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Artist
Sport Murphy
12+ albums
USA
about
Who is SPORT? Sport is "a poet... a singer of songs" (like Tony Curtis in Spartacus) He also enjoys building dioramas, drawing and painting, and collecting all sorts of old stuff - especially paper ephemera, antique toys, and items of grotesque interest. He used to lead a rock band called the Skels, and now plays with a band provisionally named the Sound-Sations! He lives in Long Island New York, but was born in Texas and raised in Brooklyn. His ethnic heritage is, unsurprisingly, Irish American. He does a regular comix page for punk fanzine UNDER THE VOLCANO. Why "SPORT?" This is a teenage nickname based on the BONZO DOG BAND song "Sport (the odd boy)." It was reinforced by the pimp named Sport played by Harvey Keitel in Scorcese's TAXI DRIVER. The nickname seems to confound certain individuals he meets, who insist on cocking an eyebrow and sneering: "Sport? That's your name? Are you a 'Good Sport?' Haw haw! Is that name on your birth certificate? Haw haw!" The monicker is worth keeping if only for its efficacy in immediately identifying persons of this general class of intellectual sophistication and social grace. How does Sport view the making of music? It is like building ships in bottles or model railroading. It is like the sacrament of the Eucharist. It's like spanking one's monkey. The composition of even one bad tune is an act more important than anything ever even contemplated by the likes of Donald Trump (not that that's saying very much). Music is a direct con
