Mike - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Married, musician,2 kids,4 dogs, big house in Vermont. Used to be in a little band in Greenville, S.C., called ROSETTA STONE back around 1990-91. Kind of a Rush meets Queensryche type band. Quit the band, got married a few years later to my wife,Ammanda, and wouldn't trade it for the world! Originally from Lawrence, Ma.,grew up in the Beacon with my best buddy,Gonzo,KISS freaks till the end.Started playing bass in 1977,a Fender Musicmaster bass,aka "the tuba", learned all my Rush albums by 1981,then bought my first real electric at 16,(1979 Ibanez Iceman),then a Destroyer,a Les Paul Custom, a B.C. Rich Bich, a Warlock, an Explorer, and finally a Gibson SG, Joined a couple different bands,lost my way a few times, and then i met my wife in 1994 at Salisbury Beach. Moved to Peabody, Ma.for 9 years,then to Florida for 3 years, and finally to Lyndonville, VT. Life is good!

My Interests

My wife, my kids, my guitars, Teaching my kids how to play,collecting Hot Wheels(I must have 3,000 of them by now),KISS merchandise,Buying another Marshall, window shopping for guitars,Metal Music, my home, and living long enough to see a president in office who isn't a "doosh bag"(corrections not needed).And living long enough to see my kids grow old.

I'd like to meet:

KISS,Rush,Randy Rhoads before he died. I'm a big Randy Rhoads freak!

Music:

Kiss,Ozzy(mainly the Randy Rhoads recordings),Deadlock,To-mera, Chimaira,Battlelore, Steve Vai,Dream Theater,Becoming The Archetype,Rush,Distorted, Orphaned Land, Exodus, Alice In Chains,Arch Enemy,Anthrax,Draconian,Krypteria,Priest,Maiden,Aerosmith, Cradle of filth, Echoes of Eternity,Van Halen,Black Sabbath,The Who, Saxon,DevilDriver,Queensryche,Lamb of god,Riot, In this moment,Crimson Glory,Lizzy Borden,Annihilator,Children of Bodom,Nile, Yngwie Malmsteen,Dark Tranquility, King Diamond,TNT, Pantera,Metal Church,Early Metallica,megadeth,Joe Satriani,Byzantine, Slayer,Helloween, Machinehead,Rosetta Stone(do what?), Eric Johnson,King's X, Static-X, Chelsea Constable(Rules),Vicious Rumors, older Dio,Anyone who can shred,Too many to list, but absolutely NO RAP or anything remotely close to it! If i can't hear a musician playing...it ain't music! Too many good musicians in this world to afford myself the time to listen to anything less!

Movies:

Austin Powers(Goldmember rules!!!)Highlander,Lord of the rings trilogy,Spiderman(all 3),Shrek(all 3),This is Spinal Tap(Great, great movie), Bruce Almighty,Little Nicky,Waterboy,Hellraiser,300,Saw,Saw II, Saw III, Kiss meets the phantom of the park(yeah, it sucks,but it's still KISS),Toy Story,Toy Story II, Nightmare before Christmas,KISSology,Pink Floyd's The Wall,Edward scissor hands, Too many to think of...

Television:

Headbanger's Ball,Talking Metal on Fuse, American Idol,House,CSI, Spongebob, Courage the cowardly dog,Lidsville,Justice League,The Batman,and Spiderman(1990's cartoons),King of the hill,Family Guy,old Buffy reruns, That 70's show,Cops.

Books:

Guitar World,Guitar player,Guitar one, Guitar for the practicing musician,anything with Randy, Revolver, Metal mags in general. I don't do fiction unless it's a comic book or the book of Morman.

Heroes:

My wife, my mom, my kids...and then Randy Rhoads,Ace Frehley,Dimebag,Eddie Van Halen, Geddy Lee, Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Michael Angelo Batio, George Lynch, Mike Myers(friggin' genius), and the Big Guy upstairs for letting me be.