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Mark Schenker

I try, I really do!

About Me

I've been playing music since I was about 14, started out on guitar as most bass players do. I play in two bands, Funny Money with Rob Galpin, Steve Whiteman and Jimmy Chalfant, check out our web site here . See us on MySpace too. I also am fortunate enough to play bass in one of my all time favorite bands, the mighty KIX ! Check out that site here . Also see our KIX MySpace site. And man do I love the bass! I am such a student of the instrument, always looking out for new sounds, techniques and riffs from my bass idols that I've never heard before. My amps are Trace Elliot, my live basses are Warwicks. I have a nice collection of basses and guitars, some vintage Rickenbackers, a few Fenders and a bunch of Warwicks among many others. I love Warwick basses and I was recently chosen to be an official endorser - check out the Warwick International site, click on News. Also from the menu, click on Endorser | International. I'm honored to be associated with a great company like Warwick.




Funny Money's new CD Stick It! is out! I got to work with mega-platinum rock producer Beau Hill while he was mixing our record - it really was a thrill to work with the guy who I always, whenever I recorded, tirelessly (and hopelessly more often than not) attempted to make my stuff sound as good as his records do! You should hear our CD, it sounds amazing! (Eternal thanks to Beau)

I love my work and am as passionate about computers and technology as I am about music. Fortunately, nowadays, you can have both computers and music. Everybody uses ProTools to record music now. There is nothing I like better than to be able to leverage my computer skills for recording and songwriting inspiration and to make better sounding recordings.


My Interests

Computers, recording, playing in my band Funny Money with my good friends Jimmy, Rob and Steve, baseball, reading, writing songs, my day job is very challenging and satisfying.

I'd like to meet:

Jack Bauer

Music:

I'm looking at iTunes to see what I've played the most recently:

My Chemical Romance
Bullet For My Valentine
AFI
Avenged Sevenfold
Children of Bodom
Eighteen Visions
Hinder
Wolfmother
Rush
Soundgarden
Led Zeppelin
The Who - fucking rools!
Audioslave
Lynyrd Skynyrd
STP
Roth Van Halen
Green Day
Aerosmith
Steve Vai
Motley Crue
The Exies
Slipknot
Rhino Bucket - rawks!
Frank Zappa
Velvet Revolver
Stevie Ray
AC/DC
KIX
Robin Trower
Pink Floyd
Paul McCartney & Wings
Parliament Funkadelic
Infectious Grooves

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Apocalypse Now, Bond, wiseguy movies, Vegas, Goodfellows, etc.

Television:

Deadwood (see above), 24, The Sopranos, CSI, Monty Python, Discovery, Nat'l Geo, History, Military Channel and BBC America. I'll watch any baseball game when I've seen whatever's on the other channels.

Books:

The Gospel of Judas, Holy Blood-Holy Grail, The Hot Zone - Richard Preston, The Great Influenza - John M. Barry, Dry Guillotine - Rene Belbenoit, All Shannara books - Terry Brooks, it's so cliche now but I've been reading Tolkien since I was 12, I must still be 12 cuz I still read Tolkien, Level 4~Virus Hunters of the CDC, books about the Vietnam War, Classics like: The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas, anything by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. Books to me are like records, I can read the good ones over and over again just like listening to a favorite record.

Heroes:

John Entwistle, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, John Bonham, Billy Sheehan, Steve Vai. Outside of music, I'd have to say my dad, my grandfather - never made more than 12 grand a year, never drove a car - raised a fine family and died a happy man.

MY BORING DETAILS

Status: Very VERY UNavailable
Here for: Networking and cuz everybody else is, so why not?
Orientation: Straight
Hometown: Northern Virginia
Smoke / Drink: NO / NO

Mark's Schools

Berklee College of Music
Boston, MA
Student status: Busting my ass!
Degree: In progress

2007 to present
Gaithersburg High School
Gaithersburg, MD
Graduated: 1983
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma

1982 to 1983
Augsburg American High School
Augsburg, Germany
Student status: Alumni

1979 to 1982