About Me
I'm 39, and have been playing since I was about 15. I currently play in the Detroit area band "KrankNine". Check out our site for some band songs, pics, and upcoming shows. I also have two children, 6 and 9, who are the loves of my life, and am very proud of.
www.myspace.com/krankninedetroitThis will be my personal site to talk amps and guitars, and post goofy little bits of music when I can.My buddy Nick got a guitar from his mom, then taught me Iron Man and Smoke On The Water. I was hooked, and got a $15 garage sale Magnum a few months later. We have both been tortured by an insatiable lust for gear ever since. My first learning experience was buying the Randy Rhoads and Jimmy Page Hot Licks tapes. I then took lessons for about a year, from Craig Luckich (?), at the Music Box in Utica. Craig had a fondness for the Eagles that I did not share very much at the time (but have come to appreciate). I just wanted to learn Ozzy songs.One of my first band experiences was in my late teens playing with Andy Halterman, and Robert Ebeling up in Romeo. Bob later went on to play drums for a rapper he went to school with (Kid something or other). Dumb ass me, I goofed on him for playing rap music at the time. In the early 90's, Bobs car broke down, so I gave him a ride to the White Room studio in Detroit, and got to lay down a solo on Kid Rocks "Fire It Up" e.p., on the song, A Country Boy Can Survive.Some of the other bands I've played with are New Breed, Wild Heart, (keep the great names a comin', yikes) Espionage, Broken Home. The two that I am most proud of would be Soul Circus and Kranknine. We did alot of traveling in Soul Circus, staying in some of the nicer $25 motel rooms around MI. We would also play a grueling 7 night, 4 set a night stint at the Rusty Nail. With my day job, and those shows, I would be a walking zombie by the end of the week.
