Ben Folds, Billy Joel, David Lanz, Stevie Wonder, George Winston, Dave Matthews, James Taylor, Justin King, GooGoo Dolls, Vertical Horizon, Stevie Vai, Joe Satriani, The Beatles, The Eagles, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Edwinn Mccain, Ellis Paul, Vance Gilbert, every local Boston musician I run in to weekly, and countless others.
On the comedic side of stuff, I love parodies by Weird Al, and songs by Tenacious D, Stephen Lynch, and others of that sort.
Sounds Like
Mix of Dave Matthews, Ben Folds, with a touch of nerdism in there somewhere.
I have a normal webpage (jonmenard.com) and alot of normal music. However, for the last 2.5 years, on and off, I've been playing an online game called World of Warcraft (yeah, everyone has a little "nerd" in them haha). Needless to say, after some time, I started to write some goofy songs about the game and the people I played it with.
Without even trying, some of my music became an underground hit.
(see http://media.putfile.com/I-Can-Be-Your-Healer-Baby for one of the bootlegged songs with over 100,000 plays).
Heck, if you "goggle" my game name, "Paladeus", you get pages of hits of people talking about this music. So, I decided to try to get a central hub of it, by using myspace.
I plan on doing a full WoW related CD, using my own recording equipment and such. I'll make sure that people know when it's done.
I hope you all enjoy the songs (for those that even know what they are about!) and if you ever want to drop me a line....the name's Paladeus on the server Skullcrusher.
