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<blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 1359654" data-attributes="member: 1535"><p>Ive been eating,breathing,living,and alot of times sleeping with a guitar since I was 10 years old. I make most of my living playing music or in music business related businesses. I'm currently in 2 metal and industrial/metal bands- one in Des Moines Iowa that tours and records (even though we're all still broke bums), and another that is in the process of reorganizing. Im also kind of a mercenary guitarist playingin part time or sitting in with several friends bands and side projects in Des Moines,Kansas City, and I just joined a new metal band in the Tulsa area as a part time player. </p><p></p><p>Some of my gear,(my current main gigging gear is on the first page; gear that Im not using on the road but use recording,etc is on the 2nd page):</p><p><a href="http://community.webshots.com/album/562152470QbSaeN?vhost=community" target="_blank">http://community.webshots.com/album/562152470QbSaeN?vhost=community</a></p><p>one of my bands:</p><p><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/On+a+Pale+Horse" target="_blank">http://www.last.fm/music/On+a+Pale+Horse</a></p><p>same band:</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6y5etpXgTo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6y5etpXgTo</a></p><p>side project demos:</p><p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/Blackdeadheart" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/Blackdeadheart</a> </p><p></p><p>I started playing guitar at 10 when I was sent for classical lessons after sucking so bad at the piano. My mother had been a child piano protege (she played on NPR as a kid once in the 50s) and her father had been an actor in the 30s&40s and then a violinist later in his life in Los Angeles,Ca. My mother taught piano in our home. All of my older siblings excelled on the piano and I tried hard to learn on it but sucked at it pretty bad. Being around my mother and grandfather and other family and friends who were musicians I was around music pretty much since I was born. Plus my older brothers and sisters all were gifted on the piano and on other instruments. </p><p></p><p>I took to guitar well though. Like it was invented just for me. When I had been in lessons for a year or so my grandfathers old friend, the great LA luthier Rodriguez, built me a custom classical guitar. I practiced for hours and hours every day when other kids were out playing,just me and my metronome. I spent 5 years doing nothing but playing the guitar after school and sports. By 15 I was teaching the beginning classes at my instructors studio,then I started working in a local San Diego music store at 16 when I got my drivers license teaching lessons and selling guitars and gear. By then though I was into Black Sabbath pretty heavy and was ready to ditch the classical stuff. I wanted to be in a rock band. I started and played in a few bands with gear borrowed from the store I worked at. But I wanted a Les Paul and a Marshall stack. When I had saved a bit of money me and a buddy headed for LA hitting the pawn shops and I got what I wanted, and I still have that gear today. I started playing in better metal bands around southern California while in highschool and moved to San Francisco after highschool graduation in 87' to go to art school, and played in a bunch of crappy metal and thrash bands. I gigged every weekend up and down the coast,Reno,etc. I went to work in a tattoo shop apprenticing during art school,where I met my first wife,and played in bands at night and on weekends. I eventually landed a part time job in a studio as a session guitarist for awhile and quit the tattooing. In 00' we had gotten sick of California and we moved to Des Moines Iowa so I could play in a band that I had met from there while working in the studio in Cali, and so my ex could open her own tattoo shop. I now live in Oklahoma remarried to someone else but do alot of traveling with the music because my band and my business are still based in Iowa.</p><p></p><p>Because playing the type of music I play isnt a very good paying occupation,besides the music business related businesses I do I have always had to do other things on the side to bring in income. I also have to try and match my wifes high paying corporate exec salary. I dont do any tattooing any more but I still have an interest in 2 tattoo shops co-owned with my ex-wife and a couple of partners-one in Des Moines Iowa and another in California; and I own and manage a bit of personal and family property in my home state of California and in Iowa.</p><p></p><p>At home in Oklahoma I have a small shop/rehearsal/recording space where I do other things to make money in the music business. I build,sell custom guitar rack rig systems to local and touring guitarists; I buy/sell used guitars and gear from/to other working musicians; I collect/buy/sell/trade vintage guitars and gear; I give guitar lessons to quite a few very patient students; I work part time for a music store that my best friend/guitar tech/rythym guitarist in one of my bands manages where I contract out doing guitar setups,repairs,lessons,etc; and I help other young metal bands with getting organized,finding them management/booking,recording demos,etcetc.</p><p> </p><p>I really dont have much time for hobbies or much of anything else except family life because of the music stuff and tattoo shops but when I do have time off I try to fit in doing as much other stuff as I can. I like to do all kinds of art as a hobby; Ive been practicing martial arts since I was a little kid,Ive been boxing since I was in junior high school,Ive lifted weights since 9th grade- so I try to get in as many workouts as I can in my home gym; I have reptiles and arachnids- snakes,lizards,tarantulas and a scorpion; I like collecting guns/shooting; messing around with my 4x4s and playing with my 98' Toyota Supra,riding an old motorcycle my dad left me and riding motocross bikes with my kid on our land; I like to do auto audio/alarm installs; play around with home video/sound systems,electronics,computers; and then when I have a free Saturday night here and there I like to go play in a local table soccer/foosball DYP tournament in Tulsa or wherever Im at at the time. Occasionally when I can I go play in the bigger tournaments on Tornado Table Soccers pro tour (Ive been playing as a semi-pro since the early 80s);etcetc. I stay busy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nofearfactor, post: 1359654, member: 1535"] Ive been eating,breathing,living,and alot of times sleeping with a guitar since I was 10 years old. I make most of my living playing music or in music business related businesses. I'm currently in 2 metal and industrial/metal bands- one in Des Moines Iowa that tours and records (even though we're all still broke bums), and another that is in the process of reorganizing. Im also kind of a mercenary guitarist playingin part time or sitting in with several friends bands and side projects in Des Moines,Kansas City, and I just joined a new metal band in the Tulsa area as a part time player. Some of my gear,(my current main gigging gear is on the first page; gear that Im not using on the road but use recording,etc is on the 2nd page): [url]http://community.webshots.com/album/562152470QbSaeN?vhost=community[/url] one of my bands: [url]http://www.last.fm/music/On+a+Pale+Horse[/url] same band: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6y5etpXgTo[/url] side project demos: [url]http://www.myspace.com/Blackdeadheart[/url] I started playing guitar at 10 when I was sent for classical lessons after sucking so bad at the piano. My mother had been a child piano protege (she played on NPR as a kid once in the 50s) and her father had been an actor in the 30s&40s and then a violinist later in his life in Los Angeles,Ca. My mother taught piano in our home. All of my older siblings excelled on the piano and I tried hard to learn on it but sucked at it pretty bad. Being around my mother and grandfather and other family and friends who were musicians I was around music pretty much since I was born. Plus my older brothers and sisters all were gifted on the piano and on other instruments. I took to guitar well though. Like it was invented just for me. When I had been in lessons for a year or so my grandfathers old friend, the great LA luthier Rodriguez, built me a custom classical guitar. I practiced for hours and hours every day when other kids were out playing,just me and my metronome. I spent 5 years doing nothing but playing the guitar after school and sports. By 15 I was teaching the beginning classes at my instructors studio,then I started working in a local San Diego music store at 16 when I got my drivers license teaching lessons and selling guitars and gear. By then though I was into Black Sabbath pretty heavy and was ready to ditch the classical stuff. I wanted to be in a rock band. I started and played in a few bands with gear borrowed from the store I worked at. But I wanted a Les Paul and a Marshall stack. When I had saved a bit of money me and a buddy headed for LA hitting the pawn shops and I got what I wanted, and I still have that gear today. I started playing in better metal bands around southern California while in highschool and moved to San Francisco after highschool graduation in 87' to go to art school, and played in a bunch of crappy metal and thrash bands. I gigged every weekend up and down the coast,Reno,etc. I went to work in a tattoo shop apprenticing during art school,where I met my first wife,and played in bands at night and on weekends. I eventually landed a part time job in a studio as a session guitarist for awhile and quit the tattooing. In 00' we had gotten sick of California and we moved to Des Moines Iowa so I could play in a band that I had met from there while working in the studio in Cali, and so my ex could open her own tattoo shop. I now live in Oklahoma remarried to someone else but do alot of traveling with the music because my band and my business are still based in Iowa. Because playing the type of music I play isnt a very good paying occupation,besides the music business related businesses I do I have always had to do other things on the side to bring in income. I also have to try and match my wifes high paying corporate exec salary. I dont do any tattooing any more but I still have an interest in 2 tattoo shops co-owned with my ex-wife and a couple of partners-one in Des Moines Iowa and another in California; and I own and manage a bit of personal and family property in my home state of California and in Iowa. At home in Oklahoma I have a small shop/rehearsal/recording space where I do other things to make money in the music business. I build,sell custom guitar rack rig systems to local and touring guitarists; I buy/sell used guitars and gear from/to other working musicians; I collect/buy/sell/trade vintage guitars and gear; I give guitar lessons to quite a few very patient students; I work part time for a music store that my best friend/guitar tech/rythym guitarist in one of my bands manages where I contract out doing guitar setups,repairs,lessons,etc; and I help other young metal bands with getting organized,finding them management/booking,recording demos,etcetc. I really dont have much time for hobbies or much of anything else except family life because of the music stuff and tattoo shops but when I do have time off I try to fit in doing as much other stuff as I can. I like to do all kinds of art as a hobby; Ive been practicing martial arts since I was a little kid,Ive been boxing since I was in junior high school,Ive lifted weights since 9th grade- so I try to get in as many workouts as I can in my home gym; I have reptiles and arachnids- snakes,lizards,tarantulas and a scorpion; I like collecting guns/shooting; messing around with my 4x4s and playing with my 98' Toyota Supra,riding an old motorcycle my dad left me and riding motocross bikes with my kid on our land; I like to do auto audio/alarm installs; play around with home video/sound systems,electronics,computers; and then when I have a free Saturday night here and there I like to go play in a local table soccer/foosball DYP tournament in Tulsa or wherever Im at at the time. Occasionally when I can I go play in the bigger tournaments on Tornado Table Soccers pro tour (Ive been playing as a semi-pro since the early 80s);etcetc. I stay busy. [/QUOTE]
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