Heiligenschein
I have to create music. I write and record the music I want to listen to. When I finish an album I give copies away for free. Hopefully someone finds something in it that they think is important too.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Evolution of getting weird.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
It's been a long time since I've written something that I could reproduce live. The last couple albums have been all about the finished recording.
Your musical influences
Nirvana made me want to start writing music. Elliott Smith made me want to write beautiful music. Heavy Metal keeps me honest. People keep me human.
Other influences: open wound orgasms, unrequited love, chemicals, flirting with psychosis, the baffling difficulty of trying to embrace my animal nature in a transcendent way, good whiskey, Russian sacred choral music, being clueless about everything, not sleeping, the subjective hopelessness of "reality". . .
What equipment do you use?
YAMAHA BREAKS YO' FACE! BEST GUITAR! BEST PIANO!
additionally: Ibanez electricity guitar, REMO djembe
Anything else?
Fight Back.
R.I.P. Elliott Smith.
