User:Kohoutek1138

About me
I am a 41-year-old male music enthusiast from the UK who has worked professionally as a musician for over 20 years. I've also written music reviews and articles for a number of well known publications and online music sites. My user name is derived from the title of one of my all-time favourite songs, "Kohoutek" by R.E.M., which is named after Comet Kohoutek. The song isn't really about the comet itself but instead, deals with the subject of lost love and features the line "Like Kohoutek, you were gone", referring to the fact that Comet Kohoutek won't be seen in our skies again for another 75,000 years. The 1138 part of my user name comes from a reoccurring number that appears throughout the Star Wars films and is a subtle reference to my love of the Star Wars saga.

My favourite bands and artists are beat, folk rock and psychedelic acts from the 1960s, including the Beatles, the Byrds, Bob Dylan, Donovan, the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, the Left Banke, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jefferson Airplane, and Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd. I'm also into indie and alternative rock from the 1990s up to the present day. However, these popular music genres and artists that I've mentioned only cover the smallest fraction of the types of music I'm interested in overall. My tastes are pretty broad and encompass everything from country blues and New Wave music to big beat and Indian classical music...and all points inbetween.

My motivation for editing Wikipedia is that I feel that music is extremely important and as such, articles relating to styles of music, albums, singles, record labels and individual artists or bands should be impeccably maintained and display the utmost accuracy. I hope to do my bit to ensure that articles are free from any factual inaccuracies, presented in an unbiased, encyclopedic fashion, and feature multiple inline citations.

Improve

 * Just Like a Woman
 * Country Weather - adding refs mostly
 * Revolver (UK band)
 * The Great Society (band) - add refs.
 * Chapterhouse - lot of attendant articles need attention (discography has multiple articles for the same release).
 * Ride (band) - and attendant album articles.
 * Mark Gardener
 * Cowgirl in the Sand
 * Gram Parsons - add refs/remove erroneous material.
 * Clarence White
 * Roger McGuinn
 * David Crosby
 * Chris Hillman
 * Gene Clark
 * Michael Clarke
 * Skip Battin
 * John Guerin
 * Jimmi Seiter
 * Monterey Pop Festival
 * Monterey Pop Festival (Set List)
 * Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
 * Sounds of Silence (album)
 * Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
 * The Graduate (soundtrack)
 * Bookends
 * Bridge over Troubled Water
 * Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits
 * The Left Banke
 * Walk Away Renée
 * Pretty Ballerina
 * Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina
 * The Left Banke Too
 * Raga rock
 * The Beach Boys discography
 * Roger McGuinn
 * Shang-Chi (adding refs only)
 * Greatest Hits (The Association album)
 * Get Together (Chet Powers song)
 * Ciro's
 * RAF Bovingdon
 * Dungeons & Dragons (TV series) - copyedit
 * List of Dungeons & Dragons episodes - episode synopses may be from DVD box set/posible copyright violation.
 * Oz (comics) - reads like an advert, add citations/infobox etc
 * Stephen Duffy
 * The Lilac Time
 * Kiss Me (Tin Tin song) - should be moved back to Kiss Me (Stephen Duffy song), since Duffy is most closely associated with the hit version of the song & is therefore most recognisable artist as per WP:TITLE.
 * Dear Mr. Fantasy - add info about ghostly inspiration.
 * Captain (band) - needs inline refs (some attendant articles need deleting - Captain discography, Mario Athanasiou, Frontline (song) and possibly the Rik Flynn and Clare Szembek redirects too)
 * Jaiva (Township Jive)

Create articles for

 * Albums released in Quadraphonic Sound (Category)
 * Byrd Parts
 * Byrd Parts 2
 * The Monterey International Pop Festival: June 16–17–18, 1967
 * These Beautiful Ghosts
 * Pretty Boy Floyd (song)
 * Jim Dickson (manager) or maybe Jim Dickson (record producer)
 * Don't You Write Her Off
 * Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man

Articles I've created or resurrected

 * Created
 * Magdalen Sky
 * Falling Out into the Night
 * Live May 11, 1968
 * Live at the Monterey Festival
 * The Amazing Charlatans
 * The Kynd
 * 20 Essential Tracks from the Byrds Box Set (1965-1990) (Redirected to The Byrds (box set))
 * It Won't Be Wrong
 * Mr. Spaceman
 * Have You Seen Her Face
 * Lady Friend (song)
 * Preflyte
 * Full Circle Song
 * Why (The Byrds song)
 * History of The Byrds
 * Never Before (The Byrds album)
 * Let's Live for Today (song)
 * Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings (Bo Hansson album)
 * Kevin Kelley (musician)
 * H. P. Lovecraft
 * H. P. Lovecraft II
 * In the Beginning (The Byrds album)
 * The Hillmen
 * Appalachian Swing!
 * Paradise Circus (album)
 * & Love for All


 * Resurrected (i.e. undid deletion/redirect to improve)
 * 5D (Fifth Dimension)
 * Chestnut Mare
 * The Bells of Rhymney
 * McGuinn, Clark & Hillman

My top ten albums of all time
I realise that top 10 lists are nonsense, but in true High Fidelity fashion, I just had to make one. Of course, it's impossible to sum up all of your musical loves with just ten items. After all, music isn't shoes - it's oxygen.
 * 1) The Notorious Byrd Brothers - The Byrds
 * 2) Revolver - The Beatles
 * 3) The Beatles - The Beatles
 * 4) Fables of the Reconstruction - R.E.M.
 * 5) Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
 * 6) A Gift from a Flower to a Garden - Donovan
 * 7) Graceland - Paul Simon
 * 8) The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
 * 9) Paradise Circus - The Lilac Time
 * 10) Going Blank Again - Ride

My sandbox
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