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ARTIST: Buellton/John Nygren
SONG: Painting the Cave
BIRTHDATE: 04/21/1972
HOMETOWN: Orange, CA
CURRENT LOCATION: Santa Barbara, CA
AMBITIONS: To gig our new record Silent Partner as much as possible and then make another album without 10 years going by.
TURN-OFFS: Cruise Ships
TURN-ONS: People
DREAM GIG: Cruise Ships
FAVORITE LYRIC: “I don’t believe in the best.” Grant Lee Buffalo
CRAZIEST PERSON I KNOW: Matthew P. Eames.
SONG I WISH I WROTE: Skyway by The Replacements/Paul Westerberg
5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: David Chapelle, Howe Gelb, Donna Tart, Robert Duval and Kristen Wiig.
MY FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE: Nirvana opening for Dinosaur Jr. at the Paladium in 1991
I WROTE THIS SONG: I wrote this song during a year I was living in a small community above Santa Barbara called Painted Cave. I had previously been renting a room in a house with 7 other dudes (The Mothership) and intentionally left to go hole up by myself and spend more time writing. This was one of only a couple songs that came out of this period and lyrically encapsulates what I came to during that time. Shared hopes and dreams are typically greater than individual ones.
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