Andy Hall was born in Santa Monica on Halloween evening in 1972. My Ding-a-Ling by Chuck Berry was # 1 on the singles charts that week. His mother was a freelance writer/publicist/public relations manager while his father was an editor at Billboard Magazine. Andy was Baptized at Bel Air Presbyterian Church by the same minister that inaugurated President Reagan in 1981 and 1985.
In 1980, his father dropped out of the record industry and pursued a Master's degree, and thus the Hall family moved to San Diego, Enid Oklahoma, Brockport New York, and finally Las Vegas, Nevada.
Andy's 15 minutes of fame came in 1994 when he was mentioned by L.A. Times Pop Critic, Robert Hilburn at the Open Mike Tent at Lollapalooza 4, but Andy was no Kurt Cobain, so he put down the guitar and stopped rhyming in his poetry. Now after ten years at UNLV, Andy has finally graduated and will attend Northern Arizona University for a Masters degree in English with a Creative Writing emphasis.
Andy is under the influence of Herman Hesse, Allen Ginsburg, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman,Leadbelly, Woody Allen and Frank Zappa.
See poetry samples
Read Andy's Diary from the poets' L.A. trip
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Created 17 June 2000