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Randall

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About Me

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very own MySpace Layouts I fight back the darkness with the wonderous beauty of music. I love to play guitar, bass, piano/keyboards and sing. I'm a working unit by day and a songwriting phantom by night. I have four bands that I currently play in; EPOCH (Epochrock.net), SONGQUEST (www.Songquest.us), THE HITS & VALARIEN & ELOHYMN. EPOCH & SONGQUEST are all original progressive rock bands that I play guitar in, also some vocals. THE HITS is a cover band that I play bass in and VALARIEN & ELOHYMN is a original progressive metal project where I switch between bass, guitar, keys and vocals. When I'm not doing music I like to watch sci-fi/horror movies, oil paint, listen to music, read, write, hang with good friends and sleep.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with an undying passion to create art.

Music:

Progressive Rock! Some of my favorites are RUSH, YES, old Genesis, IQ, Arena, Pallas, Pendragon, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Opeth, Marillion, Van Der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill, Fish, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Saga, Judas Priest, Dream Theater, Shadow Gallery, Iron Madien, Dio, Jethro Tull, Kate Bush, Bjork, Goblin, Queensryche, Peter Gabriel, Chopin, Spock's Beard, The Watch, Citizen Cane, and local favorites like Hazerfan, Fractal and Cloakwheel.

Movies:

Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead, Aliens, Terror Vision, Suspiria, Burial Ground, Re-Animator. But my favorite all time is the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Television:

Star Trek, Ghost Hunters, Space 1999, Stargate SQ1, Dark Shadows, Outer Limits, Blake's 7, Red Dwarf, anything Sci-fi or horror related really.

Books:

Too many books to list, here's some of my favorite authors. H.P. Lovecraft, Dan Simmons, Poe, Tolkien, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Issac Asmov, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Karl Edward Wagner, Ramsey Cambell, Clive Barker, Ambrose Bierce, Brian Keene, F.Paul Wilson, Dean Koontz, Stephen R. Donaldson, William F. Nolan, David Schow, Robert R. McCammon, Ursula K. Le Guin and many many more.

Heroes:

People who accept others without judgement, we judge ourselves enough. People who do as they please as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Steve Howe, Randy Rhoads, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks, Stan Lee, George Romero, Geddy Lee, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Freddy Mercury, Jon Anderson, Peter Nicholls, Spock.

My Blog

Crawling Out Of The Musical Shadows:

Greetings Humans! A gray fog is slowly lifting.  The cobwebs in my head are dissolving.  The crust of Doritos have fallen out of the corner of my unconscious mouth.  The last remnant ...
Posted by Randall on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:21:00 PST

New tunes on the new player:

Greetings all! I've got some new things brewing here on my page that I thought I should explain.  First off I have a new music player that's pretty cool!  I had wanted to add some tracks fro...
Posted by Randall on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:33:00 PST

Just a Phantom on the Ghost Winds of Change:

 Hello dear friends and mutants!!! I've lagged on my blogs lately.  But for good reason...I used to write about the happenings of my bands (Epoch & SongQuest).  But now that bo...
Posted by Randall on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:40:00 PST

Rising From The Ashes Stronger Than Ever:

Greetings friends and music lovers! It's been musical limbo the last month.  We moved our studio and are now finally ready to get back to the grind.  It's been tuff for me trying to figure o...
Posted by Randall on Sat, 26 May 2007 06:26:00 PST

Resurrection of the Soul Through Music:

Hello music lovers!!! Sorry for the blog delay, but things have been picking up musically as of late.  First of all on the EPOCH front we've been fighting the final details of our track, "Coloss...
Posted by Randall on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:14:00 PST

A Word From The Musical Trenches:

Greetings everyone out there in Cyberspace!!!  All is well in Epoch land.  We had our weekly studio secession last night and things are coming along well.  Serious mixing is a slow and ...
Posted by Randall on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:33:00 PST

A Return To The Fortress of Solitude:

Well I'm back!  I'm back from my Florida vacation and I feel totally re-energized.  I'd like to give a special shout out to all my band bros for tolerating my departure during our important ...
Posted by Randall on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:10:00 PST

Tornadoes in Florida:

This is from a journal entry I wrote on Feb.1st during my 1st night of vacation in Florida:  It's 2:00am Florida time and I can't sleep.  Outside the brilliant flash of lightning cracks thro...
Posted by Randall on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:01:00 PST

New Works in Progress:

Just got setteled into my new house and have finally got to a point where I can start working on the new guitar tracks for the song, "Collosus".  It's the 6th tune for the album we're recording.&...
Posted by Randall on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:44:00 PST