Wow, that's hard. Chronological order: My dad listened to classical, then I was into Peter Paul and Mary, Beatles, The Band, Dylan, Santana, Prog bands like Yes, ELP and Jethro Tull, Rolling Stones, Zappa, Beefheart, Zeppelin, Hendrix then FREAKED over Bowie. Classical Piano lessons for ten years...really like Beethoven and Chopin. I always liked to play it more than listen to it.
THEN PUNK ROCK. First Sex Pistols then LA bands: Germs, Screamers, Weirdos, Deadbeats, Avengers Back to England Souxsie and PIL. I've gotten to play with a lot of bands that amazed me: among many others Nervous Gender; 45 Grave, Nina Hagen. I really liked Bob Marley's last album.
LOVE BRIAN ENO, Roxy Music, rediscovered Dylan Then the SST bands: Black Flag, Minutemen, Meat Puppets Finally understood the Cure, years late.
Jane's addiction was awesome, Butthole Surfers Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Melt Banana...Let me tell you, Mark Curry is awesome, Elliott Smith, Radiohead is great. Lately I can't listen to anything but Bright Eyes and a little Robert Johnson, Watt turned me on to Coltrane but haven't scratched the surface of him yet. I don't like tons of stuff, I tend to fall in love with one thing and listen like a fan. I love music that rips my heart out, or makes me drive fast, just takes my emotions and puts them on steroids. I'm really turned off if I think something is contrived or phony. I always like bands I work with, or get to know personally. I don't pretend to like bands to impress you.I know my taste is pretty cheesy. I make music for myself to listen to...I never have on background music. If I'm listening I want to be able to give 100% attention. When I record someting, I'm imagining people listening, thinking, feeling (maybe crying) not dancing, partying etc. It's just the way I am, you guys go ahead and do it your way.
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I have no style. Or lots of them. I do alot of piano/keyboard stuff, I wish I could upload more than four songs. I was trying to get more polished with my music, cause i was working in a good studio, but maybe I'm OK with my trashy punk industrial half assed garage sound.
What a fucking question.
I like emotional violence. Super happy, sad, angry, meditative...like James Joyce or something.
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I've been in lots of bands.
The Screamers, Nina Hagen, 45 Grave, Twisted Roots, Nervous Gender, Duff McKagen from Guns&Roses, Prick, Abby Travis, Leah Andreone, Geza X and the Mommy men, Mark Curry, The Joykiller, The Controllers, The Mourning Glorys, Crimony, Mike Watt and the Secondmen, DC3, Pat Smear, Saboteur, Josie Cotton, BurntChurchTheOpera, Geza X and the Mommymen... lots more, some probably I shouldn't mention. like the hour long rock opera the Arc that I wrote and performed when I was sixreen. I'm forgetting some too.
I've played or recorded with the Dead Kennedys, Redd Kross, Gene Loves Jezebel, Sacharine Trust, Plexi, Mike Watt, Tyler Hilton...millions more; no billions. I work in a studio so I get to do stuff all the time. I just produced Josie Cotten's newest album.
I've done a full length movie soundtrack: Blue Devil, Blue Devil, and a bunch of shorts, porno soundtracks, a few commercials. My music has been used for a lot of different things including the NBA and the US Marine Corp!!
I put out solo records: Abominable on SST, Curator on Vanity Press (joke)
The songs that play on the MySpace homepage is solo stuff that I do in my garage. I think that stuff is what I would hope to most get out somehow. There's, like, ten albums or something of it. It's raw.
One of the songs, "Fish out of Water" is from this cool project I did recently, BurntChurchThOpera, check out THAT website, it's bad.
I RECORD AND PRODUCE BANDS AT A GORGEOUS STUDIO IN MALIBU!!!!!
ASK ME!!!!!!
we're sooo excited to have you guys coming to the wedding and soooo so excited your going to be playing the piano. its going to be so wonderful, thoughtful, and just fuckin fun! thanks so much paul! i know you;re excited to see alex happy and this day is going to be one to remember!
Paul, Reptiles In The Sun is a great song! I look forward to playing Paul Roessler on our new radio station! Keep the good stuff comin'! Enjoy your awesome talent!! peace, Paddy
where the hell has the grand master been? i've missed you. perhaps it's i who've been missing. broke ass neck so not working, except on "the book" and now a documentary about the state of shit a person in my condition has to deal with in this country. i'm back!!! and i'm pissed! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo kara
phil jackson was asked why the lakers won and he said Kobe and Kobe's leadership and when asked why pierce went 2 for 14 shooting he said it was because kobe was forced to guard him after radmonivic got in foul trouble. only thing is he should be able to make odom and gasol more effective. it's kobe's job as mvp to not allow them to play this bad by getting them easy baskets and so far he hasn't been great in that area. although it would help if odom didn't have 3 fouls in the first half of every game. love you. p.s. we cleaned out the back room a little.
hope you guys have a killer show tonight! We are going to try and get out there....We gave you a shout out on KXLU the other night, when we played live...praise the roessler....
Hey man, I can't get Dance of The Severed Parts, out of my head. I had to put it on my page. At the beginning of the song, it just traps you so quickly....or should I say draws you in? Anyway, the band thing is going so slow. Now with Larry gone we're trying to get our new singer on the same page, but without steping on anyones toes....but it happens sometimes.
SAT. May 24 We are back in LA for a special acoustic performance @ The Cocaine located in the 2nd Street Jazz Club.....Downtown L.A.,,,,,,Playing with Victim Vision, Darryl Blood, and Oh Yeah, The Future!! ......Hope To See Ya There!
Dude I love Dance of the Severed Parts. It really makes me dance. It's probably better when a girl does it. Hope your doing good. I'll try to make it to the June 6th show.
