PatdaHat

General

Music, songwriting, recording, ‘live’ performance. 🎭 Audio engineering, acoustics, sound reinforcement.

Music

I’ll listen to most anything, from Classical to Avante Gard, Pop to Country, Soul and R&B, Blues, Jazz, Classic and Progressive Rock and even some Headbangers. I can appreciate Rap if it’s not monotonous, glorifying a “Gansta” lifestyle, pimps, hookers, strippers, etc. I’m not a “prude”, far from it! I just believe that talent and lyric writing should not be based on how many times you can drop the F💣 in one sentence. Know what I mean? 🤔 K-den. 😤

Movies

The Big Lebowski, King of Hearts, The Fisher King, Philadelphia, Standing In The Shadows of Motown, The Wrecking Crew, Bohemian Rhapsody, Gran Torino, Life of Brian (Monty Python) Delirious (Eddie Murphy) Stir Crazy, Harlem Nights, music-related interviews and documentaries on YouTube, Amazon, etc.

Television

I only stream ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ on YouTube. TV, in general, bores the 💩 out of me!

Books

Anything Tom Robbins: Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, Half-Asleep In Frog Pajamas, Tibetan Peach Pie. Anything Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing In America, In Watermelon Sugar, The Abortion, Rommel Drives Deep Into Egypt, The Hawkline Monster. Tolkien, Philip Levine, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Shel Silverstein, Galway Kinnell. The Tao of Physics

Heroes

John Lennon, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Bob Dylan, John Prine, John Fogerty, Jackson Browne, Dan Fogelberg, The Bear (my dad - r.i.p.) Tom Petty, Ringo Starr, Delaney Bramlett, Johnny Winter, Paul Kelly, Delbert McClinton, Norton Buffalo, Charlie McCoy, Toots Thielmans, Bobby Bare, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Ghandi, Charlie Daniels, Joel “Taz” DiGregorio, Greg and Duane Allman, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Townes Van Zandt, John Hiatt, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Dolly Parton, Janis Joplin, Janis Ian, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Tracy Nelson, Tony Carey, Randy Sharp, Emmylou Harris, Mary Gauthier, Rory Gallagher, Todd Rundgren, Jeff Beck, Lowell George.