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Madness Rides

What a Beautiful Day For Me to Die

About Me

is currently three windy city degenerates on a quest for global domination by way of the powers awarded by fame and fortune. Feel free to drop any or all of us whats on your mind at [email protected] We're also looking for two guitarists who are willing to play material thats been written. And no, we're not totally opposed to some creative input.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/06/2007
Band Members:
Ryan~ guitars

Sean~ Bass, Synthesizers, Lead Vocals, Drumbeats

Vanity~ Keyboards (whether she likes it or not) all around Bitch/Muse

Erin~ Official Madness Rides Sticker Girl/Guitar Polisher Extraordinare

Influences: Good Lord where do we start.....
Guns N' Roses
Motley Crue
Van Halen
Tool
Relative Ash
House of Pain
The Bangles
The Go-Gos
Slayer
Iron Maiden
Metallica (before Load)
Aerosmith
Bon Jovi
Boston
The Outfield
Enuff Z'nuff
Tori Amos
Pantera
Madonna
Beethoven
Journey
Electronica
Trance Techno
The Pretenders
Poison
Type O Negative
Def Leppard
The Drifters
Garbage
Deftones
Rage Against The Machine
Coheed and Cambria
Soulfly
Snoop Dogg
Dr. Dre
Eminem
Fear Factory
Ozzy
Johnny Cash
The Like
The Sex Pistols
Doxxy
Angelspit
Celtic Frost
Incubus
Cypress Hill
Portishead
Everlast
Led Zeppelin
Alice in Chains
Velvet Revolver
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
Fleetwood Mac
Jesus Are You Still Reading This?
And Dont Forget:
The Sum of All Our Life Experiences
Sounds Like: The by product of deep-seated emotional problems, those fleeting feelings of euphoria, and a healthy dose of anger set to a big booming bass drum
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Don’t Stop (accompanies the song of the same name)

  Finally, new music!  its been what?  a whole bunch of months?     So, i actually wrote a love song.  i'd sworn i wouldnt (i have my reasons!) but, i did. &nbs...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 21:21:00 GMT

In The Bass Player/Singers Opinion

  the new Nightwish c.d. "Dark Passion Play" is amazing.  and you should go buy it.  like, right now.  The new singer Anette Olzon, yeah i like her better than Tarja.  I think...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:29:00 GMT

Haha, I’m Brilliant

  What do you do when your pre-amp's tube dies?  You take your old tube compressor of the same brand, crack that sumbitch open and swap them out!   The compressor used a different model...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:24:00 GMT

On Everything

  The quality of my recording gear pisses me off.  it's own of those things that inadvertantly effects everything else.  Namely my voice.  If i sing out like i really want, it over...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:08:00 GMT

Incoming!

  The inspiration bug bit me in the ass pretty hard yesterday, and in the course of an afternoon and evening, i had almost a total song written, LYRICS INCLUDED.  that never happens.  ...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:43:00 GMT

Going Public With It

So i Finally put some music up on this site.  I made it my mission yesterday to get a bass solo done and loaded onto the page.  I'll probably make changes to it later knowing myself, but for...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:20:00 GMT

Riding Through Madness

  I have this vision.  Its been in my head since i was about 7, when i first saw the video for 'Welcome to the Jungle", and realized i knew what i wanted to do with my life.  The detail...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT