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Vote:   | After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions of which Breton provides an abundance of source. |
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Vote: | Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on. |
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Vote: | Between tours I've just been enjoying being home, listening to the records I bought six months ago and writing some music. |
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Vote: | Bungle is definitely a priority right now. |
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Vote: | But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance. |
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Vote: | Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality. |
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Vote: | Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much. |
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Vote: | Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time. |
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Vote: | I do intend to tour, write and record again with trio-convulsant. |
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Vote: | I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar. |
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Vote: | I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. |
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Vote: | I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation. |
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Vote: | I have accidentally double-booked myself on occasion. That's the worst. |
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Vote: | I have no inflated ideas about success anyway. |
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Vote: | I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything. |
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Vote: | I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition. |
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Vote: | I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go. |
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Vote: | I need to broaden my horizons. |
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Vote: | I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks. |
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Vote: | I rely on the hope that there are people in the audience that are actually listening. |
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Vote: | I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials. |
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Vote: | I take all of my music seriously and personally. |
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Vote: | I think a lot of musicians, like Graham, Goldberg or John Schott, just to name a fraction, don't get the recognition they deserve. |
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Vote: | I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism. |
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Vote: | I was also commissioned to write a solo bass piece for Jon Deak, who will premiere it, along with a piece by Eyvind Kang, at Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center on February 17. |
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Vote: | I would never be able to choose one project over another because it is the balance, the variation, the change that is important to me. |
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Vote: | I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way. |
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Vote: | I'm just starting to write some stuff for another recording, which I'd like to do sometime in the first half of the year. |
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Vote: | I'm sure every musician at one time or another has fantasised about quitting music. |
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Vote: | I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to. |
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Vote: | I've played recently with old cohorts from the bay area including Jenny Scheinman and Jessica Jones, and I've done some recording for Zorn. |
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Vote: | If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated. |
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Vote: | If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure. |
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Vote: | In fact, I try to embrace the music, personality, style, phrasing of other's depending on who I'm playing with. I try to reflect their music. |
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Vote: | In general the audience reaction to Fantomas has been positive, that is, when they're not yelling at us between songs... or during songs for that matter. |
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Vote: | In studying the Surrealists and their peers, I continue to reaffirm my own ideas about art, and I think a lot of their reactions to their surroundings, and the catalysts for them are relevant today. |
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Vote: | It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open. |
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Vote: | It's really hard not to judge an audience on a few morons overwhelming behavior. |
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Vote: | It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture. |
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Vote: | Like I said, I want to continue writing for my trio, and I'd like to release some chamber music one of these days. |
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Vote: | Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas. |
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Vote: | Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication. |
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Vote: | Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia. |
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Vote: | NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos. |
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Vote: | Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. |
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Vote: | Subconsciously, as I have discovered, I have always been attracted to this weird little creature that is a total loner, no one cares about. The Platypus is a misfit. |
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Vote: | The act of bossing someone else around is always much more pleasurable than being the recipient- unless you're into the whole domination thing. |
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Vote: | The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label. |
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Vote: | The trio has only played live once! Sometime after the Bungle tour I would like to set up a tour of my own. |
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Vote: | There has always been a small core of people in this world who migrate to the outside, or to the fringe. I'm painfully aware that I am one of those people and that I have to surround myself with those people if I'm interested in any sort of social interaction, not to mention, education. |
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Vote: | There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. |
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Vote: | Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however. |
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Vote: | Well, musicians everywhere make up a small part of the population, so incest is to be expected. |