Missing Lincoln
by songwriting/producing duo is hook-bristled, eclectic, mainly-guitar pop, from lovey-dovey to nasty-loudy. Like Yes embellishing Everclear songs. is and .
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Frazier and Gott began working together in the late 80's with a touring metal cover band. However their musical preferences soon found this particular act stifling to their creativity and set off on their own to find their niche in this wacky world of music. The first result of their labor is a timeless and genre-free set of songs and a renewed sense of musical ideals found on 'Lid' by Missing Lincoln.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Missing Lincoln is a songwriting/producing duo. Kenny Gott, master songwriter, has chosen to spend his career off of the stage, while Frazier pursues the live-music bug with full-throttle intensity by performing with several Springfield MO. area groups including Snapperhead, Uncalled 4, Fair Warning (Roth era Van Halen tribute band), Billion Dollar Babies (Alice Cooper tribute band) and is currently forming a touring band to support Missing Lincoln.
Your musical influences
Cheap Trick, Prince, Led Zeppelin, Yes, The Cure, U2, Radiohead, NIN, XTC, David Bowie, Kings X, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Fountains of Wayne, Big Wreck, Van Halen, Filter, Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Alice Cooper, KISS, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, TOOL, The Cars, Extreme, Abba, Rufus and Chaka Kahn, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Chicago, Sweet, Elton John... can I stop now?
What equipment do you use?
Whatever's handy.
Anything else?
While we feel that musicians/entertainers are obligated primarily to just shut up and do their job, which is to entertain, there is the omnipresent notion of responsibility (largerly perpetuated by the media and the artist's own press agents) they we all have to either be a good or bad impression on the youth of the world, or to represent some sort of political or social theme. Culpability of an artist of any kind for the evils of the world is a ludicrous concept. And on the same token, Rock and Roll is not going to change the world. In other words it's just meant to be fun... and every now and then there might be a message... just don't look too hard for it.
