Slim Chance Recordings

When you ask me for the one song or album that most influenced me and my music, I still keep coming back to Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein”.

Besides the fact that this song was absolutely revolutionary way back in the early 70s to combine funk, rock and electronic music, that song still represents very much the kind of music I am making today.

Edgar Winter took his Moog synthesizer and made it sing, wail and dance at a time where nobody even understood how to use the thing for anything but to ‘make noises’. I can’t really claim to be the first to combine soul and funk with electronics (as in today’s house music), Edgar Winter was the one who did it and that song rocks to this day.

People have been asking me about musical influences all the time and I am never quite able to get an answer while other musicians wish to sound just like U2 or sing just like Luther Vandross. My influences come from all over but I can truly say, “Edgar Winter’s Frankenstein got the ball rolling for me..”

If you don’t know the song, check it out on iTunes or at your favorite internet music site. It still rocks!