singingbicycle

acoustic avant-garde blues experimental folk guitar instrumental jazz psychedelic rock singer-songwriter

singingbicycle's top albums (overall)
1. Philharmonia Hungarica - Haydn: The Complete Symphonies (426) 2. Davy Graham - Large As Life and Twice As Natural (278) 3. Anne Briggs - A Collection (266) 4. Jorma Kaukonen - Quah (260) 5. Sibylle Baier - Colour Green (214) 6. Bridget St John - Ask Me No Questions (205) 7. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (197) 8. Davy Graham - Hat (196) 9. Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best (192) 10. Ruthann Friedman - Hurried Life: Lost Recordings 1965-1971 (191) 11. Eclection - Eclection (189) 12. Frank Quinn - If You Are Irish (189) 13. June Madrona - The Winged Life (183) 14. Artur Schnabel - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (174) 15. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (169) 16. Various Artists - Imaginational Anthem Volume Three (169) 17. Josephine Foster - Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You (168) 18. Fairport Convention - Fairport Convention (167) 19. Kaleidoscope - Beacon From Mars + Other Psychedelic Side Trips (161) 20. Bridget St John - Songs for the Gentle Man (161)








I have an Internet radio show on Radio23.org as 360 Sound Radio Sunday nights at 11 pm until 4 am on Monday morning (all times are PDT). Give it a listen if you get a chance.

I am also an optimist. You can tell by the quotes I offer.--RW

Somebody has to do something, and it's incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.--Jerry Garcia

There ought to be behind the door of every happy, contented man someone standing with a hammer continually reminding him with a tap that there are unhappy people; that however happy he may be, life will show him her laws sooner or later, trouble will come for him--disease, poverty, losses, and no one will see or hear, just as now he sees nor hear others.--Chekhov

I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago. Divorced myself emotionally. I think the human race has squandered its promise. I think people in America sold out very cheaply for sneakers and cheeseburgers. And I don't think it's fixable.--George Carlin

Every now and then I am impressed with the thinking of the non-Indian. I was in Cleveland last year and got to talking with a non-Indian about American history. He said that he was really sorry about what happened to Indians, but that there was good reason for it. The continent had to be developed and he felt that Indians had stood in the way, and thus had to be removed. "After all," he remarked,"what did you do with the land when you had it?" I didn't understand him until later when I discovered that the Cuyahoga River running through Cleveland is inflammable. So many combustible pollutants are dumped into the river that the inhabitants have to take special precautions during the summer to avoid setting it on fire. After reviewing the argument of my non-Indian friend I decided he was probably correct. Whites had made better use of the land. How many Indians could have thought of creating an inflammable river?--Vine Deloria, Jr. (1969)

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor and intensity where all else was falling into ordered and symmetrical decay. And the uneasy part of it was that some horrid unwholesome power seemed to be distilled from their spite and their cursing. --Saki, "The Peace of Mowsle Barton" (sounds a wee bit like "Shut Up, Little Man", don't it?)

I feel that this do-or-die, my-country-right-or-wrong kind of patriotism is not merely out of place in a nuclear armed world, it is criminal egotism on a monstrous scale. The world won't be safe until people in all countries recognize it for what it is and, instead of cheering the leader who talks that way, impeach him.--Dr. Benjamin Spock

Either man is obsolete or war is.--R. Buckminster Fuller

Every society gets the criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.--Robert F. Kennedy

We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods.--also RFK

expression is the need of my soul
i was once a vers libre bard
but i died and my soul went into the body of a cockroach
it has given me a new outlook upon life
i see things from the under side now--don marquis, "the annotated archy and mehitabel"

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I suppose I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.--Edith Sitwell, 1963

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves, in order to be like other people.--Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.--Bertolt Brecht