So here's the deal... You could sit here and read this and listen to some pretty cool music (maybe I'm Biased ok?) and you could stay on this page while your doing it or you could just hit play and then hit Alt-Tab and listen while you work! Wow why didn't I think of that? Oh wait I did...Anyways If you really want to know how I got my start it's cause I really wanted to play guitar when I was in the 4th Grade but My mom made me learn piano first... (thanks mom) one of the best things she's done for me as far as music is concerned. well that and always being there to read my lyrics and say now that just doesn't work to the wierd chord progressions... so back to the story. I did learn piano. I started when I was in 4th grade and then got better until late 5th grade when it just wasn't cool anymore and I completed the book that I was in and all that jazz that I hadn't gotten interested in yet. So I put it down (bad idea) well 6th grade rolls around and i dug the keys back out and started learning new stuff again. 7th grade i was getting pretty decent on the keys while reading and playing by memory and I picked up the Harmonica and then the Fiddle. What I didn't realize until later is that i really despise the sound of both of these instruments unless played in the style of blues or jazz but alas i didn't like either of those yet either. fast forward a year I got better at keys and fiddle practicing quite a bit. I moved to a village for 8th grade with my keys and learned a bunch as the village was boring and keys are not. 9th grade rolls around and i was a gamer( =lame gamer cause i played the old but not old school stuff) and back at harmonica... started listening to everything (blues and jazz and sweet stuff) 10th grade rolls around and so i started getting interested in guitar and then it all clicked one afternoon as to how piano and guitar worked together and why and then i got a 5 minute introduction to bass guitar and started playing on a worship band that summer. then that fall I started a band called Project Revolution with Vincent Lee and Ethan Howe... Good band but it was short lived as I had yet to decide that I enjoyed bass and that is what we needed.to be continued...short and dirty versionMike Congdon picked the guitar up for the first time as a previous musician (pianist) in 2005 and started playing, writing, and learning theory more in depth that before. Currently he plays Bass, Guitar, and Piano as well as singing for himself and in an A'Capella group called LETUAS (Letourneau University A'Capella Singers. While not all of the songs he sings outside of church are notably "Christian" songs, all of them do have a deeper meaning that has somehow influenced his decision to write, play and record them.Thank You for reading. If you would like more information feel free to message him here on myspace...
