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Jack

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About Me

Weapons of choice: Fender Jazz (Geddy Lee Signature model) and Rickenbacker 4003 (MapleGlo with black binding and hardware). Both are equipped with Rotosound Round Wound strings. My "Taurus Pedals" are custom made by Ron Jarzombek (modified Midi-Step pedals by Fast Forward Designs), slaved to the master controlled by Ron, triggering samples from a Roland SP404. I use limited effects - just a Boss Super Chorus. I play thru an SWR Workingman's Series 2004 amp with a Rolls 31 band EQ. I have a Gallien Kruger 400RB as a back-up.I use Ampeg cabinets - an SVT-1510HE on the bottom and an SVT-410HE on the top.




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My Interests

I enjoy spending time with my wife, working around the house, playing with our pets, cooking, visiting family back in California, playing sports games on my Xbox, and watching the occasionally televised San Jose Sharks games. I also enjoy seeing the Dallas Cowboys LOSE to ANYBODY!HOW ABOUT THEM PATRIOTS?!?!?!AND THEM EAGLES!?!?!?! aaaaand THEM AWESOME NEW YORK GIANTS!?!?! Thank you, thank you, thank you for putting those over confident cocky bastards in their place! I really despise the use of bad grammar (see previous sentences and figure it out) Nothing like feeding a stereotype, eh? I am also having a blast playing bass - currently I am blessed to be a member of Texas' best RUSH tribute band Exit Stage Left, and I get to play with three of the most talented musicians I've ever seen! It is an honor and a privilege to be part of the band.

I'd like to meet:

Gene Simmons, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson... I'd say Neil Peart too, but I know he'd be too shy.What famous bassist are you?Ver2 You scored as a Geddy Lee You are Geddy Lee of Rush. You are very skilled at just about whatever you do and sing like you were just kicked in the balls. You have amazing bass lines and you will sing about anything: Cars, fictional people, the future, the past... Anything! Geddy Lee 92% Gene Simmons 75% Paul McCartney 67% Terry "Geezer" Butler 58% Roger Waters 58% John Paul Jones 58% Steve Harris 50% John Entwistle 42%

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Music:

RUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSH, Yes, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Spock's Beard, Dream Theater, Kansas, Lemur Voice, Styx, Kiss, Robin Trower, Van Halen, The Who and (did I mention I like Rush?) numerous others I can't think of right now.....

Movies:

Apollo 13, Walk the Line, Castaway, Meet the Parents, Braveheart, School of Rock, Slingblade... uh....ummm.... that's all I can think of for now... we don't go to alot of movies.

Television:

Heroes (our Emmy Award winning friend Vicky Phillips does hair on it), Family Guy, Survivorman, Mythbusters, Man vs. Wild, Meerkat Manor, The Dog Whisperer, Hell's Kitchen, The Simpsons, American Dad, Frasier, Mind of Mencia, Southpark, the Daily Show, Colbert Report, The Soup, Dirty Jobs, Deadliest Catch, Intervention, House, Seinfeld... just about anything on History Channel or Discovery... and 49ers football!!!!

Books:

Roadshow by Neil Peart (in my opinion his best literary work ever!),The Da Vinci Code & Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, Ghost Rider & Traveling Music by Neil Peart, Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen (Thank You Tina!), The Bible (NLT)

Heroes:

My mom, Jesus Christ, Geddy Lee, Jeff Berlin, Chris Squire, John Myung, John Entwistle, John F. Kennedy, Walter Cronkite, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, Dwight Clark, Ronnie Lott, Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds, Eric Wright, Keena Turner, Dwayne "Peewee" Board, Ricky Watters, John Taylor, Bill Walsh (RIP),George Seifert, John Glenn, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, Gene Kranz, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Gordon Cooper, Alan Shephard, John Young, Robert Crippen, Ron Jarzombek, the passengers of Flight 93, the NYPD (and the Port Authority PD) and NYFD, all the first responders to the attacks on 9/11/2001, all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, especially those who have paid the ultimate price.