blindbeatroot

I great up in NY in the 70's in the wild west. I worked on the streets, and lived a strange life with my mother dying when I was one year old, I soon learned to fend for myself. I like to self reliant, then I can help others. Then I went to the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and lived in California for a while. Then I lived in Europe for 12 years.

I didn't own a phone or a TV for 15 years because I was always travelling. You don't learn 4 Languages from sitting at home on your ass watching TV! I did that by travelling. The whole idea of a journey should be NOT having a plan that gets in the way of fun, music, and potential. I never let the original plan keep me from learning and opportunity. Why bother booking a return flight? I probably won't come back.

I was a manager at PBS FM for 4 years, now I mostly play guitar and tour, but whe I am in Melbourne, I work part time for JMC Academy, an entertainment university that does university courses for audio engineering, TV production, performance and music business management.

I play with The Vagrants Have played too many gigs to remember, including major Australian festivals, European and American tours. www.thevagrants.com.au
and I write for Faster Louder becuase I love the site, and love the Australian music scene. I hope I can help to put you on to some music that you will enjoy for life.

Interests

Surfing, snowboarding, gigs, playing music, recording, Politics, swimming, reading, languages, sex and drugs and rock and roll

Fave Music

Ben Harper, Allman Brothers, K-ocilate, True Live, Rich Webb, Baby Animals, Kraftwerk, U2, P Funk, James Brown, Miles Davis, and Bach

Fave Movies

Zoolander, The Anchorman, Jagged Edge, Murder of Crows, Green Mile, True Lies, A History of Violence

Fave Books

David Yallop ( all of them) Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and all, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5