- Harry Perry
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Harry Perry is a
Venice Beach boardwalk musician famous for playing anelectric guitar onrollerblades while wearing aturban . 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 ofJimi Hendrix orEddie Van Halen .fact|date=December 2007 He is originally fromDetroit, Michigan , and began playing on Venice Beach in 1974. He is dedicated tohealth and fitness,running twenty miles daily and practicingKundalini yoga . On that same note, he is anon-smoking vegetarian. [cite web|title=He's going the Distance: An Interview with Harry Perry|publisher=BrooWaha|url=http://losangeles.broowaha.com/article.php?id=596|accessdate=2007-06-24]He made
cameo appearance s in the movies "Fletch", "Dragnet", "White Men Can't Jump ", "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny ", "Gift" and "Point of No Return", "Marching out of Time ", as well as the television shows "" and "Vengeance Unlimited ". He also performed one song on the soundtrack to the movie "Point of No Return". [cite web|title=Harry Perry (II)|publisher=Internet Movie Database |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675092|accessdate=2007-05-22] [cite web|title=Soundtracks for Point of No Return (1993)|publisher=Internet Movie Database |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107843/soundtrack|accessdate=2007-05-22]He made guest appearances with
System of a Down duringOzzfest concerts of2006 . [ [http://www.soadfans.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-12420.htm SOAD with Harry Perry :: The Official UnOfficial System Of a Down Site! ] ] , and also appears inSerj 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. [cite web|title=9th Circuit Opinion - PERRY V LAPD|publisher=United States district court |url=http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/coa/newopinions.nsf/04485f8dcbd4e1ea882569520074e698/8495a23a4d3136ab88256e5a00718b18|accessdate=2007-05-22]Most recently, Perry could be found playing the campground of the 2008 Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival as well as the 2008
Rock Fest inCadott ,Wisconsin .Notes
External links
* [http://losangeles.broowaha.com/article.php?id=596 BrooWaha Interview]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675092/ IMDB profile]
* [http://www.harryperryband.com Harry Perry Band website]
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