Bill Samsel is a talented artist. He is a vocalist, songwriter, recording artist and a published author. He has traveled the country and has performed and been interviewed on radio and television shows. "My influences range wide.” He says. “From Elvis, Holly, Jerry Lee, Sam Cooke, to the Beatles, Traffic, the brothers Gibb, to Donovan, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot. Then there’s Morrison, Jagger and Bowie and then Cash, Yoakam and Willie and then Bob Marley, the Itals and Gregory Isaacs to B. B. King, John Lee Hooker . . . If I think about it, I could go on and on.” “I’ve written songs that could be classified as Blues, Rock, Pop, Reggae, Jazz, Folk, Country, etc. I love all kinds of different music. I even listen to Beethoven, Ravi Shankar and R. Carlos Nakai.” Over the years I went from mimicking other artists...that’s what a lot of people do...they mimic other artists...I went from that, to experimenting and it took a long time but I eventually found my own voice, my own unique sound, so that I don’t sound like anyone else. Elvis had his own sound. The same with Donovan and Yoakam and Winwood. You can’t mistake them when you hear them. Sam Cooke had his own sound and nobody else sounded like him. When you hear Sam Cooke...you know right off that it’s Sam Cooke! That’s what a real vocalist has to do." "Another thing that makes an artist is the ability to write songs that are potential HITS. Not just one or two but many. I’ve always felt that the greatest hit songs were simple and short, three or four minutes in length, something simple and short and "catchy". The "hook" is extremely important. It’s the hook that catches in people’s minds so that they go about their business whistling or humming the tune. It sticks in their mind. That’s the whole point of it. That’s what makes it a hit. I’ve written a few hundred tunes in my time with these thoughts in mind. This is how I’ve always done it and will continue to do so." STUFF BILL SAMSEL LIKES Interests: Not having my rights or freedom, my liberty or privacy, my property or person subjugated by Big Brother or the Corporate elites! Sports: the Washington Turncoats! They're in the American Traitors League. Music: I listen to ALL Kinds of muse. I go through phases. I dont listen to radio or keep up at all with what's new or who's who or what's what today. My listening goes through rock, blues,jazz,reggae, country, I LOVE the following artists.... Beatles, Doors, Stones, Bowie, Traffic, Hendrix, Bee Gees, Donovan, Bob Marley, the Itals, Glen Miller, Moody Blues, Sam Cooke, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, DWIGHT YOAKAM, Ravi Shankar, Jerry Lee Lewis, B. B. King, the Four Tops, Canned Heat, Beethoven, Cat Stevens, Sons of the Pioneers, Frank Zappa, R. Carlos Nakai, James Brown, Buddy Holly, Gordon Lightfoot, etc. Movies: Favorite Movies are...FORBIDDEN PLANET! TOMBSTONE, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Life of Brian, Dances with Wolves, TV: Doctor Who, Honeymooners, M.A.S.H. Fawlty Towers, I, Claudius, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, Star Trek, Books: Today's New Atlantis (I wrote it), All of Ralph Cotton's westerns, Louis L'Amour, And The Truth Shall Set You Free by David Icke, The Late, Great USA by Jerome Corsi, Heroes/Idols: Wm. A. Samsel, Donovan, Thomas Jefferson, RON PAUL, Alex Jones, Bill Samsel is a talented artist. He is a vocalist, songwriter, recording artist and a published author. He has traveled the country and has performed and been interviewed on radio and television shows. "My influences range wide.” He says. “From Elvis, Holly, Jerry Lee, Sam Cooke, to the Beatles, Traffic, the brothers Gibb, to Donovan, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot. Then there’s Morrison, Jagger and Bowie and then Cash, Yoakam and Willie and then Bob Marley, the Itals and Gregory Isaacs to B. B. King, John Lee Hooker . . . If I think about it, I could go on and on.” “I’ve written songs that could be classified as Blues, Rock, Pop, Reggae, Jazz, Folk, Country, etc. I love all kinds of different music. I even listen to Beethoven, Ravi Shankar and R. Carlos Nakai.” Over the years I went from mimicking other artists...that’s what a lot of people do...they mimic other artists...I went from that, to experimenting and it took a long time but I eventually found my own voice, my own unique sound, so that I don’t sound like anyone else. Elvis had his own sound. The same with Donovan and Yoakam and Winwood. You can’t mistake them when you hear them. Sam Cooke had his own sound and nobody else sounded like him. When you hear Sam Cooke...you know right off that it’s Sam Cooke! That’s what a real vocalist has to do." "Another thing that makes an artist is the ability to write songs that are potential HITS. Not just one or two but many. I’ve always felt that the greatest hit songs were simple and short, three or four minutes in length, something simple and short and "catchy". The "hook" is extremely important. It’s the hook that catches in people’s minds so that they go about their business whistling or humming the tune. It sticks in their mind. That’s the whole point of it. That’s what makes it a hit. I’ve written a few hundred tunes in my time with these thoughts in mind. This is how I’ve always done it and will continue to do so." STUFF BILL SAMSEL LIKES Interests: Not having my rights or freedom, my liberty or privacy, my property or person subjugated by Big Brother or the Corporate elites! Sports: the Washington Turncoats! They're in the American Traitors League. Music: I listen to ALL Kinds of muse. I go through phases. I dont listen to radio or keep up at all with what's new or who's who or what's what today. My listening goes through rock, blues,jazz,reggae, country, I LOVE the following artists.... Beatles, Doors, Stones, Bowie, Traffic, Hendrix, Bee Gees, Donovan, Bob Marley, the Itals, Glen Miller, Moody Blues, Sam Cooke, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, DWIGHT YOAKAM, Ravi Shankar, Jerry Lee Lewis, B. B. King, the Four Tops, Canned Heat, Beethoven, Cat Stevens, Sons of the Pioneers, Frank Zappa, R. Carlos Nakai, James Brown, Buddy Holly, Gordon Lightfoot, etc. Movies: Favorite Movies are...FORBIDDEN PLANET! TOMBSTONE, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Life of Brian, Dances with Wolves, TV: Doctor Who, Honeymooners, M.A.S.H. Fawlty Towers, I, Claudius, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, Star Trek, Books: Today's New Atlantis (I wrote it), All of Ralph Cotton's westerns, Louis L'Amour, And The Truth Shall Set You Free by David Icke, The Late, Great USA by Jerome Corsi,