William Kopecky | Biography

born: November 17, 1969

nationality: USA (but currently living in Marseille, France)

astrological sign: Scorpio

main instrument: electric bass

secondary instruments: keyboards, sitar

weaponry:

- Axtra 4 string fretted and fretless custom basses

- Music Man 5 string Bongo bass

- Warwick 6 string Corvette bass

- Hartke 3500 amp

- Ampeg SVT II Pro amp

- Ampeg 8x10 and 4x10 cabinets

- Boss flanger, phaser, chorus, and digital delay

- Red Llama distortion

- Boomerang loop device

- Roland V-Bass

- E-Bows

influences: Chris Squire, Billy Sheehan, Mick Karn, Jaco Pastorius, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ravi Shankar, Tripti Mukherjee, Veena Chandra, ritual music of Tibetan monks, Robert Smith, Univers Zero, Rush, Miles Davis, Robert Fripp, Edgar Allan Poe, J.G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, the Surrealists, Ben Okri, Hans Bellmer, H.R. Giger, Francis Bacon, David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, and the Brothers Quay

other interests: poetry, painting, dark beer

favorite animals: giraffes and scorpions

favorite colors: black and red

favorite films: Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Stalker, Ten Astonishing Short Films (Bros. Quay), The Plague Dogs, Killing Zoe, Crash, Eraserhead, Tokyo Decadence, and Un Chien Andalou

favorite books:

Edgar Allan Poe; Complete Tales and Poems

J.G. Ballard; Day of Creation

J.G. Ballard, Unlimited Dream Company

Stanislaw Lem; Solaris

Georges Bataille; Story of an Eye

Ted Hughes; Crow

Max Ernst; Une Semaine du Bonte

Wm. Shakespeare; MacBeth

Edward B. Germain, ed.; Surrealist Poems in English

W.Y. Evans-Wentz, ed.; Tibetan Book of the Dead

desert island CD’s:

Univers Zero; Heresie

Rush; Hemispheres

The Cure; Disintegration

Yes; Tales From Topographic Oceans

Tripti Mukherjee: Melodious Bhajans

Kopecky; Sunset Gun

Black Sabbath; Mob Rules

Miles Davis; Dark Magus

Return To Forever; Romantic Warrior

Karn, Bozzio, Torn; Polytown

guiding principle: Nada Brahma (Sound is God)