Join: Aug 31, 2006

Name: FlyingHorseKnuckles

Gender: Male

Hometown: Niles, MI

Location: Simi Valley, CA, US

Videos Watched: 4334

Subscribers: 191

Channel Views: 8779

Books: The Holy Bible, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, A Wrinkle in Time, Tom Sawyer, The Forgotten Door, Chaos - making a new science

Movies: It's a Wonderful Life, War of the Worlds, Miracle Worker, Somewhere in Time (actually, any time travel film), Ghost World, Rushmore, Lost In Translation, Bottle Rocket, Memento, A Patch of Blue, Touched by Love, Blade Runner, Flight of the Phoenix (original), Firecreek, The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, A Night at the Opera, Star Wars (all), any film by Frank Capra or P.T. Anderson, Excaliber, Altered States, A Christmas Carol (all versions), Jane Eyre (all versions), Angus, My Bodyguard, Skinny and Fatty (all of the Childrens' Film Festival shows), any Candid Camera type show, reality TV (not the contrived stuff), etc...

Music: Shawn Colvin, Tom Waites, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, The Roches, Jethro Tull, Stan Ridgeway, Chiara Civello, Bebel Gilberto, Ben Folds (his solo stuff), Aimee Mann, Dave Grisman, Allison Krauss, Nora Jones, Steely Dan, Cat Stevens, CSN(and sometimes Y), Elton John, Billy Joel, The Beatles, All About Eve, Rasputina, ELO, Peter Gabriel, Gordon Lightfoot, Yes, Stephen Bishop, James Taylor, America, Wendy Carlos, Tomita, Erik Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Christmas Carols, too many more to mention

Hobbies: Music, science, art, Photoshop, wordplay, humor, writing, practical jokes, 3D Photography, Lightwave3D

Eclectic, zany, romantic, intellectual, love a good debate, kind to small animals, great smelling!

Videos (51)

"Restitution" - original song by Jon Shelton (stereo)

  • Length: 4:32
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 28 people
  • View Count: 343' favoriteCount='10
  • Author: FlyingHorseKnuckles

Tags: ammends  Bible  forgiveness  God  Jesus  Jon  original  peace  reconcile  reconciliation  redemption  Restitution  salvation  Shelton 

I made this about six years ago with my son Sam on chorus vocals. He was eight at the time. I decided to just use thumbnail sketches to tell the story. If anyone feels up to the task, they may create their own video of this song. I will send them the mp3 music track to accomplish this. Any...

"Something Shared" - original music by Jon Shelton

  • Length: 2:25
  • Rating Average: 4.93 from 14 people
  • View Count: 179' favoriteCount='2
  • Author: FlyingHorseKnuckles

Tags: acoustic  Bossa  Brazilian  guitar  hands  Jon  Nova  original  pizza  Samba  Shared  Shelton  Something 

Here's a litty ditty (in stereo!) I made up a month or so ago. I've enlisted the aid of a couple of friends of mine - my hands, for this number. ...And oh, I too now realize that I put "words & music by Jon Shelton" on the end title card when in fact there are NO words in this instrumental piece...

Fair Dinkum - in STEREO (original song by Jon Shelton)

  • Length: 2:7
  • Rating Average: 4.71 from 7 people
  • View Count: 348' favoriteCount='2
  • Author: FlyingHorseKnuckles

Tags: acoustic  alternative  Aussie  Dinkum  Fair  flv  guitar  indie  Jon  original  pizza  Shelton  slang  songwriter  songwriting  stereo 

With the assistance of my friend EdenMaze, I am now able to upload STEREO flv files with VERY GOOD VIDEO QUALITY, too! There is no going back now! I have both Stereo and the original Mono versions available to view so all may compare and see and hear the differences. The Mono version can be...

Favorites (3)

Virginie - (FlyingHorseKnuckles cover.. in french)

  • Length: 3:30
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 14 people
  • View Count: 566
  • Author: genealogyy

Tags: acoustic  bass  chanson  cover  epiphone  FlyingHorseKnuckles  française  french  Genealogyy  guitar  Virginia  Virginie 

"Virginia" is a FlyingHorseKnuckles's original song. I've listened it one day and found really beautiful the melody. Jon told me something like "could you do it in french?"... hey Jon!! this is my cover.. and I hope all my YT friends'll enjoy it! Thanks you Jon, you are a good musician and your...

The Water is Wide

  • Length: 5:45
  • Rating Average: 4.95 from 20 people
  • View Count: 1424' favoriteCount='4
  • Author: abukhatar

Tags: 3d  animatechnica  animation  anime  anti-war  british  cgi  folk  history  iclone  jon  music  protest  shelton  war  water 

Jon Shelton, Kathy Sundquist and Steve Freiburger recorded a beautiful rendition of the folk song The Water is Wide. I thought the song made a fitting metaphor for old men and their love of 'the game' and youth's disillusionment once they realize they're the ones that pay the price for old men's...

Virginia (FlyingHorseKnuckles cover)

  • Length: 2:35
  • Rating Average: 4.84 from 32 people
  • View Count: 3609
  • Author: zzzzzzzzap

Tags: cover  FlyingHorseKnuckles  guitar  my  piano  response  sing  song  virginia  zzzzzzzzap 

FlyingHorseKnuckles was one of my earlier subscriptions and I remember thinking his channel was a real find; well written, quirky songs fronted by an all round nice guy- someone who'll never neglect checking your videos out; for which I am very grateful! Anyway, I remember seeing this post...