Slam Buckra...
singer/songwriter/poet...
painter/performance artist... madman/mystic/guitar slinger... mountain-man...semi-recluse...
born in San Francisco...first learned to adore music and strum a tennis racket in the suburbs of Chicago...worked out (and developed) the kinks at the foot of Grouse Mountain in British Columbia...on Stretch Island in the Puget Sound...in La Jolla Shores California...
in the press, his music, songwriting, guitar playing, singing and stage act have been compared to that of John Fogerty, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Van Dyke Parks, John Lee Hooker, Captain Beefheart, Mose Allison, G. Love, Robben Ford, Dean Martin, The Beatles, Primus, Michael Bloomfield, 10cc, Frank Zappa, Sun Ra, Z.Z. Top, Albert King, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Mississippi Fred McDowell among others...
...hopelessly influenced by the works, words and minds of Salvador Dali, Ozzie Nelson, Muhammad Ali, John Lennon, Joan Miro, Jerry Lewis, Stephen Crane, William F. Buckley, Frank Sinatra, Francis Bacon, Paul McCartney, Albert King, Patrick J. Buchanan, Albert Brooks, Wilt Chamberlain, Brian Wilson, Don Van Vliet, Marc Chagall, Bob Dylan, John McLaughlin, Ernie Kovacs, John Lee Hooker, Groucho Marx, Little Richard, Dorthea Tanning, Roland Kirk, Steve Allen, Jerry West, Miles Davis, W.C. Fields, Johnny Winter...
spiritual atheist, fascist libertarian, gregarious loner...
now hidden away in the foothills of the southern tip of the Cascade Mountain Range...4,444 feet above sea level...over 2,666 club shows and concerts from Seattle Washington to Ensenada Mexico....from Austin Texas to San Francisco California....
has traded guitar licks on stage with blues legends Albert King and Albert Collins...traded blows on stage with Mojo Nixon...shared the bill with Willie Nelson, Mose Allison, Eric Johnson, The Violent Femmes, The Greyboy Allstars, Blue Oyster Cult, R.E.M., Brian Setzer among others...often compared to Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa...Crispin Glover and Lenny Bruce...Johnny Winter and John Scofield...
despised...revered...86'd...heralded...
jailed...more than likely alive n' limber...on stage...in a dark n' stinky nightclub near you!
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