BIRTHPLACE: Newton Memorial Hospital, Newton, NJ. SUSSEX COUNTY.
OCCUPATION: Starving Country Music singer/songwriter. Past positions have included dishwasher, roofer, mason, carpenter, general laborer, soil contamination tester, warehouse handler, and lousy salesman.
EDUCATION: Graduate of Kittatinny Regional High School, Newton, NJ, 1998. Biggest waste of time ever.
RELIGION: Firm Believer in God, morality, and the Laws of Nature since childhood; that's it.
Pressers of the issue get hit hard in the nose.
UPBRINGING: Raised by nonconformist family, basically ostracised by CON-servative rest of community. Spent ages between 7 and 14 without friends for most part, in woods or in front of TV when not in school, part of that time from about age 11 learning to play guitar in bedroom and basement (favorite things to try and play at the time were Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Slayer; later realized that the Sex Pistols and Ramones was about the extent of ablilities; see "Musical Background" below). Spent ages 14- 18 working, playing in Punk bands, getting in petty trouble with law and fights with peers, predominantly jocks and wiggers. Spent ages 18- present working like a son of a bitch. Parents still together; still in communication with two awesome brothers. INSANELY disfunctional family still loves each other more than anything on Earth.
INTERESTS: Getting stoned and watching "The Simpsons", Music (Singing, playing, writing songs), various Martial Arts, getting stoned and watching "Crocodile Hunter", women, various alcoholic beverages (particularly Southern Comfort, Yuengling Black and Tan beer, Pabst Blue Ribbon upon coming to the South, and, of course, Steel Reserve High-Gravity Lager), animals (especially dogs and snakes) getting stoned and watching "South Park," construction work (especially demolitions), religion/philosophy and the study thereof, anything involving the wilderness (hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering), getting stoned and watching the History Channel, cultural studies (bloodlines include Irish, German, Danish, Dutch, Ukranian, and speculated Mongolian and Mohawk Indian ancestry, including Teutonic Tribesmen, Celtic Noblemen, Viking Raiders, and, supposedly, veterans of Ireland's War for Independance and the American Revolution), getting stoned and watching 70's-80's horror movies, and most importantly, PUNK CULTURE AND THE PRESERVATION THEREOF. Loyal to our tribe since age 13.
MUSICAL BACKGROUND: First exposed to Bluegrass, Old-Time Country, Rockabilly, and Blues Music from birth, mostly thanks to father. Father wrote White Blues songs and played mean-ass Gibson F-Hole Guitar. Mother sang like an angel; first sang various Carter Family songs in son's presence. Later exposed to 80's metal and some Punk through older brother and cousins. First heard Sex Pistols at age 11 or 12; Misfits, Ramones, and G.G. Allin soon followed. Immediately vowed loyalty to the Punk movement and the destruction of civilization in the name of the savages. Played in various New Jersey Punk bands. Co-founded the Oi! Scouts in 1995 at age 15; appeared on every recording, either as bass player early on, or later as singer. Wrote about half their songs, including "Police Harrassment", "Bleeding Hearts", "Computers Make Me Sick", and others. Joined the Outsiders as lead/rythm guitarist in 1998; wrote "Don't Tread On Me". Joined Squiggy as bassist/singer in 2000. Wrote "We Walk The Fence", "Plastic Mansions", and "The Devil Went Down To Jersey", all recorded but yet to be released. Joined Hate Trash Disasters, founded by members of the Murder Junkies and the Vomiteers, in Fall of 2000, leaving shortly thereafter. Began writing Country songs in 1997, mostly influenced, at the time, by Johnny Cash. Has played with various members, or often played alone with guitar, on various stages since that time. Learned to play Country Rythm and various blues riffs from father on his old F-Hole; learned on Washburn D-10 flat top, still in use, the old-time hillbilly crosspicking styles, from various Pennsylvania Coal-Miners. Went to Nashville in June 2002; still working on career, back and forth between there and New Jersey.
MAJOR MUSICAL INFLUENCES: G.G. Allin, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Martin, Mike Ness/Social Distortion, Ralph Stanley, Kinky Friedman, Sex Pistols, Misfits, Bruisers, Ramones, Roy Acuff, Exploited, Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Skrewdriver, Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Oi! Polloi, Against Me, Niblick Henbane, Wretched Ones, Elvis Presley, Generation X/Billy Idol, David Allan Coe, The Damned, Motorhead, Johnny Rebel, Charlie Daniels Band, Willie Nelson, Doc Watson, Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath, Chuck Berry, Ultima Thule, Blitz, Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr., Hank Williams III, and many others; do you really give a crap anyway?!
INSTRUMENTS: Vocals, Guitar (acoustic and electric, Punk and Bluegrass styles), Bass (electric, acoustic, and upright), Harmonica, Various Hillbilly Percussion, Banjo, Appalacian Dulcimer, Irish Tin Whistle, Mandolin.
(listed in order of capability, good to pitiful).
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