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rodney roach
  • 59, Male
  • Austin, Tx.
  • United States
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About Me:
Multi-instrumentalist starting w/piano @ 5 1/2, stained glass artist, composer, song writer, carpenter, awareness stimulator/revolutionary, occasional masseuse & very occasionally published poet.
07-11-2008
Having been soundly swept into this strange dimension by the sweet sonic salvos of salubrious savagery that are Strangefire, I now salute you fellow travelers of the spiral. I regularly play piano, organ, and synth keyboards; tenor and alto sax; electric and steel string acoustic guitar; electric bass, fretted and fretless; a wide range of hand percussion; harmonica; and I continually work on making myself happy with my vocals. I occasionally play lap steel, accordion, vibes, congas(my hands don't hold up well now), recorder(usually soprano), clarinet, kit(mainly reggae), and just a little bit of violin, flute, and cornet. I've been performing professionally since the age of 11-12(over 45 yr. now) and music has been a centerpiece and sustainer of my life for as long as I can remember. I started recording with cassette decks and cheap reel to reels in high school and got my first gig engineering in a small multi-media studio in the early mid-70's(I now have my own studio I started in the late 80's, currently taking clients by referral only - though I do too much pro bono work for those I feel are interesting and/or deserving). Along the way I've written a good bit of poetry and finally found my visual art media to be stained glass(both traditional and Tiffany style). I had worked a bit in oils and a fair amount in acrylics, watercolors, and pastels(never quite happy with any of these); but finally found a strong kinship with glass and its inherent kineticism(ever-changing, never quite the same from day to day or season to season). My normal(?) work week is 80-100 hours of which about 40 is practice on various instruments(when my muscles held up I used to get 30-50 hours a week just on piano, can't do that now). I usually spend at least 50 hours a week in the studio, working both on other's projects and my own. I am also in the midst of remodeling and adding a 2nd story to the house and expanding and rebuilding the studio myself.(Though I did call in a little help with the subfloor sheathing and some of the roof sheathing.)
Website:
http://soundclick.com/rodneyroach
How does STRANGE apply to YOU? And WHY?
1st entity contact @ 5, psychic research @ 8, astral projection @ 9, started raja yoga @ 9. I've been a revolutionary for truth & love as long as I can remember(in a culture that gives much lip service to both, but doesn't do a damn thing to actually live them). Music is my voodoo and awareness is my path in a world based on appearances & ego insanity, rather than the reality of unity.
Stuff I Like..(you can use this space for anything...widgets, video, pics)
I like the unbiased quantum fires of unified existence, which exist far beyond the paltry deception of language or images. I like the diversity of manifestation that the icy fire of the unfolding quantum core continually creates. I like the sweet chill of ego-death that unfolds about me when I leap into the unknown & infinite depths of the abyss of creation. I like the continual resurrection that is life lived in the eternal moment of not-time, ever new, beyond all definition.

The next 11 songs are from a collaboration with local quitarist Eddie Checchio. They primarily represent a series of jams in older blues-derived styles with a few more modern touches here & there. Songs 03-11 are from a soon to be released cd.

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Waiting for root canal

Just a quick note to my new friends and valued acquaintances here who may have noticed I&I haven't been here much the last 2 weeks. Have a couple of crazy teeth that seem to be irritated at me & haven't felt much like sitting in the studio in front of the computer lately. I have a app't. with the endodontist Mon. and will soon embark on the battle of the pulp.
Strange times, joyful riddims, & delightful orgasmic surprises to all,
rodney

Posted on August 7, 2008 at 10:03am — 1 Comment

rodney roach

strange musings in the mist

Where indeed do such contrapuntal musings as these stir forth, ebbing & rising in the uncertain tides of genesis. Polished chrome and velvet black, the swirl of birthing possibilities in the balanced spiral lie sweating and strained from the overabundance of ego's swizzlesticks. Wearing the face of Ozymandias, forever shouting the mariner's ancient rime across the howling ice, we are a rippling jewel-faceted wave upon the mirrored interface of the sphere without surface, seeking our reflecti… Continue

Posted on July 17, 2008 at 12:15am — 3 Comments

rodney roach

sometimes ya' just gotta take a break from the culture flow

Cut Off

Cut it off and lay me down
Cut it off and lay me down
Can I lose myself any more
Than you have so
righteously done
Lead us away
Call it a day
nine to five and back again
Soapy dishes done
it's damn near ten
Living my day to day,
broom to broom existence
i wonder
In what sway
Did your leanings turn
to call us gone.
Your towns are not my temples
Your bedrooms not my fun
so go away
go your way
i'll go mine -
See what freedom we shall find

Posted on July 10, 2008 at 5:09am — 3 Comments

rodney roach

Goin' for a ride in the car, car(another oldie)

Psalm

Lo, though they shall speak with
Tongues of concrete,
Their words shall fall as
Asphalt upon the land.
Yea, their deeds shall reek
Of eternal combustion,
Even as the stench of exhaust
Rises hotly from gaping mouths
To swirl in silver clouds
About your ears.

Yea, though I drive through the
Underpass of death,
I shall fear not the muffled
Thunder
For thy power steering and
Disc brakes, they comfort me.

For we dance the desecration
On rubber souls,
Celebrating the progress of
The double ye… Continue

Posted on July 10, 2008 at 4:52am — 1 Comment

rodney roach

Some days ... feathers(older poem about)

In the Light Of Bones

slice-iced gray,
these corrugated winter edges,
even black night casts no such knives as these...
for touch, my only touch,
is flown beyond these rolling edges;
does it startle you now,
to know that it is not black night i fear,
not sweet cold night,
cry that feeds edge-worn souls,
not such fine surcease to fear,
this madness dwells not in night,
for i walk my way without moon, .. without stars
(in the light of bones that cannot bear to be seen
madness weaves itself),
each… Continue

Posted on July 10, 2008 at 4:30am — 3 Comments

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At 9:57pm on November 11, 2009, janetr said…
At 9:16am on October 19, 2009, Tigerlady said…

Hope your day is wonderful and the universe and you feel much better today. Love, Linda
At 10:32pm on October 13, 2009, Tigerlady said…

Hello my sexy love. Sweet Dreams. I hope your night is/was strangely wonderful. I adjourn to dream of you. Jaguar/tigerlin
At 9:25am on September 20, 2009, chris smith said…
Old but classic poem

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow
And soonest our best men with thee do go
Rest of their bones and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppies or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke. Why swellst thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die!
At 1:17pm on July 4, 2009, Strangefire said…
Have a SAFE and STRANGE 4th of July!

At 12:33pm on March 11, 2009, Strangefire said…
Have a StrangeWednesday!!

At 11:05pm on March 5, 2009, Tigerlady said…

At 11:41am on December 29, 2008, Reggaemon said…

At 9:09am on December 17, 2008, Strangefire said…
Have a StrangeHumpDay!!

At 12:24pm on December 8, 2008, Cat said…

Have a
COOL YULE STRANGER
Cat

 
 

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