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Equipment: Fender Precision bass (year unknown), Fender Jazz Bass (year unknown), 2000 Rickenbacker bass, 1990 Ibanez EX bass, Ampeg SVT with 8x10 cab
I used to play in the bands... Pissed, Dead Fish, Grisham's Army, Backwoods Mississippi Anarchy Orchestra, The Local Toughs, Speed, Blackout, and Assault.
I used to produce the 'zines... Profane Existence, Assault With Intent to Free, The Oxford American, Living Blues, Rebel Yell.
Now contributing to Profane Existence fanzine and publishing The Local Voice.
Other activities I partake: graphic design, sound design, coffee and tea drinkin', artwork and cooking.
I've designed CDs & records for... Moral Crux, Kudzu Kings, Blue Mountain, Wobitty, The Neckbones, Billy Gibson, Fling Hammer, Atomic Jefferson, CYC, "Howlin' Madd" Bill Perry, Grounded Pilots, and many others
Did you know #1... Newt won a National Magazine Award in 1999 for co-producing The Oxford American Southern Music magazine.
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Did you know #2... My crew at Profane Existence started the DIY punk resource Book Your Own Fuckin' Life! way back in 1991
Favorite bands... Dead Kennedys, Motorhead, Voivod, Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Misfits, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Helios Creed, Subhumans (UK), Judas Priest, DRI, Bad Brians, Discharge, Nausea, Sepultura, Praxis, GBH, Amebix, Neurosis, Destroy, Body Count, Guns N Roses, Scroat Belly... and a bunch more old school punk and metal.
Oh, yeah... The Stooges, The Clash, Fugazi, Old School Aerosmith, old school Megadeth, old school Motley Crue, Jimi Hendrix, MC5, BOC, Chuck Berry and a bunch of other old rocknroll, blues and jazz.
Hell, I love... punk rock, heavy metal, and high octane rocknroll!!!!
But I bet you'd never guess that I also like... Tom Petty, Janis Joplin, Link Wray, Elvis, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Beatles, the Blues Brothers, Soundgarden, Ice T, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Jane's Addiction, Blind Melon, RHCP, RATM, and many others...
And you know what else? Stoner metal, anarcho-punk, d-beat, garage rock,
acid punk, rockabilly, noise, jazz, blues, rocknroll, and anything else that is real music, made by real people, with real feeling, conveying real ideas
with no boundaries or RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Favorite Bass Players: Steve Harris, Cliff Burton, Lemmy, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Bootsy, Kim Gordon, Blacky, Klaus Flouride, Geezer Butler, Justin Warren, Duff McKagen, Geddy Lee, Sid Vicious, Brad Smith.
Favorite sports stars: Dennis Rodman, Wilt Chamberlin, John McEnroe, Ricky Williams, Ron Artest!
Favorite Revolutionaries: Abbie Hoffman, John Sinclair, Emma Goldman,
Johnny Reb, Hakim Bey, Jello Biafra...
Favorite expression I use: "PPPBBBTTT!"
Interesting tidbits... Newt comes from a couple of families of musicians:
The Rayburns and The Hookers of north Mississippi.
The Rayburns... Newt's Dad...
Newt's Grandfather, Harry Rayburn Sr., was a multi-talented musician originally from Abbeville, Mississippi. Harry played everything from banjo to French Horn but ultimately thrived as the conductor of bands and orchestras throughout the 1930's and 1940's in North Mississippi, including The Mississippi College Orchestra, The Choctaw Playboys, and the high school bands of Moss Point and Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Newt's Dad, Tommy Rayburn, was the bassist for the Kangaroos and the Sugar Cube Blues Band in the late 1960's. He released a few singles on Bell and the Stax affiliate Hip Records. Issac Hayes produced one single that featured the Staple Singers on background vocals. Tommy was a strong supporter of The Cooters and Newt inherited much of his music talent from his father, who started Newt out many years ago on bass guitar.
Newt's brother, Carver Rayburn, is a bass player who has played with many bands over the years including Boko Maru Madness and Dead Zendo Street.
Newt's uncle, Harry Rayburn Jr., was well known in the late 1960's throughout Mississppi for his drumming with the Pre-Dawn 5 and the Sundowners. Recorded by Dann Penn at Muscle Schoals, Alabama, The Pre-Dawn 5 released several garage rock records. But Harry Jr. was also widely acclaimed throughout the State for his drum solos. In fact, Harry played many packed shows back in the day, armed solely with a drum kit, neon paint, and some black lights!!!
Harry Jr.'s son is Tyler Rayburn, the hard hittin' percussionist for DayBreakDown!
The Hookers... Newt's mom....
Newt's mom is Elizabeth Gray Hooker Herron,
a successful businesslady in Meridian, Mississippi.
Beth was also one hell of a piano player back in the day.
I wish Mom would play piano like she used to!
Newt's second brother is Shelby Hooker Rayburn,
a top notch live sound engineer and booking agent in Mississippi.
Newt's uncle Dr. Phil Hooker is a trumpeteer
and a singer often heard in the First Baptist Church of West Point, Mississippi.
Dr. Phil's first son, Phillip Hooker,
was a studio engineer for many years in Los Angeles,
Nashville, and Orlando. Phillip worked on many albums
with likes of LL Cool J and Shaquille O'Neal.
Dr. Phil's second son is Andrew Hooker,
the guitarist and songwriter formerly of the West Point band Grounded Pilots.
Andrew currently lives and records near Nashville, Tennessee.
He has a GREAT fusion rock band called Vinyl Soup.
Newt's step-sister, Elizabeth Ann Herron,
is a beautiful singer who often sings incredible hyms
at the Catholic church in Meridian, Mississippi.
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