Harry Perry
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Harry Perry is a Venice Beach boardwalk musician famous for playing an electric guitar on rollerblades while wearing a turban. He has released three CDs: Harrry 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 of Jimi Hendrix or Eddie Van Halen. He is originally from Detroit, Michigan and began playing on Venice Beach in 1974.
He made cameo appearances in the movies Dragnet, White Men Can't Jump and Point of No Return, and the television shows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Vengeance Unlimited. He also performed one song on the soundtrack to the movie Point of No Return. [1] [2]
He made guest appearances with System of a Down during Ozzfest concerts of 2006.[citation needed]
Perry and his partner Robert "Jingles" Newmann 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.[1]
He is a vegetarian.
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- ^ http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/coa/newopinions.nsf/04485f8dcbd4e1ea882569520074e698/8495a23a4d3136ab88256e5a00718b18
Herry Perry also made a short appearance in the game Tony Hawk's Project 8 in one of the Pro videos.
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