Name: Arthur Brown

Birthplace: Yorkshire

Currently residing: East Sussex

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

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1. Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

Brassens, Stephen Sondheim, Bartok, Lightning Hopkins, Howlin Wolf, James Brown, Nina Simeone, Moulettes, Lena Lovich, Fela Kuti, Toots and the Maytals, Bob Marley, Estrella Morante, Leonard Cohen, Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, John Coltraine, Holst, Kate Bush, Mozart, Stockhausen, Bessie Smith, Frank Zappa, Lonnie Donnegan, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, Kitten and the Hip, Z-Star, Ivor Cutler, Talking Heads, Duke Ellington, Queen, Ken Colyer, Michel Lagoa, Joni Mitchell, the Residents, Ladysmith Black Mambazu, Louis Armstrong, Yat Kha, Peter Gabriel, Eminem, Laura Nyro, Carrie Tree, Afro Celt Sound system, Dr John, Mahvishnu Orchestra, The Smiths, Danny Thompson, Sam Walker, Lucie and Wayne and the Amairican Stream, Camaron, Antarayni, Victor Jara, Richie Havens, Nusrat Fattah AliKhan, Luna Loop. Judge Smith, Kate and Nick Pynn, Jane Bombane, Tina Turner, Maddy Prior, every busker I’ve ever heard, Bjork, Odetta, Oliver Rajamani , Zee Rock and The Flying Balalaika Brothers and a thousand others.

2. Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

Egyptian Ella, sung by Fatima Spar.or You’ll never Walk Alone (piano version) by Nina Simone.

3. How would you describe your perfect day?

my perfect day is, I wake up, have breakfast, and then see what comes.

4. What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

Ask my friends

5. What is your most valued material possession?

whichever one I’m looking at, at the time.

6. Who were you or would you be nervous to meet?

I just had my first date with a gorgeous lady tonight. I noticed that before we actually got to rendezvous- vous, I was nervous for a few seconds.

7. If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

my favourite place to be is always “here”

8. Is there something you’d like to do more of at the moment?

See my grandchildren.

9. Where would I like to find myself in ten years?

Still on my feet!

Name: javier ryan

Birthplace: afton, mn

Currently residing: missoula, mt

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence: i was in choir since i i was lttile and thought iwas gonna make comics strips and started teaching myself piano at lunch breaks in ninth grade and then switched to electric organs that i’d watched my grandad play and switched to more portable guitar after graduating from high school and tragedy struck in college and i could’nt paint anymore so i put the pepper on writing and singin’ songs and that’s gone on and off for ten yearsish but i got into looping and drum machines and even had a band with traffic called special peoples and played keys with grit for a while and now i play bass with SHAHS and try to write pop music on my looping setup that sounds like prince MJ george michael billy idol and big black all capture on a demo called PARIS MINGUS made with audacity on a 2003 macbook’s internal mic.

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1. Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

me like madlib, dilla, metalfingaz (DOOM), grimes, xxyyxx, shuggie otis, pharoah saunders, miles davis, john coltrane, squarepusher, and tom waits. ini kamoze, LEN, yello, r. kelly, kanye, lana del rey. fine young cannibals, willie nelson, bjork, bonnie raitt.

2. Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

“your mother wouldn’t wanna see you with a poor boy.”? -nick ryan, skin flowers.

3. How would you describe your perfect day?

waking up at 11 so i can say “good morning” without people smart-assing at me. do my emails and my social media then practice guitar scales to the news then random ufo vids then some actual shows interlaced with some songs (UMO has been bumped a lot lately.) then i walk downtown with my guitar and start working on whatever new songs-wait… perfect day. i was doing typical. perfect day: wake up after noon in a tour bus in a new town. eat a decent breakfast and then walk around looking at architecture or people in hopes of finding some i get along with. work on new beats, sound check, dinner, play the show and after party a little then get some rest and do it all over again.

4. What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

when i leave, so does my aroma. if you’re done with that, i will finish it. i can sleep most places and even through a party. sometimes i have stuff in my beard and they laugh. and i believe in stuff with a child-like somethingness.

5. What is your most valued material possession?

easy. 1985 sequential TOM420 drum sequencer or the  roland gaia.

6. Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

probably grimes. and i’d be nervous about being nervous. she’s a dissonance genius and she seems nice from her interviews. i have no filter and an extremely dark sarcastic sense of humor, especially when i’m nervous, so i’d be afraid of trying to be funny then having to dig my foot out of my mouth. i should probably just stick to one word impersonal responses, grunts, and nods. and then i’d just be worried about smiling too much and if i was holding my arms in a weird way. i mean really who does that with their arms? idiot! idiot! idiot!

7. If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

maybe in a really tall building, or san francisco, or watching a ufo zip around. i saw one over los alamos once. really.

8. Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

i really like recording and producing. i scored a short film. i just started writing a new concept album, and i think i’d like to get more into making videos. i want to make a multidimensional experience of it all, like another reality is bleeding into ours. you know? like t.v. but on a stage. i want to be the j.j. abrams of pop music.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years? it would be nice if i could find myself in less than 10 years.

Name: Fel Torres

Birthplace: Azores, Portugal

Currently residing: Missoula, Montana

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence: I come from a long line of guitar players all the way down to my dad so naturally I started playing drums at 11yrs old, first band at 13 (metal), played in highschool band and some jazz lessons in college time frame, moved to Missoula in 96 and played in Spy Kiss, Fuse, Superfire, Ouija, Thetan Revival, Maria, The New Hijackers & The Cold Hard Cash Show as well as some fill ins throughout the past recent years.

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1. Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

Freddy Mercury

Shannon Hoon

Brian Setzer

Led Zeppelin

John Bonham

Bob Dylan

Rolling Stones

Stevie Wonder

Robert Johnson

Iron Maiden

Dennis Chambers

Johnny Cash

Phil Collins

Qotsa

Waylon Jennings

MMW

Willie Nelson

Ween

So many many many more…

2. Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

“White collared conservative flashing down the street, Pointing their plastic finger at me. They’re hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I’m gonna wave my freak flag high, high. Wave on, wave on. Fall mountains, just don’t fall on me. Go ahead on Mr. Business man, you can’t dress like me. Sing on Brother, play on drummer.” -Jimi Hendrix “If 6 was 9”

3. How would you describe your perfect day?

A G Rated day or X?

4. What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

Hmm… I’m always willing to help? I don’t know, you’d have to ask them 🙂

5. What is your most valued material possession?

My drums, guitars and guns……..Gawd that sounds so white trash.

6. Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

Being in a Tribute band that fits in so many situations we get hired for a lot of private parties and festivals and such which has put us in the presence of a lot of high profile people and musicians and have been blessed to have played with a number of them as well so I kind of got over the star struckness of it all but I think Page, Plant or any of the Stones or Elton would be a pretty nervous time.

7. If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

Portugal.

8. Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

Touring. More touring and another rock project.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

On stage in front of 80,000 people.