Harry Perry
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Harry Perry is a Venice Beach boardwalk musician famous for playing an electric guitar on rollerblades while wearing a turban. He has released three CDs: Harry Perry Band's Video Commander, Skate Town Ball and Harry Perry's Greatest Hits Of The Millennium. He typically uses distortion effects and plays in a style reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix or Eddie Van Halen.[citation needed] He is originally from Detroit, Michigan, and began playing on Venice Beach in 1974. He is dedicated to health and fitness, running twenty miles daily and practicing Kundalini yoga. On that same note, he is a non-smoking vegetarian.[1]
He made cameo appearances in the movies Dragnet, White Men Can't Jump, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, Gift and Point of No Return, as well as the television shows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Vengeance Unlimited. He also performed one song on the soundtrack to the movie Point of No Return.[2][3]
He made guest appearances with System of a Down during Ozzfest concerts of 2006.[4], and also appears in Serj Tankian's "Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition" music video.
Perry and his partner Robert "Jingles" Newman were also instrumental in winning a California Court decision involving free speech rights of artists to earn their living as buskers in public places and the rights of artists to sell copies of their own original work.[5]
[edit] Notes
- ^ He's going the Distance: An Interview with Harry Perry. BrooWaha. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.
- ^ Harry Perry (II). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-05-22.
- ^ Soundtracks for Point of No Return (1993). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-05-22.
- ^ http://www.soadfans.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-12420.htm
- ^ 9th Circuit Opinion - PERRY V LAPD. United States district court. Retrieved on 2007-05-22.
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