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About Me

I play music. My first band was a 3 piece from San Mateo, CA called VINTAGE 46. I sang and played guitar, we mostly played in our basement..but sometimes were lucky enough to play a friends house, and even sometimes made it to the local community center...or even the infamous Gilman St in bezerkley.
VINTAGE 46 was short lived, just like adolescence...later, two of us went on to form a band called THE FORGOTTEN ....
THE FORGOTTEN ...my blood. My sweat. My tears. We busted our fucking ASSES. And all for rollin' around in the mud and the blood and the beer. We too were products of a budweiser soaked basement, but this time we made it all over the world, and with vinyl and cd's to boot. Sometimes playing to only the local town drunks...and sometimes sharing the stage with GBH, Cocksparrer, or even Slayer...to name a few. Sometimes in minivans, sometimes on a bus, but always with 1000 percent energy and heart...and friends.
I grew up on RANCID. I'm from the Bay. What do you do when your best friend calls you up and says Lars Frederiksen wants you to play guitar in his band? You say SHIT YES and drink yourself into a corner of disbelief. LARS FREDERIKSEN AND THE BASTARDS killed your town and fucked your mothers. Sometimes with mohawks...and sometimes with crank 'staches. Enough said.
Then motherfucking Skinhead Rob calls you up and says Tim Armstrong wants you to play with TRANSPLANTS ...a band I already worshipped from just shoebox demos. Add the best drummer in the world and an abundance of originality...and once again you have people dancing...pogo-ing and beating the shit out of each other in a summer parking lot.
Playing in 3 bands at the same time is a dream...and crazy...and hard. So naturally you go back to step one and play in one band. 'Step one...slit my throat...step two...play in my blood.' I started singing again full time and MERCY KILLERS was born. Step three, make a record...
Now theres technology, so you receive an email this time. Travis and Mark from Blink 182 are starting a band and need a guitar player...what the fuck? As if it could get stranger than fiction at this point. One hour playing in a hot studio, a LOT of chain smoking and nerves...a few conversations in an atrium..and +44 have a fourth member.

My Interests

music. family. life.

I'd like to meet:

Loners, misfits, outcasts... free thinkers, those that contribute...

Music:

Movies:

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Heroes:

inanna. johnny cash. strummer.

My Blog

Wyclef Jean, The Goblet of Gods, and the Battering Ram

Greetings Humans,Ok so I'm on tour with Juliette and the Licks right now. At the moment we're in Spain, but we just finished a short run in Australia, including the MTV Australia Awards. Now I'm not r...
Posted by CRAIG on Thu, 08 May 2008 05:12:00 PST

Lick me

Greetings Humans,Guess who’s going on tour? ME BITCHES! Juliette and the Licks asked me to play guitar for them on their upcoming tourdates. For those of you that don’t know, its the kick ...
Posted by CRAIG on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:30:00 PST

The real American gangsters

Greetings Humans,I'd like to thank everybody for the birthday wishes. I'm not too much of a birthday celebrator, and usually hide from the world. Thanks to myspace, I'm frickin exposed! Normally I try...
Posted by CRAIG on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:35:00 PST

More +44 stuff, No MK tour, and Obama-rama

Greetings Humans,Thanks so much to everybody that donated to my friend Scarlett and bid in the auction. It was super successful and her family is stoked. THANK YOU! 2 signed +44 posters are still left...
Posted by CRAIG on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:37:00 PST

Sleeper Cell

Good Evening Humans,Man, does ANYBODY watch Dexter? I'm not a fan of television...but this is some great stuff. Good cast, great characters, smart plots. I highly recommend it. The season finale is ne...
Posted by CRAIG on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:07:00 PST

Apathy is not my friend.

Good Afternoon Humans,I can already see there has been a huge response to last nights blog. Kickass. I can't wait to read everybody's thoughts. Believe it or not I even enjoy extremely conservative ri...
Posted by CRAIG on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:48:00 PST

American Plague

Good evening Humans,I'd like to thank everybody that reads my nonsense and takes the time to write me back. Definitely had some interesting replies to my late night banter, to say the least.More than ...
Posted by CRAIG on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:50:00 PST

Psyyyyych

Hello All,Its been a while since I've gone off on incoherent tangents via the form of a myspace bulletin. I've been dealing with siezures, sickness, infections, myoclonic jerks...you name it! Its been...
Posted by CRAIG on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:08:00 PST

GUITAR LESSONS

Want to learn how to play your favorite songs on guitar? Are you a beginning guitar player looking to take your playing to the next level? Maybe you're a musician that needs a new approach to song wri...
Posted by CRAIG on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:20:00 PST

Strip much? - Reno, NV

Greetings Humans!Last night in San jose with MERCY KILLERS kicked a trillion asses. We came, we saw, we rocked the fuck out. There was a massive circle pit by the second song, and we dont play extreme...
Posted by CRAIG on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:07:00 PST