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"Wagner Without Words... he writes a lot of opera but this one is pretty much all instrumental. I grew up listening a lot of Wagner; my dad had Wagner statues all over the house, so he's a big influence on metal bands in an indirect way."Watch this moment
"Accelerated Living, one of my other favorite Bay Area bands, luckily we've had the opportunity to tour with them a lot. An amazing live band, they got a new guitar player now and a new bass player, and total dueling guitar kind of thing, killer solos, killer drumming, good vocals, good songwriting, catchy riffs."Watch this moment
"He's more of a jazz guy, but when I was studying music, I took a country class and we had to learn a couple pieces from him. His parents were in a traveling circus; they used to put him in between the acts while people were changing and have him up there in a little chair playing his guitar."Watch this moment
"Jean-Michel Jarre is just really different and for what he was, he started at least like back in the 70s, using all these keyboard sounds that were really different for its time. It's just really cool to listen to at night when you're driving through like the woods or something; it's very Cosmic sounding."Watch this moment
"Les Baxter's Space Escapade, big influence on him and Martin Denny, and in that same vein Martin Denny who's kind of like one of the classic Exotica Lounge guys."Watch this moment
"Martin Denny, who's kind of like one of the classic Exotica lounge guys, all those old '50s and '60s composers... big influence on Black Cobra, believe it or not."Watch this moment
"Harvey Milk's first record, but the band Harvey Milk, which is probably one of my favorite bands like ever, super heavy band but not in a metal... this is the first album like unreleased so I guess now it's released."Watch this moment
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