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About Me

"Funny thing 'bout bein' unemployed....the weekends don't mean quite so much....'cept ya get to hang out with yer workin' friends" Primus Now playing: Don Madison ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____ I know that it is common to write these things in the 3rd person...like it's not really ME writing all these things about ME....LOL....Sorry, but I just can't do it. Probably why I can never write a decent frickin resume either...yeah...Anyway, my real name is Don Madison. The "ChipShank" moniker, is really a fairly stupid story...came from my golf forum name...but it actually originated during MN Vikings playoff game back in the 80's. LOL Had something to do with Vikings place kicker Chuck Nelson, "shanking" a "chipshot" fieldgoal attempt to lose a playoff game. Resulting in my kicking of a small space heater across the room, striking our bass player on the shin.....and his subsequent rolling on the floor while holding his leg and cursing out Chuck "Chip Shank" Nelson......... Later on in life, it was a completely obvious choice for a Golf Forum name........As for the music end of things........ I've played guitar on and off, since about 1984-85 or so. Mainly with various incarnations of a metal band named Amorist in the Mpls, MN area from the mid 80's to early 90's. We started in the 80's Hair-Metal genre and quickly gravitated towards the heavier stuff like Metallica/Anthrax/Megadeth/Testament and Slayer, before moving on to strictly original tunes. We played parties, bars and local metal shows & such, but never really made it any farther than recording a 2 song demo at Brian Bart's Logic Studios......... I got burned out on the band scene and took a number of years off in the mid-90's and didn't really play at all, until the fall of 02' when I played "Bark at the Moon" with our old bass players band, during their Halloween show. That got me jump started and now I can admit that I'm a full blown guitar-addict once again. ________________________________________________________ Screw Around Soloing
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Member Since: 07/12/2006
Band Website: http://www.soundclick.com/donmadison
Band Members:Some of my latest designs;
Influences: My main influences are pretty much anything guitar driven, from Flamenco to Classical to Blues, Country, Rock & Metal. Actually, I love pretty much any & all forms of music....But all I know seem to be able to play...is metal. LOL There's really too many musicians to name here, but the main players that have inluenced me greatly over the years would have to be; Randy Rhoads, George Lynch, James Hetfield, Chris Poland, Marty Friedman, David Gilmore, Eric Johnson, Shawn Lane, Steve Morse, Eric Glass, Adam Jones, Jordan Rudess, Stu Hamm, Les Claypool, Justin Chancellor, Michael Manring, Danny Carey, Paul Bostaph, Reed Mullin, Andy Galeon, Maynard James Keenan, Peter Gabriel, Lajon Witherspoon......Honest to God musical goal, would be to be able to play guitar like an Eric Johnson/David Gilmore/Marty Friedman/Chris Poland hybrid....wrapped together with the brilliant creepiness of Eric (ENDER from Musician War) Glass and the uniqueness of Peter Gabriel's vocal approach.....
Sounds Like: Metallica, Testament, Anthrax, Megadeth, Forbidden, Slayer, Destruction, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Fates Warning, Heathen, Exodus, Savatage, Armored Saint, Soilwork, In Flames, God Forbid, Avenged Sevenfold, Shadow's Fall, Strapping Young Lad, Unearth, All That Remains and The Human Abstract. Also shreddy stuff like Friedman/McAlpine/Moore/Becker/Malmsteen/etc .....
Record Label: MadDog Records, INC, LLC, IMO, ROFL, WTF, LOL d:-P
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

On the Subject of Over-rated Guitarists

This may seen like it's out of left field for some people, but it's just my own little rant from a guitar forum, that was aimed at the basic ignorance of many in the new era of Shred-head ty...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:13:00 GMT

Some New (old) tunage on the player

I hadn't changed anything on my player for a long time now, so I figured that I outta throw some new stuff on there.....I don't have any "New" stuff per say....but I did have some old demo ideas that ...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Update

Just a little update on the whole new biz thing.I've got a new "main" email now; [email protected] and should hopefully have the accompanying website started up soon. I'm also working on putting...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:33:00 GMT

Blog??

I try not to "Blog" in public....it's a nasty habit....Usually a Maalox will do the trick
Posted by on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:18:00 GMT