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About Me

My life pretty much revolves around studying how to play guitar and especially riffs and solos by my favorite bands. I've been playing for five years now. Guitar has become my life as it is an extension of my liking of metal and what I devote most of my free time to. I sometimes think of it as a way of therapy as well. If I have had a bad day, I can just sit back and practice for a few hours and feel better about everything after doing so. This has happened on so many occasions that I have learned that when all else fails, my guitar is there for me and it will never let me down. I am currently working on my own project band called "Beyond Recognition". You can listen to stuff I've recorded at www.myspace.com/beyondrecognitionmetal. Being a self taught guitarist, I'm always looking for that next challenging song to play, or a way to create new guitar sounds. I don't follow trends as I strive to create the kind of music I want to hear. My long term goals musically are to grow as a guitarist, be in a successful band, release some professional metal records, jam with some great musicians and hopefully jam with some of my heroes/influences. Basically, I would very much like to make a career out of music.I've recently gone on a weightloss crusade since the beginning of March 2009. Originally in April of 2007, I weighed 207 lbs. I lost some weight that year and got down to the mid 180's. Since March of this year, I've lost roughly 40 lbs. and am in the mid 140's with my weight right now. That means I've lost about 60 lbs. in almost 27 months as of late June 2009. I've finally achieved my target weight and am looking to just maintain now, which I am having a good time with and having fun hitting weights now lol. I think many people including my immediate family did not think that I could be as successful with this as I have been but I have proven everyone wrong. For that reason, I've learned for sure that anything is possible in life if you can be committed enough. This whole experience has helped me to put many things in perspective and grow mentally as well as re-shape my body. I feel I am now a much stronger person mentally than I ever have been, which is something I am very proud of...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Any heavy metal musician that has ever been an inspiration to me or whose music helped me through rough times in my life. Basically, anyone in my heroes section...

My Blog

Influences - Part II

-Created August 2009-Last updated: 8/9/09 - 1:10 am**Continued from Part I****Year by year progressions in my playing**Self explanatory. Serves as background info to what I was listening to at that po...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:07:00 GMT

Influences - Part I

-Originally created sometime in August 2007-Last Updated: 8/8/09 - 12:46 amI figured that anyone interested in my guitar playing probably would like to have a direct knowledge of who has influenced me...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:06:00 GMT

5 years (and still counting)...

Comrades,It's that time of the year again...May. I'm now officially kicking off the month long celebration of me playing guitar for roughly 5 years. In reality, the actual month of 2004 that I started...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 22:38:00 GMT

'Lil Update

Comrades,Been a long while since there was an update on the status of my project Beyond Recognition. I checked back into the studio yesterday and began the process of arranging drums for some of my ol...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:16:00 GMT

3 years today/Golden Era

I didn't realize this until about 3:45 this afternoon, but on February 3rd, 2006, an era unofficially began...I was sitting in my room that night and was really depressed about not being in a relation...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:08:00 GMT

Goodbye to 2008...And good riddance...

And so here we are. 2008 is done and I'm glad it is. I did one of these blogs last year at this time and it's interesting to think about where I was at that point in time. For me, 2007 was the year of...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:30:00 GMT

7 years to the day...

December 13th, 2001...A legend in the music world passed away long before he should have. Stricken with a brain tumor/cancer, Chuck Schuldiner, the innovator of Death Metal, passed away on this day du...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:45:00 GMT

This week...

A new personal record was shattered this week for me. The most songs I had ever written in a month on guitar was either 5 or 6. Well, this week I wrote 8 (in a week, not a month!!!). And while th...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:44:00 GMT

November 16th: Doug Harrington Day

R.I.P. Doug Harrington: 1966-2006 On this day 2 years ago, I was making my rounds on all of the heavy metal forums that I frequently visited and still do today. When I went over the Annihilator forum,...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:51:00 GMT

Remembering June 19, 2004 + Various Comments

That was the day I arrived in TN from NY. I know, it was 4 years ago, it was a different time, and some may think I should be beyond it. It was a life changing experience that will never leave my memo...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:17:00 GMT