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Russ Van Rooy
Folk Rock / Ambient / Psychedelic

		the 'Ed Wood' of Psychedelic Rock Evanston, Illinois United States Profile Views: 13574 Last Login: 11/1/2009
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Member Since	3/17/2006
Band Website	This is my website !
Band Members	Russell Van Rooy - electric and acoustic guitars,slide guitars,electric guitar with echo, bass, vocals, electronic programming, composition, production.
Influences	Favorite Bands,Musicians & Stuff I like: Tom Verlaine,Richard Lloyd, Television,Sonic Youth,Neil Young ,Richard Thompson, Bob Mould ,Jessica Bailiff,Robert Fripp,Eleventh Dream Day,MyBloodyValentine, Bill Frisell,Jimi Hendrix,Flying Saucer Attack,Bardo Pond,Pink Floyd,Patti Smith Group, Capt. Beefheart ,The Grateful Dead,The Byrds,Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young,The Velvet Underground, The Dream Syndicate,Joy Division,The Who,The Stooges,Cocteau Twins,Devo,Dinosaur Jr,The Beatles,Bob Dylan,Jeff Buckley,Jim Page,PJ Harvey,Nirvana,Jefferson Airplane,Howling Wolf,Matthew Sweet and much much more... Favorite Authors: Rudy Rucker,Chuck Klosterman,Philip K Dick,Roger Penrose,Marco Vassi,Peter Mathiessen,Michael Grant,John Derbyshire,Edward Gibbon,Fyodor Doestoevsky,David Sedaris,Livy,Homer,Alan Watts,Heinz Pagals,Robert Pirsig,Richard Brautigan,Gabrial Garcia Marquez,Herman Hesse,Spalding Gray,Jack Kerouac,Charles Baudlaire,Raymond Carver,Sylvia Plath,Brian Greene,David Deutsche,Martin Rees,Tom Wolf,Yogananda,Robert Kaplan,C.J. Jung,Lester Bangs,Bertrand Russell,Lao Tzu,John Cramer et al. desert island book: The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics Recent Good Movies: ever changing list... Into the Wild, I'm not there,No Country for Old Men, There will be Blood, Juno,Stand by Me,West world,Gonzo,Slacker Uprising,Your Gonna Miss Me Important Mentions: I love my wife,the best friend I've ever had, Leah,my family and friends in Seattle,Portland, and Kalamazoo, and now Chicago!, Heros:Yogananda,Alaxandre Grothendieck, Richard Feynman,Alan Kay,Gautama Sakymuni Buddha,Maya Deren,Hypatia,Abraham Lincoln are greatly admired by me. Mathematics is my religion,MySpace 'friends',air, Perrier,strong coffee,anything that can inspire and BoingBoing.
Sounds Like	Flying Saucer Attack, Tom Verlaine,Neil Young, Bardo Pond,David Gilmour,Bob Dylan,Jackson Browne
Type of Label	Major

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About Russ Van Rooy

Russ Van Rooy is a composer/performer of melodic soundscapes, psychedelic rock guitar rave-ups, and acoustic folk rock songs popular on other planets. Much of what inspires Russ is the mythos and cosmology of the universe, the strangeness of consciousness and the mathematics of reality. Russ' instrumentation includes electric and acoustic guitars, analog echo and fuzz tone and sound manipulations.

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JaGoFF	May 13 2009 9:04 PM we meet again. nice work, brother.
MR. RICHARD	Apr 26 2009 11:14 PM JUS' STOPPED BY TO SAY hey & ALWAYZ "thanx", FOR THE most gracious ADD ..... GREATest RESPECTS FOR YOUR WORK ...... ROCK ON !!!!! MR. RICHARD
kevin m. kirker	Mar 4 2009 12:16 AM hail! wishing you the best for this coming year! many thanks for everything!! ;D happy harping!
Thielus Grenon	Dec 14 2008 3:57 AM Merry Christmas.
belmondos	Sep 21 2008 12:13 AM Thanks for the request! Maybe we 'll see you again soon!
the Pink Snowflakes	Aug 7 2008 9:56 PM Great Songs, Russ! Let us know when you come out to Portland.
Betsy Mullen	Aug 2 2008 2:05 PM Thank you for adding us to your circle of friends. "SEEK TO DO BRAVE & LOVELY THINGS THAT ARE LEFT UNDONE BY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE. GIVE GIFTS OF LOVE & PEACE TO THOSE WHOM OTHERS PASS BY." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda LIVE LIKE SUMER BE UNIQUE SHOW COMPASSION SEEK KNOWLEDGE EMBRACE YOUR CREATIVITY SEE BEAUTY IN YOUR SURROUNDINGS AND OTHERS BE TRUE TO YOURSELF GIVE BACK HAVE FUN SEEK ADVENTURE BE OPEN TO NEW IDEAS AND EXPERIENCES SHOW YOUR INTELLIGENCE INDULGE YOUR CURIOSITY BE BRAVE ACT DON’T WAIT Sumer Nicole Alvarez -- 5/30/85 – 7/30/05 “WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Ken Rubenstein	Aug 2 2008 5:27 AM Hey Russ...your tunes are great. I hear the Verlaine influence, for sure and I really dig that fuzz-bagpipe-ish solo in "So Pretty". It's nice to meet a (serious) musician into(serious) math.
Leo Back	Jul 15 2008 11:05 PM Hey Russ Like yer stuff- cool sound Thanks for the req- Lets Talk Peace Leo
Boat Burning live Wed 11/11 NIGHTLIGHT Chapel Hill	Jul 3 2008 12:39 AM Hey Russ, love your stuff -- its like Tom Verlaine on steroids. Would love to know how you get your sound... See you on the tv list, -A Boat Burning Amps Do Furnish A Room
Greg Spence Wolf	Apr 9 2008 5:06 AM Dig the Tibetan flag Russ Greg
Worldwide Progressive Movement	Apr 7 2008 8:27 AM Thanks for adding me. ¶ Love, but not blindly -- don't confuse it with sleep. Love all people, but not all ideas; think to distinguish helpful ideas from hurtful ones. We are immersed in a culture of destructiveness, and we must end it before it ends us. Our many problems have a common root: Bullies, liars, thieves, and murderers — particularly those in public office — believe people are motivated only by greed and fear. They want us to share that belief, because they use it to justify themselves and to manipulate us. That belief shapes the economic and political systems of the world. But you and I have found something better inside ourselves and our friends. It's in everyone, if we can just wake them — we're all one flesh and blood. Let us spread that word, for until we do our other advances will be minor and temporary. The outcome to the ideological struggle is not yet determined, so no one can afford to be a spectator. Join the conversation. ¶ The Iraq war, like most wars, was based on lies. And now the occupation is making new enemies faster than it can kill them; that's helpful only to arms dealers. The economy is all wrong too: the rich get richer and fewer, everyone else gets screwed, and the ecosystem gets trashed. These problems are not new, but lately they've become so blatant that we've begun to understand them. It's time to end the military-industrial complex and the corporatocracy. We the people must control government, and government must control business, not the other way around. A good start would be transparency in government, public financing of election campaigns, trustbusting the media, and ending corporate personhood. ¶ Question authority. Keep on fighting, loving, hoping, and singing. Hand in hand, we may still be able to heal the world. — Love, Eric
TEMPER	Nov 5 2007 11:50 PM thanks for the add russ !,nice acoustic stuff ,make me want to add guitar things ...cheers !
NZM	Oct 11 2007 3:20 AM We were having a contest to see who looked dumbest in those glasses. Say hi to Mom and Hannah for me, though I talked to Hannah recently when I sent her this video, you should watch: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4991481354520679925&q=russian+animation+matches&total=5&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Adios, Nolan
Tom Verlaine	Oct 2 2007 6:07 PM Hi. The dvd is now out and reviews are beginning to come in: "Remarkable, essential, and endlessly watchable" says The New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/article/63769 "One of the greatest movie nights of my life" - Cumbustible Celluloid http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/classic/tomverl.shtml I've blogged more reviews on the site.
Tom Verlaine	Aug 16 2007 8:50 PM Hi. Thanks for the add and helping to spread the word. All the best.
Deaf Mute Heroine	Jul 21 2007 12:49 PM Hi, Russ, Hope you are recovering. How could anyone leave you in the rain? Cheers, DMH
Murdock	Jul 20 2007 6:23 AM Hi Russ, thanks for the request and the very nice comments! grtz, Murdock!
Deaf Mute Heroine	Jun 16 2007 8:10 AM Hi, Russ, I wish you all the luck with your gigs this weekend! If only I could teletransport myself to Seattle to see you :-( Cheers, Laura
the Dt's	May 31 2007 6:01 PM thanks for the request and welcome to the Dt's Hard Soul Hit Squad! New Album Out Now!
Steve	May 31 2007 1:41 PM Hey Russ, Thanks for the comment. I hide behind a myriad of disguises! The Wavewalkers are the most recent musical venture for Raymond Gorman, who was in one of my favorite bands, That Petrol Emotion. He's got some demos floating around that are very good. The Wavewalkers have a MySpace site. You should check it out and drop Raymond a line - he's a great guy, and your musicial tastes likely overlap.
Robin Brodsky	May 5 2007 2:26 PM Thanks so much for your sweet comment - you made my day!! Hope you have a great weekend & all the best from Boston - ROBIN xoxoxo
Deaf Mute Heroine	Feb 25 2007 1:41 PM Hi, Russ, How are you doing? Your new song, Grothendieck, is cool! I wish you all the luck finding new bandmates! I got some friends who play drums and bass guitar, but they're too far from Kalamazoo -about 4,000 miles away, I'am afraid ;-) Cheers, Laura
NZM	Jan 12 2007 7:08 AM Haven't really been on enough to change it...
Deaf Mute Heroine	Jan 1 2007 10:26 PM Happy new year! I wish the best for you in 2007. Laura

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