Mike B.
Sales Associate
Expertise: Psychedelic/Art/Prog Pop & Rock, Cult Films & Soundtracks
Music and Movies are a huge part of my life. I spent most of the 80's working music retail (anybody remember the old Grapevine/Camelot on Independence?) and I spent the 90's recording and performing with my band, The Ravelers. Lately, I've spent most of my free time composing and recording music influenced by my favorite soundtrack composers - mostly spaghetti western, horror and blaxploitation styled stuff. Listen if you dare at myspace.com/manfromravcon.
Other reasons to love life include: enjoying music, movies, good TV, great meals and nature with my wonderful wife of 23 years, Peggy - Thursday night gaming sessions with my friend Frank - reading before bedtime - and all things BBQ.
It feels like coming home again joining the Manifest Crew. It's my favorite store in town, and I get paid to hang out. Wow!
Fave Five Albums By Decade:
00's
Sea Change - Beck
It Still Moves - My Morning Jacket
After Everything Now This - The Church
Grave Disorder - The Damned
At War With The Mystics - Flaming Lips
90's
Everything's Alright Forever - The Boo Radleys
Odelay - Beck
Lateness Of The Hour - Eric Matthews
In It For The Money - Supergrass
Secret Story - Pat Metheny
80's
Heyday - The Church
Black Album - The Damned
Mummer - XTC
"Melt" - Peter Gabriel
Emergency Third Rail Power Trip - The Rain Parade
70's
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Wind And Wuthering - Genesis
Crisis? What Crisis? - Supertramp
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Hamburger Concerto - Focus
60's
The White Album - The Beatles
In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
Forever Changes - Love
Arthur - The Kinks
The Notorious Byrd Brothers - The Byrds
Top 10 CD's
10. “Modern Guilt” - Beck
9. “Meet Glen Campbell” - Glen Campbell
8. “Pacific Ocean Blue” - Dennis Wilson
7. “Gift of Screws” - Lindsey Buckingham
6. “Electric Arguments” - The Fireman
5. “Seeing Sounds” - N*E*R*D
4. “If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times” - The Iguanas
3. “In The Future” - Black Mountain
2. “Dear Science” - TV On The Radio
1. “So, Who’s Paranoid?” - The Damned
Fave 10 Movies:
Eraserhead
Breaking Away
Phantasm
Local Hero
Once Upon A Time In The West
Suspiria
Evil Dead
Head
Kill Baby Kill
Ed Wood
Fave 10 Live Shows:
The Damned - "Grave Disorder" tour
Genesis - "ABACAB" tour
Fishbone - "Truth and Soul" tour
King Crimson - "Thrak" tour
The Zombies - Charlotte 2004
AC/DC - "Highway To Hell" tour
The Tubes - "Love Bomb" tour
The Rain Parade - "Crashing Dream" tour
Supergrass - "Road to Roen" tour
The Cramps - "Stay Sick" tour