I could write a book on my development. I"m all over the darn place.
I started playing guitar seriously at age 12, picked up keyboard and bass 2 years after that, around the same time I started fixing up, building, and modifying guitars.
A lot of artists and bands inspired me along the way, the top most noticeable being Nirvana, The Cars, Loverboy, ZZ Top, Van-Halen, the B-52's, and Metallica.
I started writing songs and music six months after starting guitar lessons, I think I'm a shit singer, others tell me I'm good, whatever, I have a small phobia of singing to overcome (I can't do Karaoke sober for instance). But I guess I write good lyrics or so the few people whove seen them tell me. I mostly come from an angry/humorous/disturbed/sad/meloncholly angle musically all around. I would put vocals up if I did not have the connundrum of recording in a apartment with thin walls. I do most of my recording direct. Music, guitar especially, is an outlet of my aggression.
I kind of came up with my own sound over the years by mixing up 80's rock, metal, and pop with the ethos, feel, looseness, and anger of the early 1990's grunge rock and late 1990's Nu-Metal - creating sort of a heavily chorused, angry, but very melodic sort of thing of my own. This is both as a guitarist, a musician, and a composer.
I've played in little local acts few have heard about over the years...Lithium, Smokin' 66', and Zombie Jihad being the most successful of them. I'm currently building a 90's cover band with some pals and working on an idea of going commercial (ie pro) with my own compositions either solo or with some kind of hand made band.
