Travis Dickerson Recording Studios Forum

what inspires you the most to become who you are.

What or who?

Let say who.

Groucho Marks
Einstein
Peter Paul Reubens  
John Huston
Steven Jay Gould
Claude Rains
John Lennon
Shakespeare
Frank Lloyd Wright
Herodotus
Matisse  
Beethoven
Charles Darwin
Alfred Hitchcock
René Descartes

To name a few. Who inspires you, or anyone else who cares to participate?

To name a few of mine

The Moon
The Stars
Richard Wagner
Harpo Marx
Darth Vader
Buckethead
Beethoven
Tiny Tim
John Paul Jones
Paul Shaffer
Zeppo Marx
Travis Dickerson
Snakefinger
Rob Zombie
John 5
Death Cube K
Dad
Mom
Thomas Rahn
Chris Moss
Oscar Wilde
Stephen King
Chic Disc Rico
God
The Devil
Bob

to name a few, I\'ve missed alot , but I wanted to particapate
 

Chris

my inspirations

God
Mom
Grandma
Myself
Bruce Lee
Buckethead
Rocky Balboa
Bill Laswell
Travis Dickerson
Power Rangers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Audio Land
Raul Julia
Viggo Mortensen
Psychology
Cobra Strike
Martial Arts
Cemeteries
Dusk
Stellar Planets
Aliens
Monsters
Praxis
Disabled People
Kratos
Wolverine
Art
obsticles
i\'m inspired by the above.

Zappa
Beefheart
Justin Broadrick
David Cronenberg
Black Sabbath
Swans
William S.Burroughs
Charles Bukowski
Bucket
Travis
Laswell
Sonny Sharrock
P-Funk
Adrian Sherwood
Kool Keith
Ministry/Revolting Cocks
Iron Maiden
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Hunter S Thompson
Paul Bowles
Asian cinema
Philip K Dick
Cult Flicks and Trash pics of all variety
Howard Stern
ee cummings
Roger Zelazny
Carl Hiaasen
Vernon Reid
Terry Bozzio
HP Lovecraft
Motorhead/Hawkwind
Can
Throbbing gristle
Cabaret Voltaire
Crass
Discharge
Iggy Pop
old David Bowie
Tom Waits
and all opposition to the evilarchy of Dubya....

to name a very few...

you guys are a tough act to follow - you\'ve all listed many of the ones that first popped into my own mind... including doomride\'s lovely closing entry

Quoteand all opposition to the evilarchy of Dubya....

so i will go down the other fork in the road and choose what...

love
joy
art
music
rain on a tin roof
the raw beauty in the damaged
random memories of my father
what might have been
what might be
sex
mist at the bottom of a hill
a pin prick
ballet
football (soccor to y\'all)
hockey
space flight
books beyond measure
intellect and the depth in another\'s eyes

Frank Zappa
Einsturzende Neubauten
Killing joke
Living colour
Buckethead
Scientist
Pharoah Sanders
Zakk Wylde
ZZ top
Nile
Alice cooper (from Easy action to Welcome to my nightmare)
Dennis Brown
Tricky (the first 3 albums)
Miles Davis
The nekromantix
Messiaen
Pierre Henry
Lab°
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Raghunath Manet
Hawkwind
Manu le malin
Pierre Boulez
Secret chiefs 3
etc, etc....

The sound of my instruments, the books or articles I read, the movies I watch, the dreams I have, art in general, life in general.

Ursula Leguin
Vincent Van Gogh
JRR Tolkien
Pythagoras
Ravi Shankar
Francis of Assisi
Frank Herbert
Muhammad Ali
William Blake
Arundhati Roy
John Dowland
Radhika Rajiv
Li Lian Jie
Siddharta Gautama

Thanatopsis

Who:
musicians
writers
artists
scientists
friends
family
strangers

What:
tricks of light & shadow
stars (the ones in the sky)
birds
smiles
hugs
pizza
rain
sex
sounds
smells
traffic
clouds