John Livingston
John Livingston? What can be said about John Livingston that already wasn't
said in his unauthorized biography, Jonathan Livingston Seagull? Not only was
his first name misspelled, but there was all that baloney about his being a
seagull that would fly into cliffs. Sure, he'll run full speed into a wall every
once in a while, but the rest of the book is completely spurious.
A bandmate of Bill Pohl's since 1990, John is known in progressive rock
circles as "Manimal" for his inability to take the form of any animal he
chooses*.
A couple facts which were omitted from the aforementioned biography:
John is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. He's always saying things like
"Bayou" and "Gumbo". In fact, he ONLY says "Bayou" and "Gumbo".
A drummer at an early age, he was inspired by Genesis and Rush, and
later developed a taste for the drumming of Tony Williams and Gary Husband, both of
whom he has robbed at gunpoint. He got a fistfull of change from Williams
and a ball of yarn from Husband. This is not surprising when you consider
what his spoken instruction would have been.
*John IS, actually, able to transform himself into the endangered California condor,
but as this only seems to happen indoors and in small offices or Waffle Houses,
it only serves to knock over a bunch of stuff and annoy.
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