Stiff Richards

"Stiff Richards Rock Hard"

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    members

    Paul Jackson, Eric Din, Bennie Wood, Tuan Titlestad

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    state of mind

    hard

    vices

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    favorite artists

    Count Slowly, Liberace

    favorite movies

    Plan 9 From Outer Space, Spinal Tap

    favorite books

    What.. is.. Book?
    GENRES: pop, rock, other, not bigfoot
    LOCATION: Berkeley CA, US
    WEBSITE: http://stiffrichards.com
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    Posted 18 Songs     
    This Fog (It's Gonna Lift)
    blues, rock, pop
    This always was one of my favorite Stiffies tunes. We recorded it days after Paul wrote the words so it's a fresh and straightforward take....
    4:20 @ 7 Pools
    pop, reggae/ska
    One of the stonier instrumental dub bits we did in Stiff Richards. There's a creek up in a park in the Berkeley Hills where many...
    Yolanda
    pop, urban/R&B, rock
    Growing up in Berkeley, California and going to public schools in the 1970's and 80's meant you had a very multi-cultural experience. I remember learning...
    You Don't Know Anything
    rock, punk rock, punk rock, post modern angst rock
    Oh the anger. Oh the angst. Oh the big distorted guitars. Short and furious.
    Abby
    pop, rock, emo, goth, post punk
    Glam-esque brat rock inna reverse goth heap of undressed inhibitions! Or something. I just love the line "Mommy's got a date with the shrink tonight,...
    Hate Parade
    rock
    Another track from the session we did with Michael Urbano on drums, Michael Rosen and Matthew King Kaufman producing, live in the studio. Paul Jackson...
    Julian's Jealous
    pop, rock, other
    My girlfriend at the time was being courted by a much more established older man right in front of my nose. It was my strongest...
    Rude Boy
    rock, reggae/ska
    Here's an amped up cover we did of The Uptones party anthem. More punk than ska, this version is all adrenaline and bounce. Tracking it...
    Baggagemaster
    rock, reggae/ska, other
    I read a passage once in a book by John Cage called "M" in which he quotes a friend whose luggage had been lost at...
    Laws And Sausage
    rock, reggae/ska, pop, ska, dub, punky ska
    Legend has it that Winston Churchill once said "Those who like laws and sausage should never watch either being made." ..or words to that effect....
     
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    Fell In And Out Of Art
    rock
    I was experimenting with different possibilities of perception. I was hanging around this girl Artemis from Latvia; she was a total trip. Maybe it was...
    Markie Mark
    pop, rock
    This is a cover of a song originally performed by a band from Arcata, CA called Durango 95. They opened for us somewhere up in...
    Josh is a J.E.R.K.
    pop, rock
    Apologies to the Joshes of the world, but you know, you guys have a poor batting average, almost as bad as guys named Biff. Always...
    Not From Here
    reggae/ska, rock, pop
    This is one of our all time greatest collaborations. The song really speaks to me; the lyrics are profound and yet very approachable, pertinent, a...
    Halibut
    pop, rock, reggae/ska
    Does anybody remember "In Search of" with Leonard Nimoy as the host? I was kicking back in a local found paradise, chilling my head in...
    Sound Pressure
    pop, reggae/ska
    This song was a long time set closer for the live show; the sing along chrous tends stick in for head, just nutty, nutty, nutty....
    Bested By Pelicans
    pop, reggae/ska, pre-historic avian dub
    It was a dark and cloudy afternoon, the classic urban seaside moment: human, feeling sorry for himself, wanting, searching, finds the ultimate tragedy-comedy, the sweetness...
    Alpha Doggie
    rock
    I was oberserving a small pack of dogs enjoying their own culture at a garden party. One dog seem to set the agenda for the...