabillyhall.com
Feel free to explore my other Myspace Page:
myspace.com/gramparsonsrecords
I come from a fine arts background, and although I prefer to write about music genres and musicians, my interest and love of art remains. Ich Bein Dada...
The king of west coast honk-tonk, the late great Gene Davis circa 1969.
Who I'd like to meet:
bobbie gentry
...the guys from the 1960s band Euphoria, they made one of the weirdest psyche-country records ever. bless 'em.
If you ever make it to myspace guys. drop me a line any time
Merle Haggard
Here's Merle in a clip filmed in late 1966 with a trimmed down version of Red Rhodes And The Detours from the Palomino Club.
Red on pedal steel, Biff Adam (drums), Johnny Davis on lead guitar, and Don Holiman on bass.
And thanks to myspace I've actually met Bobby Jameson.
Bobby has the best blog ever: bobbyjameson.blogspot.com/
We used to be called "Mumrik" that was looking for a singer and now we finally found a singer and the band name became STM since we are working together at a distance of 6000miles from Leeds, UK to Kyoto, Japan. And we uploaded 3 songs now. Check them and let me know what you think. Thanks.
I think that's what shocked me so much: hadn't seen it for years and, boy, what a shocker!! Looks worse than the absolute worst 1977 effects in the original!
Hey my friend, check out Darin Warner on my page, one of your own. Im producing a session on him here in the States with JD Mannes and James Burton, Brentley Kerns, Jim Cox, Jim Christie, Peter Warner and Howard Yearwood. May be out that way before long! Best, Wayne D
Hey Oddy, thanks for the add. I already have your (excellent!) Gram Parson's Record Collection site on my friends list, so I thought I'd add you.
You have really interesting (and eclectic) tastes -- and a knack for finding cool stuff. I love the Merle Haggard video. Oh, and the joke made me laugh! Thanks again.
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