Researching blues, folk, and Celtic music, and collecting obscure recordings and bootlegs...living in rural heaven in the wilds of County Galway with my wife and my animals.... walking my three dogs on lonely forestry roads at dusk 'til dark, and then going for an early pint...the buzz of returning to the big cities now and again for gigs and to see friends and family...talking to the great old characters round here and learning the history of the area and the family connections....playing Irish music in a late night session with a bunch of guys with an average age of over 70 - and leaving the pub at 2 a.m....
Music
Bob Dylan, Country Joe McDonald, Jackie Leven (WHY IS THIS MAN NOT A SUPERSTAR?????), Kelly Joe Phelps, Richard Thompson, John Otway, Judee Sill, Ron Kavana (one of the most underrated artistes ever), Shane MacGowan & The Pogues, The Popes, Nic Jones, Fairport Convention, John Hiatt, The Ramones, Frank Zappa, Altan, The Byrds, Gene Parsons, Terry Allen, Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen, The Muffin Men, Mike West & Truckstop Honeymoon, Robyn Hitchcock, They Must Be Giants, Little Feat, Ry Cooder...........oh, God, everyone who's ever graced my record collection.....
Movies
Paris, Texas - the greatest film ever made. Bunuel's "Un Chien Andalou"- the weirdest film ever made. "Woodstock" the greatest doucementary music movie ever made. "Renaldo & Clara" - as Dylan made this film on so many levels I'm convinced even HE didn't know what it was about in the end....
Television
What's one of those? Oh, yeah, the thing that my DVD machine is connected to....
Books
I'm a voracious reader, and love biographies, especially anything about sixties culture - anything by Clinton Heylin (because he entertains and infuriates me in equal measure, being in turn incredibly well informed or totally wrong!), Brian Hinton because he's a superb writer, and Alan Clayson because not only is his knowledge outstanding but his prose is wonderful, and Lester Bangs because he was just plain barking mad. Also Bob Dylan for "Chronicles" (but not for "Tarantula" - well, O.K., bits of it are pretty good), the travel writer Eric Newby, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Ian Rankin, Robert Rankin, Graham Hurley, Michael Moore, Hunter S. Thompson, John Steinbeck, Flann O'Brien, Ben Elton, Dylan Thomas, Brendan Behan, Ken Kesey, Irvine Walsh, Ian Banks etc etc. etc....
Heroes
Bob Dylan, the great mountaineer Henrich Harrer, A.Wainwright - the finest cartographer of English mountains ever, A.J. Weberman for singlemindness above the call of duty, Francis O'Neill - collector of the greatest collection of Irish music back in the last century, Arthur Rimbaud, Woody Guthrie, John Lydon - for always doing EXACTLY what he wants to do, Shane MacGowan - for still being alive despite everyone's doom and gloom predictions over the last twenty years, and Country Joe McDonald - for just being Joe....
John's Details
Status:
Married
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Portsmouth
Zodiac Sign:
Cancer
Smoke / Drink:
No / Yes
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
High school
John John Roberts is looking forward to THE ROBIN BIBI BAND's Irish tour! Blues rock at its best!First gig tomorrow, Thurs 26th- Lower Deck, Portobello, Dublin. Posted at 3:35 PM Nov 25 view more
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Who I'd like to meet: Bob Dylan- to teach him to play spoons.
A.J. Weberman- the greatest Dylanologist ever (This is now a redundant remark as I mdeet him in New York early this year, and spent a fascinating time in his company- he's still rages against the mchine!!!!) .
Robert Crumb - and why not? (And he's now my friend on Facebook!)
I'm a bit late for Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Jerry Garcia, Brendan Behan, J.M.Synge, Lenny Bruce, Rene Magritte, Joseph Spence, Blind Willie Johnson, Salvador Dali, Joe Cooley (awesome Irish accordian player), The Reverend Gary Davis, The (original) Ballinakill Celii Band & Dylan Thomas.....
I think it was some of that golden syrup on the shelf beside me..RED BREAST WHISKEY....part of a successful show -- "wined down" process ...pretty smug with myself on that one..!!
Have a very groovy weekend and if you get time check the new Live-trax loaded from our current Strictly Frankly Musical Revue tour... By all means feel free to comment ! We wont hold it against you ....we promise
please ta meet ya,john....i love lowdown dirty blues of Crying Sam Collins/Charley Patton to high & Lonsome Roscoe Holcomb types..to the country of Hank snr/III !!
All the best John..keep me informed as I love talking record collections & finding new stuff & gigs !! -Dave
Yes gigging a fair bit... changes in line up but spirit still the same!!. Have a look at 'Somethin Else' link of my page!..... I will also track you down later on Facebook, it took me a while to get to grips with but now quite into it... massive time waster though. Cheers John, catch you soon.
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