from Laurie Anderson to Frank Zappa and all points in between. from old to new. Some of my favorite shows...Peter Gabrial in 1982 at the Agora Ballroom in Dallas changed the way I thought about music. He made me realize there was way more to the picture than meets the eye. Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders at TAMU in 1985 was another magical night. "I just want to kiss the stage Iggy Pop spit on" is one of my favorite live quotes. Hanging out with Willie at the Luck Texas World Headquarters on Easter Sunday 1997 was another great moment. Speaking of Texas music, the Butthole Surfers...what can you say about them but HOLY SHIT! Who else??? There's so many; David Byrne and David Bowie. I love reggae. Austin's The Killer Bee's are awsome. Dread Zeppelin is another. SRV was amazing. Speaking of guitar gods, I NEVER saw anything like Frank Zappa...the man was in a league of his own, RIP. Then of coarse there's Erik Johnson, Steve Vai, Beck and Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page playing with the Black Crows, Robert Plant, The Dead, Jerry Garcia, Kate Bush, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Kinks, Bob Dylan and The Band, Little Feat, Jane's Addiction, The Crystal Method...the list just goes on and on and on and on...Oh yeah ELP and Jimi Hendrix. Then there was Tommy Bolin.................
Movies
Repo Man, The Big Labowski, W.C. Fields in 'The Bank Dick', Dr. Strangelove, True Grit, Allegro Non Troppo, and Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings to name a few. Let us never forget 'The Blues Brothers', "DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT?!?"
Television
as little a possible
Books
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, Slaughter House Five...Catch 22, Brave New World, Through the Looking Glass, The Thurber Carnival, Childhood's End, Dune, and the list just goes on and on and on and on...
Heroes
T.S. Elliot
"Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table..."
"...We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown." T. S. Elliot
HEY RANDY, JUST DROPPING BY TO SAY HI! I HOPE YOU HAVE A SUPER WEEK END!! GREG
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Hey, remember when you commented us (or at least thought about it) and asked us to put up more songs? Well, we took your comment (or thought) into consideration and posted a new song! Tell us what you think ;-)
Cordially, Johnny AIVA
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