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BIOGRAPHY
ANCIENT HISTORY 
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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, Incubus,
Green Day, 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
as well as performing solo  live  around Los Angeles.

          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, composer songwriter, funny lyricist,
                              sardonic song lyrics, witty song lyricist + many others )

          BITCHY AND 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.

          DR. DeCREPID
Increasingly, suspicions have arisen that  MICK TERRY 
has a much darker side.  On most Halloweens since 1997,  
MICK seems to disappear at night for several hours at a time.
During those periods, reports of a nefarious ghoul lurking
around Los Angeles have proliferated.

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 bowells of the creature's monster KORG.

Suburban legends & folklore have spread
about this phenomenon & it has become known
around L.A. as  Dr. DeCrepid ,
the despicable de-composer of distaste,
the diabolical director of disection,
the dreadful denizen of disaster.
(Although the loathsome creature had been totally unheard of
prior to MICK'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 steadfastly denies any involvement in this matter.)

[ Note :   Prior to the move from Maryland to California,
MICK TERRY was known professionally as
MICHAEL STEVEN TERRY   or
MICHAEL C. TERRY. ]

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

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[ Demon head - © 1996 Mike Strick Creation Zone ]
[ Dr. DeCrepid, Mick Terry photo - Tammy Abbott ]
[ Treble clefs (shadow, gray) - Music Graphics Galore ]

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