Genre-straddling, improvisational, experimental, avant-garde, cinematic, post-rock, post-modern jazz noise, with a microscopic element of "Americana" thrown in (sometimes).
I began playing guitar at the tender age of 10, and had the same general influences as anybody picking up the instrument in the mid-late '60s -- pop radio, the Beatles, Dylan, the Stones, Hendrix -- all of the usual pop guitar touchstones. Even so, something went amiss along the way in terms of my development. My brain is wired just a little bit different than some folk's (other musician's). The same could be said for my other creative activities as well. As a painter, designer, writer, filmmaker -- all things I've tried my hand at -- I'm just a little bit too warped for my own good...but probably not truly warped enough (or maybe gifted) to be truly great.
These are people whom I listen to quite a lot: David Torn, Terje Rypdal, Bill Frisell, Eivind Aarset, Dusan Jevtovic, Mark Wingfield, Henry Kaiser, Nels Cline, Sonny Sharrock, John McLaughlin, David Fiuczynski, David Gilmour, Vernon Reid, Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Shawn Lane, Andy Summers, Merle Travis, Leo Kottke, William Ackerman, Derek Bailey, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Radiohead, Beruit, The Books, Sigur Ros, Zoviet France.
Don't look at that list of names andexpect me to sound too much like any of them. I stubbornly resist copying people. I want to be creative and I enjoy doing what I do however. So, here I offer up to you some of the my objects of anguish, labor, and toil from the past four decades.
Don't ask me about gear. Past and present, I've too much to list. No, really. I have multiple redundant rigs. You would be bored stupid (or fall asleep) if I start talking gear. I own enough to do what needs to be done two or three times over, plus my own PA. If you want to look at some pictures, go to:
