Axman
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Location | Northampton, MA |
| Introduction | Axman is Steve Waksman, a professor of music and American Studies at Smith College, author of Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience and a new book on heavy metal and punk. |
| Interests | Music sweet music, playing guitar (especially my red Gibson Les Paul Studio), films that lean towards the esoteric, bad reality television (but it's oh so good), reading as much as I can about music and American culture with the occasional work of fiction thrown in. |
| Favorite movies | O Lucky Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Shock Corridor, Fanny and Alexander, Medium Cool, Killer of Sheep, Weekend |
| Favorite music | Ornette Coleman, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Black Sabbath, Kiss, John Coltrane, Van Halen, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Who, Grand Funk Railroad, Judas Priest, Ted Nugent, Motorhead, Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, P-Funk, the Minutemen, Stooges, MC5, James Brown, Howlin Wolf, King Crimson, Aerosmith, Metallica, Soundgarden, the Runaways, Muddy Waters |
| Favorite books | Remembrance of Things Past, Naked Lunch, Gravity's Rainbow, Discipline and Punish, Love and Theft, Running with the Devil, Teenage Wasteland, Stairway to Hell, Blues People, Invisible Man, Bedouin Hornbook |