Mike
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Musician, Book Slinger, Shirker |
| Location | Madison, MS |
| Interests | Music, guitar (six-string: electric and acoustic), bass guitar, Hammond B3, home studio recording, songwriting, live performance, raising my daughter and son, tomfoolery, books, movies, hiking, camping, canoeing, history |
| Favorite Movies | Monty Python's Holy Grail, The Human Tornado, Office Space, Walkabout, The Graduate, Blow Up, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Ray, Almost Famous, Young Frankenstein, The Jerk, The Blues Brothers, A Clockwork Orange, Petey Wheatstraw, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Waking Ned Devine, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Gimme Shelter, Easy Rider, The Shining, Braveheart, Slingblade, Nice Dreams, Dolemite, Austin Powers (all 3), The Point (Nilsson), Tommyboy, Shawshank Redemption, Taxi Driver, Harold and Maude, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Who Killed That Bird On Your Window Sill?, The Song Remains the Same, The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, 200 Motels, The Life and Times of Steve Marriott. |
| Favorite Music | Humble Pie, Steve Marriott, The Small Faces, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Little Feat, Lowell George, Ry Cooder, Faces, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Terry Reid, Chuck Berry, The Black Crowes, Delaney and Bonnie, Gomez, The Band, Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsys, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Ray Charles, Peter Green, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Badfinger, The Branded Sons, David Lindley, Wet Willie, Johnny Winter, Joe Walsh, James Gang, Neil Young, Crazy Horse, Stephen Stills, Manassas, Gram Parsons, Peter Stroud, Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Smith, James Brown, Maceo Parker, Bootsy Collins, The Dexateens, Supergrass, The Redwalls, Nic Armstrong and the Thieves, The Kinks, Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention, Keith Moon, Johnny Sandlin, Ride, Kula Shaker, The Jam, Paul Weller, Oasis, Verbena, Sloan, Eddie Cochran, Sonny Boy Williamson, Taj Mahal, Kiss, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Leon Russell, Savoy Brown, The Groundhogs, Warren Haynes, Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds, Cream, Eric Clapton, Derek and the Dominoes, The Who, The Allman Brothers, Delaney and Bonnie, Wings, CCR, The Pretty Things, T. Rex, Marc Bolan, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Etta James, Janis Joplin, Scotty Moore, The Meters, Traffic, Rory Gallagher, The Police, The Talking Heads, Buzzcocks, The Fall, Television, Velvet Underground, The Mother Hips, Medeski Martin and Wood, Rose Hill Drive, Van Halen (David Lee Roth era), Deep Purple, John Scofield, Grant Green, Leo Kottke, Jerry Douglas, Brian Setzer, Stray Cats, Oasis, Free, Buffalo Springfield, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Husker Du, Cheap Trick, Ocean Colour Scene, ZZ Top, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Booker T & the MG's, Steve Cropper, Parliament, Funkadelic, Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins, John Lee Hooker, Hound Dog Taylor, Freddie King, BB King, Albert King, Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Cactus, Tommy Bolin, Muddy Waters, Hubert Sumlin, Michael Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Todd Rundgren, Emmylou Harris, Albert Lee, Head Hands and Feet, Carl Perkins, Duane Eddy, The New Mastersounds |
| Favorite Books | A lot of Anthony Burgess: The Wanting Seed, Honey for the Bears, The Doctor is Sick, A Clockwork Orange, Inside Mr Enderby, Enderby Outside, Nothing Like the Sun, The Malayan Trilogy, Tremor of Intent, The End of the World News, Mozart and the Wolf Gang, Napoleon Symphony, Any Old Iron, Byrne, All the Rage (by Ian MAC McLagan), Every book by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Road (Cormac McCarthy), all books about The Beatles (ex: The Walrus Was Paul), All Too Beautiful, Grievous Angel, Thoughts From the Diary of a Desperate Man (Walt Henrichsen), Undaunted Courage, and many more... |