Ross Allaire, 29 - guitars, vocals, synths, drum sequencing, lyrics, arrangements, recording, mixing, engineering, production, art design, layout, public relations, advertising, management
Nate Amidon, 30 - studio engineer, creative consultant, medical, legal
Aristodemus, 4 - processing, remixing
Influences
Seriously... all this... and more! I am influenced by everything I hear. I went to Miami on vacation and when I got back I started practicing little salsa riffs just because. I haven't used one yet, but in the end everything is an influence. Here are the big ones:
Radiohead
Bob Dylan
Bad Religion
The Cure
The Police
Marilyn Manson
Sonic Youth
UNDERLYING:
Aphex Twin
Ozric Tentacles
Explosions in The Sky
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
GOES WITHOUT SAYING:
The Beatles
John Lennon
Wings
Does Wings surprise you? Or John Lennon, separately? I love the Beatles. They are one of the greatest band on the planet, as far as I'm concerned... not just because they are who they are... they made so much good music, but they also did so much with their music. In the Lennon/McCartney songs, the music and lyrics are married perfectly, but are also the collages of musical concepts. Having 1 hits with songs that don't have a real chorus was their gift to rock n' roll forever, to be a little more progressive, but keep it tight. Really George Martin is the unsung hero of the whole thing. He should be in the PRIMARY section just because I've learned so much about producing music from listening to Beatles albums. Him and Dre. But Martin was the 6th Beatle. The 5th was that black guy that played keyboard :) Much kudos to Billy Preston, and Tony Sheridan for that matter.
I am influenced by listeners like you! :)
Just kidding.
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?
All of the music you are hearing is post-grunge progressive electronic psychedelic metal punk rock from a one-man/one-computer band independently based in the Milky Way Galaxy on the planet Earth in South Jersey, and on the Internet.
I go by the handle "Gunshy" on Newgrounds.com, but you may know that already. It's kinda confusing, to me... but whatever. There are about 50 other bands called Gunshy. Ross, however corny of a "band" name, is my name. And right now I'm the only one in the band, yeah what I say goes.
I'm Ross Allaire, and I'm taking over rock n' roll. It needs me!
A new name is coming soon, though; I never wanted to have a band name like 'The Ross Allaire Experience' or 'Ross Allaire and The Somethings' or something like that... it's all so... arrogant, cavalier even.
I mean, every musician does it for a reason, and immortality of some sort from the process of recording factors in there somewhere, as is. But to be so bold that it's like the rest of the band doesn't matter at all? Fuck that.
However, the fact that I don't have a 'rest of the band' at this point, yet, means that the band is Ross Allaire. I am Ross Allaire. Everything you're hearing is produced by me, at a desk, in a darkened studio/office. So yeah, the music is Ross Allaire. I hope you're enjoying it.
Besides, I'd rather just be the songwriter, and let more talented and shall we say, economically viable musicians and singers do the touring and promotions. I'll be the background guy. I'll be like Quincy Jones or even Glen Ballard.
I would relish the opportunity.
But for now, here I am.
Here it is. The music of Ross.
Ross music.
Ross rock.
Ross is a different kind of music, altogether.
"It's a different kind of music."
'Airplane!' reference, there. Get it? :)
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 than is usually the case with techno, but even the grunge is pretty prog for grunge. It's psychedelic because I use a wah-wah pedal. I have punk and funk influences. I like the Sex Pistols and George Clinton, in addition to all these other influences. I have many, many influences.
This music is music for your brain, too.
All the music you are hearing was conceived, recorded, produced, mixed, and engineered at the Egg House, which has moved several times throughout South Jersey, by me. We were in Woodbury Heights, and then Pitman, and now we've set up shop in Willingboro, NJ, in an effort to migrate north, slowly.
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.
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This band's dark, forboding profile was tweaked and fucked-with and personalized using some stupid basic-as-hell profile editor that I found while using Google badly, 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).
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