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BIOGRAPHY
ANCIENT HISTORY 
( PART 2 )

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          INFLUENTIAL SOURCES
MICK TERRY's  eclectic musical influences range
from Bach & Tchaikovsky to Dvorák & Grieg,
from The Mamas & Papas, The Lovin' Spoonful & The Bee Gees
through Buffalo Springfield, Traffic
& The Band, Pink Floyd & Steely Dan
to Benmont Tench, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers,
from Brian Wilson, Billy Joel & Don Henley
to Jimmie Haskell, Dave Grusin & Bob James,
& (on the more serious side) Spinal Tap.
More current favorites include Foo Fighters, Green Day,
Incubus, Linkin Park, Third Eye Blind & Weezer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah ... The Beatles weren't all that bad, either.

The music of  MICK TERRY  is highly lyrical,
with catchy hooks & gripping melodies,
simple in form, yet contrapuntally intricate,
rhythmically moving & harmonically engaging.

With the general direction toward pop-rock,
his melodies & arrangements span a spectrum of emotions
& genres, with an underlying sense of beauty, dignity & caring,
occasionally even allowing his humor to slip through.
Sometimes beautiful, sometimes rough:  rich feelings
are brought to the heart, colorful pictures to the mind.

His lyrics lean toward the quasi-intelligent side, in a visually
descriptive & emotional style. Sprinkled with ample flavorings
of wit, irony & a healthy dosage of story-telling,
they at times end with a Rod Serling-flavored twist.
Often, his lyrics deal with serious topics
& themes of spiritual & social concern.

MICK  is currently working in the studio with
Brutal2ThEar

          LIVE PERFORMANCE
MICK TERRY  has been performing solo  LIVE  around L.A.
in cafés, coffee houses, nightclubs, theaters, poetry readings,
open mics, bars, dreary hallways, grimy restrooms, ...
Although not considering himself a poet, evidently others do.
He has been asked to be the  Featured Poet  on  2-3-12
at the well-repected Rapp Saloon  (Santa Monica, CA)  
as he has been at the highly venerated
Beyond Baroque  (Venice, CA)  & at  Barnes & Noble  (Encino, CA).
He also has been featured twice at Songwriter Sanctum (StaMonica)
Usually, he reads his lyrics dramatically.
            YouTube VIDEOS  of  Mick Terry

However, at some of his performances, MICK
may have taken on either of two alter egos (so far).

Blond Chitlin' Goldstein
is a scrawny, scroungy, long-haired blues singer
beltin' da delta blues, wailin' away on harmonica
& tenor ukulele on such favorites as  Never Took Viagra,
Hard Times in Malibu Blues,  The Last Time I Saw Elvis,
Jew Christmas,  The Chanukah Song,  This Isn't Twilight
&  Methane.
            YouTube VIDEOS  of  Blond Chitlin' Goldstein

Claiming to represent heavily oppressed people of the world
by professing to be 1/3 Jewish, 1/3 Blackish & 1/3 Blondish,
he also claims to be 1/3 illegitimate offspring of  MICK TERRY.
He has never made claims of being good at math or geneology.
He has been called  "the world's least-known tone-deaf blues singer".


Dr. DeCrepid
is a diabolical de-composer of disastrous inconsequence,
haunting local establishments around Halloween since 1997.
He has destroyed the souls & ears of many unfortunate beings
by what has conservatively been described in the media as
"the unwelcome sounds of violent spasmodic wretching"
with his performances of  Howl RU on Horrorween?,
Horror Stories,  Where Do Vampires Go on Christmas?
and  Creepy Crawlies.
           YouTube VIDEOS  of  Dr. DeCrepid

Increasingly, suspicions had arisen that  MICK TERRY 
had a much darker side.  He had seemed to disappear
at night around Halloween for several hours at a time.
During those periods, reports had proliferated
of a nefarious ghoul lurking around Los Angeles.

The full extent of the danger to the public
has yet to be determined.  Symptoms of victims
coming near this loathsome apparition
range from excruciatingly painful eardrums
to extreme & violent nausea.
Besides the horrendous appearance
& the pungent nose-wrinkling stench,
what sends these helpless innocents reeling
could be the dissonant unearthly utterances
belching forth from the bowels of the creature's monster KORG.

Suburban legends & folklore had spread about this phenomenon
& it had become known around L.A. as  Dr. DeCrepid,
the despicable de-composer of distaste,
the diabolical director of disection,
the dreadful denizen of disaster horrorifying Halloween.

( Although the loathsome creature had been totally unheard of
prior to  MICK TERRY's  relocation to the Los Angeles area,
& although never seen in the same place at the same time,
& despite some claims that there is a striking resemblance,
MICK TERRY  has pleaded the 5th Amendment in this matter. )

          AWARD-WINNING
Not only have his scores, arrangements, melodies & lyrics
won awards, but so has this website,  MickTerry.com.
Earning over 40 Web awards, it is top-ranked
( often in the  Top 3 )  by most major Search Engines.
              ( search:  funny song writer, ecological song lyrics, Porsche song lyrics,
                           genocide song lyrics, witty songwriter + many others )

          BITCHY & ORNERY
Music & lyrics are not the only media of creativity for
MICK TERRY.  In 1991, he designed & built a highly detailed
scale model train diorama.   Since then, 2 fictitious stories
& 27 of his photos of  The BICCI & ONRI RailRoad
have been published in national publications & catalogs.

The detail & photography are so realistic that
professional photographers,
modelers & railroad personnel,
as well as most lay people,
have thought the pictures
were of full-scale reality,
not models less than 2 inches high.

The diorama has spent most of its existence on
public display in Maryland & California in museums,
libraries, hobby stores and businesses.

[ Note :   Prior to the move from Maryland to California in 1997,
MICK TERRY  was known professionally as
MICHAEL STEVEN TERRY  or
MICHAEL C. TERRY
& to friends & acquaintences as  MIKE TERRY ]

MICK TERRY  is on  LinkedIn  &  Care2,
but not on  Faceblock,  MySpam  or  Twatter.
That's another musician or 2 with the same name in England or US.
Topped Out on Twitter

MICK TERRY 's
purpose in life
is to create & produce
music, lyrics & humor
that empower, satisfy
& heal millions of people.

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[ Train photos - Bicci & Onri RailRoad ]
[ Treble clefs, Speaker - Music Graphics Galore ]
[ Demon head - © 1996 Mike Strick - Creation Zone ]
[ Photos: Dr.DeCrepid, MT- Tammy Abbott, Blond Chitlin' Goldstein- Aeon Oliver-Terry ]

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