Bob Dylan
Aphex Twin
Sonic Youth
Radiohead
Rolling Stones
Ozric Tentacles
Explosions in The Sky
Bad Religion
The Cure
The Police
Marilyn Manson
David Bowie
Vangelis
the INSPIRATIONS:
Miles Davis
Akira Yamaoka
Brian Eno
Phillip Glass
Nobuo Uematsu
John Peel
Eryk Satie
Ludwig Van Beethoven
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Dr. Dre
Daniel Lanois
Mike Oldfield
Peter Gabriel
the GOES WITHOUT SAYING:
The Beatles
John Lennon
Wings
Sounds Like
a four-letter word for fecal matter, OR the hand of God! :) just kidding... but about which one?!
Since no one can search that description (as funny as I think it is) I should probably include searchable band names in this box. Really, I sound like myself. I probably could be accused of ripping off Nirvana hardcore, which means I sound like Bush, but I refuse to sound like Bush!! Besides, if I'm ripping off Nirvana, that means I'm really ripping off Sonic Youth, which means I'm really ripping off the Pixies, which means I'm really ripping off the Beatles, which means I'm really ripping off Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, which means I'm really ripping off Cole Porter and Herb Alpert. So, who the hell am I really ripping off?
And with that... I sound like:
at best: a cross between Nirvana and Pink Floyd
at worst: some bizarre love child of a drunken in-studio orgy between Neil Young, Aphex Twin, The Cure, and AC/DC
You figure out who's blowing who in that one! I can only imagine. Would Richard D. James get sloppy seconds on old Neil or Robert Smith, and would Angus Young bother to fuck any of them? Would he prefer to sit in the corner with his prize SG and just jerk off to the whole scene?
Ross goes by Gunshy on Newgrounds.com, but you may know that already. It's kinda confusing, to me... but whatever.
Ross is a different kind of music, altogether.
'It's a different kind of music.'
Some of it is grunge, but some of it is electronic. Even the grunge can get a little techno-ey, if that's even allowed. :) The techno is more progressive, but even the grunge is pretty prog for grunge.
This music is music to your brain, too, I think. All of this is post-grunge progressive electronic psychedelic punk rock from a one-man/one-computer band independently based in South Jersey and on the Internet.
All the music you are hearing and (hopefully) enjoying was conceived, recorded, produced, mixed, and engineered at the Egg House in Pitman, NJ, by me.
By placing works (of music, art, lyrics, literature, et cetera) on Myspace (and anywhere else) I am making the official claim that it (in its entirety) is my original work, thereby entitling me to full copyright ownership status under the auspices and guidelines of any and all copyright laws of, but not limited to, the United States, its incorporated and unincorprated territories, and the known universe. So there.
PLAY IT LOUD!!
[+G]
This band's dark, forboding profile was tweaked and fucked-with and personalized using some stupid basic-as-hell profile editor that I found using Google called qnun.com Editor
"I've always imagined I'd die by driving into the back of a truck while trying to read the name on a cassette, and people would say, 'He would have wanted to go that way.' Well, I want them to know that I wouldn't."
-John Peel (1939-2004), British DJ, journalist, and radio personality.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
-Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68), U.S. clergyman, civil rights leader. Strength to Love, pt. 4, ch. 3 (1963).
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive."
-Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787)
"There is no sin except stupidity."
-Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 2 (published in Intentions, 1891).
"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Letter, 26 Feb. 1937, to state governors, urging uniform soil conservation laws.
"And yet . . . it moves."
-Galileo Galilei (attributed to) (1564–1642), Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist. Galileo, referring to the earth, allegedly muttered this remark to his companion in 1633, as he rose from signing a recantation— forced on him by the Inquisition in Rome— of the Copernican theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system.
"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time— and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."
-Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939), U.S. journalist. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, ch. 8 (1971).
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."
-Thomas Paine (1737–1809), Anglo-American political theorist, writer. Common Sense, ch. 4 (1776).
"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."
-Martin Amis (b. 1949), British author. Einstein’s Monsters, Introduction (1987).
"A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
-Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), U.S. author. Letter, 6 Dec. 1924 (published in Selected Letters, ed. by Carlos Baker, 1981).
"All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover."
-Lenny Bruce (1925–66), U.S. satirical comedian. The Essential Lenny Bruce, “Performing and the Art of Comedy” (ed. by John Cohen, 1967).
"When your conscience says law is immoral, don’t follow it."
-Jack Kevorkian (b. 1931), U.S. pathologist from Michigan. Washington Post, (May 28, 1994), during his trial for assisting ill patients in their suicide.
"I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue."
-Xenocrates (396–315 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Quoted by Valerius Maximus in: Annals, bk. 7, ch. 2, sct. 7. Plutarch has attributed the remark to Simonides.
"In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show."
-Timothy Leary (1920–96), U.S. psychologist. Evening Standard (London, 8 Feb. 1989).
"If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows."
-Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900–1979), British admiral, member of Royal Family. Maclean’s (Toronto, 17 Nov. 1975).
"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war— for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more."
-John Lennon (1940-80), British rock musician. Quoted in: Beatles Illustrated Lyrics, vol. 1.
"Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens."
-Michel de Montaigne (1533–92), French essayist. Essays, bk. 2, ch. 12, “An Apology of Raimond Sebond” (tr. by John Florio, 1580).
Thanks for adding me! I love hearing from friends, so message me anytime. If you get a chance, go to Below the Belt's Website and Vote for me as "Honey of the Year"!
<span style='font-size:20px; font-weight:bold'>Hey Ross, I just bought you as my PET! <a href='http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=361263053'><span style='font-size:larger;'>Click here</span></a> to find out how much I think you're $$WORTH$$!</span><br/><br/><a href='http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=361263053'><img src='http://cdn1.slicezero.com/oyf_prod/images/ffs_money3_myspace.gif' border='0' /></a><br/>
click above and follow the directions<br /><br />
-------------------------------<br />
<i>This comment was sent by your friend via the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/361263053">Own Your Friends!</a> application. To block comments sent via Apps. click <a href="http://profileedit.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=accountSettings.applicationSettings">here</a>.</i> <br />
Hallo! Ich hoffe, dass Sie eine wunderbare Woche haben. Vielen Dank dafür, mein Freund zu sein. Übrigens wette ich, dass Sie denken, was zum Kuckuck das in diesem Augenblick ist! Umarmungen und Küsse
"Hey thanks so much for the add! Listen!! I need your help! I am in this contest to win the cover of this magazine!! I need your help so that I can stay in first place! Here's my banner to click on and vote!
Spread the word to your friends and try to vote once a day if you can! I really wanna win this! If your really want to help me out, you can post a bulletin for me along with my banner....I'd appreciate this greatly!!
hey Gunshy, how are you? We put up new songs for your listening. Come on over when you got some spare minutes. If you feel like supporting this pre-post-apocalyptic music we make, please buy a copy of our album. We are small and poorly distributed, but we have a good album for you. Let these songs out of your computer. Hope you're doing well out there.