Tim Tweedale
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ideas, senses, sensations and experiencesMusic
J.S. Bach
, Beethoven, George Gershwin, Brian WilsonMiles Davis
, Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, Keith Jarrett, Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, Joe Pass, Oliver NelsonRichard Thompson
, Richard Buckner, Kim Barlow, Patty Griffin, John Prine, Van Dyke Parks, The Silver Jews, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Magnetic Fields, Warren ZevonRun DMC
, Public EnemyHank Williams
, Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, The Dixie ChicksRy Cooder
, The Allman BrothersDavid Grisman
, Tony Rice, Norman Blake, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, Alison Krauss and Union StationThe Beach Boys
, Dead Can Dance____________
Steel Players now go in a separate category. Here are my favourites from past and present. Look them up! You won't be disappointed:
On 6 strings:
David Lindley, Debashish Bhattacharya, Sol Hoopii, Jerry Douglas and Ben Harper
On 7 strings:
Jerry Byrd
On 8 strings:
Darick Campbell
, Joaquin MurpheyOn 10 string pedal steel:
Paul Franklin
, Buddy Emmons, Curly Chalker, Lloyd GreenOn 12 string pedal steel:
Chuck Campbell (from The Campbell Brothers)
, Roosevelt Collier (from The Lee Boys)And because I'm on a roll
, here are my favourite local bands and musicians: Mother, Steve Dawson, Jesse Zubot, Veda Hille, The Be Good Tanyas, Po Girl, Paul Rigby, Paul Pigat, the SFU Gamelan Orchestra, Bradshaw Pack (though he's a composer more than a band).I also like the bands I play in. They are:
The Blue Island Trio
Corbin Murdoch and The Nautical Miles
Headwater
Kent McAlister and His Band
Sarah MacDougall
Tariq
Uncommon Gold
Viper Central
Movies
I just saw "Little Miss Sunshine" and I was crazy about it, so that movie. I guess stuff by Christopher Nolan, like Memento and The Prestige. stuff by Lars von Trier, in particular "Dancer in The Dark"Stanley Kubrick
, in particular "Dr. Strangelove",Hal Hartley
, in particular "Simple Men" (and especially the scene about trouble and desire. But I like "Trust" a lot too. I need to watch his movies again. I love them.Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Christopher Guest, Woody Allen and David Mamet.
Television
Books
Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami, John Steinbeck, John Berger, Dave Eggers, Douglas Hoffstadter, Iain M. Banks.Heroes
Jerry Douglas for dobro, Joaquin Murphey for lap steel, Buddy Emmons for C6 Pedal Steel, Paul Franklin for E9 pedal steel and Debashish Bhattacharya for everything else.
Latest Blog Entries
- May 1, 2008 6:12 AM Long absence
- Jul 3, 2007 3:30 AM Life is Beautiful.
- Apr 5, 2007 5:13 AM Today, I ate my iPod
- Feb 17, 2007 9:09 PM Puttin' the "Dude" back in Deuteronomy
- Feb 7, 2007 11:17 PM The Way Things Work (Beginners' Edition)
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About me:
..Hello. I enjoy spending time with the good people of the world, listening to music, playing music, reading books, thinking, walking in the woods, swimming in the water, riding toboggans, sitting on porches, lying in hammocks, building forts and/or rafts, recording songs, writing things down, creating ideas, obsessing over forms, and stuff.
I also enjoy sunshine, oxygen and presents.
Who I'd like to meet:
First of all: the people that I always wanted to meet and now I have met:
David Lindley
Bill Frisell
Debashish Bhattacharya
Jerry Douglas
Sonny Landreth
still on the list:
Ry Cooder
Bruce McCullough
Details
- Status: Single
- Hometown: Vancouver
- Orientation: Straight
- Religion: Atheist
- Zodiac Sign: Cancer
- Education: Some college
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