"Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh Uncontrollably & Never regret anything that made You smile." - Ruslana Korshunova
Hey, how's it going? Name is Joseph Ellis, but Joey will do just fine. I've been playing guitar since I was 8 years old. Started writing my own material my Senior year in High School at Arts Magnet, and I've been doing it ever since.
The last two bands I've been associated with have been the most successful, with the first one actually being the line-up for the second, though it never got that far. MINDTHREAT was a band conceived by myself and Rick Cartwright (now in CALL THE CIRCLE) to be a twin-guitar band in the traditions of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Queensryche as well as early Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer. We were pretty much just coming into our own when a sequence of events doomed us to never reaching those goals. After the fall of that band, I decided that, if I did everything myself, and everything went to hell, I was the only one I could blame for it. With the addition of Ronnie Trent lending his extreme vocal talents, 10 KINGDOMS was finally resurrected, only this time it had the legs of the beast I had wanted to create before, and it still stands today, ready to kick the ass of any true metal-head! As of January 2009, plans are still in the works to get back in the studio. As always in the music business, it's only a matter of time and money. One I already have, the other I'm working on it, I'm working on it. Stay METAL!
A PARTIAL LIST OF MY EQUIPMENT
AMPS
1983 Marshall JCM800 Lead Series 100watt Head, modified and Frankensteined by myself and my good friend Carl Zabbia at
Audio Electronics, Dallas TX
4x12" Genz-Benz Bottom Cab with 4 - 70-watt Celestions
SWR Working Man's Bass Amp (Killer for direct line-in)
RACK
Audio-Technica Wireless Unit
Korg ToneWorks DTR-1 Strobe Tuner
Alesis QuadraVerb Multi-Effects Unit
DOD 31-Band Analog EQ
Rocktron 2-Channel PRO HUSH Noise Gate
(2) Rack-Rider Power Conditioners (1/lights)
STOMP
Morley Steve Vai "Bad Horsie" Wah Pedal
Whirlwind "Selector" A/B Box
Electro-Harmonix "Electric Mistress" Flanger (Original)
Electro-Harmonix "Small Stone" Phase Shifter (Original)
Vesta-Fire Stereo Chorus
ART X-11 Midi Foot Controller
Guitars
1985 B.C. Rich Custom Shop Handmade "Stealth", Black w/Kahler Flyer Tremelo, Sperzels, and one Tom Anderson bridge pick-up
1998 B.C. Rich Warlock, Japanese, Black, Stock
1998 B.C. Rich Mockingbird, Japanese, Stock (for the moment)
1998 Yamaha "P-Bass Style" 4-string Bass, pick-up mods
1984 Yamaha 6-string Acoustic (similar to an F315)
1998 "Who in the Hell made this?" decent enough Classical
RECORDING GEAR
I MIGHT LIST THIS LATER, MAYBE NOT
C’ya around, Joseph Ellis
“If you’re doing it for the money or fame, don’t do it. If you’re doing it because you want women in your bed, don’t do it. When it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep doing it until you die or it dies in you. There is no other way and there never was.â€
== Charles Bukowski ==
"Anyone who falls in love with me needs to realize that music is fucking number one. When you say that to a girl, she wonders if that means she is number two. No, man, Heather was number one also. I had two number ones, and any girl I meet has to get used to riding shotgun with me and the music. Because I need a partner, not a leader. So hang with me and my music and we will be all lovely." == Tommy Lee