PopTodd

The Autobiography Of Malcolm X - Malcolm X/Alex Haley Harpo Speaks! - Harpo Marx/Rowland Barber 9 Stories - J.D. Salinger Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salaman Rushdie The Tao Te Ching Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut So, that's 6. So sue me!

Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On Chumbawumba - Tubthumper Sebadoh - Bakesale Jim Ford - Point Of No Return Judas Priest - Living After Midnight: The Best Of Judas Priest

Brian Eno's home studio.

I was young and they had a lot of my favorite artists. Just seemed like the one to go with. Like I said, I was young.

I'm with BMI, but haven't had anything like near enough activity to be able to tell you what the hell they've done for me.

So. Central Rain Seven Chinese Brothers Fall On Me Pilgrimage Texarcana White Tornado Radio Free Europe

I just want to be there when the shit hits the fan Catch it all in a bucket and then use what I can...

I lost my Big Muff in a flood. (Yeah, it always sounds funny when you talk about it.) And I use a TurboRAT pedal, but only for leads and solos, because of all the gain. Such a beast.

Try picking up a Big Muff fuzz. You can get really big, fat, hairy sounds out of that thing! Thick, syrupy, and nasty. Almost like a breathing beast.

The violin solo on Camper Van Beethoven's cover of Black Flag's "Wasted"

Of course I know that we're gonna get a few folks listing: Brian May (Queen), Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), and Stevie Ray Vaughan. And I can dig it. But, for my money, the greatest guitar tone ever is Brinsley Schwarz In particular, on the Brinsley Schwarz song "Dry Land" from the album Silver Pistol. So, so perfect. And, props also to Nash Kato (Urge Overkill) for the raunchy rhythm guitar tone on "Sister Havanah".

Verbow

Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation Wire - Chairs Missing Dwight Yoakam - The Very Best Of... various artists - Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson

I don't remember what of this album I've heard (if anything). It's been so long. If you want to send me anything, it's your pick. And, I really do appreciate it. Just a song or 2 for the mix. Thanks!

I have some of his stuff on cassette. So, if you have some in digital format, I would love to add him to the mix. Maybe "Cowboys and Indians"?

I onec met Mangum (Very briefly) and he seemed like a pretty good, fairly normal (is somewhat shy) guy to me. I incuded him on myu mix just because of his apparent dissappearance from "the scene" and the subsequent mystique that surrounded him.

Here's my mix lineup: Artists whom at least part of their mystique came from either their reclusiveness or damaged psyche or both. Syd Barrett - Here I Go Nick Drake - Things Behind the Sun Roky Erickson - Two-Headed Dog Daniel Johnston - Speeding Motorcycle (live) Emmitt Rhodes - Fresh As a Daisy Jim Ford - Harlan County Peter Laughner - Baudelaire R. Stevie Moore - I Wish I Could Sing Robert Wyatt - Born-Again Cretin Beach Boys - Cabin Essence Wesley Willis - Steve Albini Jeff Mangum - I Love How You Love Me (Phil Spector cover) I'll upload sometime soon. Link to come.

Pugwash - Almanac Wesley Willis - Prisonshake (and a friend's compilation of songs from albums that he got for "50

Steve Vai and he actually means to be funny. But, you know, you still ain't gonna beat Jimi Hendrix in this category, either.

I got Jeff Mangum playing a Phil Spector tune.

Tell me about this one.

Peter Laughner

There are a lot of fun songs that these folks have made. First tracks: Syd Barrett - "Here I Go" Roky Erickson - "Two-Headed Dog" Daniel Johnston - "Speeding Motorcycle" (live) Someone else recommended Skip Spence. I know that name, but can't think of the songs. What was the band that he was in? I thought of the Jeff Mangum thing, too. But for the same reasons that you mentioned, I probably won't include him unless I get desperate.

I got: Syd Barrett Daniel Johnston Roky Erickson Folks of that ilk. Who else can we add to the list? I was thinking maybe: Brian Wilson Emitt Rhodes ? But for some reason they just don't seem to fit into the same bucket. They don't have that same mystique. Either too visible (Wilson) or not a rabid enough cult (Rhodes) Who else you got?

I'm not familiar with this one. I'm pretty sure that you are. But I may be mistaken as to the correct title of the song. Is it "Hey, Hey What Can I Do"? EDIT: Yup. It's the latter.