| Influences |
Motto: I like a little bit of everything and not much of anything.
IN DISORDER: The Beatles and each Beatle, Nick Lowe, Bill Withers, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, THE most subtly brilliant, deceptively simple and utterly life-affirming singer/songwriter working in the 21st Century--RON SEXSMITH (any of you who love any of the preceding artists listed OWE it to yourselves to buy the latest 3 records by Ron), the Dave Clark Five, the Rutles, the Cramps, Joni Mitchell, Little Feat, Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Canned Heat, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Sly and the Family Stone, Al Green, the late MOST HOLY & MAGNIFICENT Al JACKSON, Booker T and the MGs, Teenie Hodges, Richard Thompson, T-Rex, War, the Decemberists, December's Children, Aretha Franklin, A Band of Bees, the Jayhawks, Marshall Crenshaw, the Pretenders, CHRISTINE PERFECT MCVIE the English VOICE of love and sex, Fleetwood Mac, Greg Bell, Larry Bennett, Greg Tahtinen, Joan Hess, Bill Shirk & WERK, A Group Called Smith, the Brill Building, the Wrecking Crew, the Archies, the Banana Splits, the Cowsills, the Doors, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aimee Mann, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, James Gang, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly, the Grand Funk Railroad live album, mid-period King Crimson, Beck, Jeff Beck, Steve Gadd, Steely Dan, James Brown, Lee "Scratch" Perry and all dub reggae, Parliament/Funkadelic, the late & beloved PHILLIPE WYNN of the Spinners, the Staple Singers, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Tommy James & the Shondells, the Zombies, the Sundays, Hindi dance pop, Naked Eyes version of "Always Something There To Remind Me," ZZ Top, Sky King/Ultimatum, the Shearers, The Funky Ducks, Mickey & Butch Rutledge (Plux & Pix), Spunk w/ Debbie Barton & Rick Gonendyke, Dave Nelson & the Hotel Muncie, Donny Wilson, Von Neumann, Tom Sullivan, Stan Woodgett, Frank Arnold, Telegraph, the Upsetters, 100 one-hit wonders, The Fainting Goats, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, FRANZ KLINE, Willem DeKooning, Michaelangelo, Van Gogh the human being, Mom, Dad, Matt, Amy, Nevada, and Mrs. Volume. |
