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[GReedDiamond]

78. I have no argument with what you say here...

...yes, we are all influenced by many others' work. In our music over the last 30+ years, the styles may range, such as blues, country, folk, punk, psychedelic, experimental "noise" music, etc...and if you listen to our current tunes (at the Green Sparkle Frog link below), you'll hear, depending on the song, a Beatles influence, a little early period Alice Cooper, a little REM, maybe some Radiohead...ya never know til you hear it.

We started back in the early days of the Los Angeles punk scene, moved on to what we called "psychedelic punk" in the early to mid 80s, went through a period of industrial meets goth with a great female singer named Cecilia Plus Minus (now sadly deceased), straight on from there to melodic pop-punk with two different female singers (in one of those bands, we were signed to a Columbia Records development deal by Sandy Pearlman - manager/producer of Blue Oyster Cult and others - but the deal fell through when the singer could not satisfactorily complete her vocal tracks on the demo!), back to punk and hard rock with male lead vocals again, and now onto a sound which melds some rock-edged Americana with pedal steel guitar and the occasional ukelele or banjo, and of course, my drums and percussion.

So, yeah, we have a lot of influences. But our music sounds pretty much like ours, regardless, and has a fairly original overall sound, IMO (and so I've been told).

And, as I think I have already mentioned in previous posts, I have no problem with giving away free mp3 downloads, CDs, or whatever...I just don't want others who downloaded our material, or acquired a CD, to then copy and distribute the tunes to their friends, or to anybody else, by making them available on file sharing sites or whatever. I don't think that's an unreasonable position to take.

Don't fear JD, you have my permission to download our stuff if ever you wanted to...in fact, I'd be more than happy to send you a copy of the next CD when its out, I think sometime in July, if you'd like. Just lemme know. In fact, unless I was overrun with requests, I'd likely be happy to hook up my fellow DUers with the CD if anyone is interested, just PM me.