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Topher Taylor

About Me


Things have been crazy, but in a good way recently. Austin is officially the city I call home now and life is a journey with a surprise around every corner these days, but that's a great change of pace and I'm more ready for life's surprises now than I've ever been. I'm looking for other artists to jam with so if you are interested in starting a project of any kind, feel free to drop a line. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy!!
New Album featuring BOON (Christopher Taylor) and 20 other artists is out!!!! Get your copy of "Eleventh Hour Confessions: South Vol. 1" today!!!! Brought to you by Quickstar Productions, "Eleventh Hour Confessions" brings you some of the best up and coming "emo" artists from today's music scene. "Emo" has taken over the mainstream music scene recently, but it also still has a powerful lurking presence in the underground. I, personally was very impressed with the material on the album and encourage everyone who likes this type of music to pick up a copy today.
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WHAT'S UP!?
This is maintained by Chris Taylor. The purpose of this is to connect with friends / fans and network with artists who are interested in new projects. Chris has officially made his transition to Austin, TX to further his education in Commercial Music Management. He also is a guitarist / vocalist / student producer with a home studio who has live performance experience in various clubs / bars in the Houston area from Club Live! Downtown to Pennison's Sports Bar in Katy, TX. Equipment: Marshall JCM2000, De Armond M-75 Electric, Yamaha Compass Series Electric Acoustic, Boss Pedals, Shure Wireless Mic, 2.8 GHz P4 overclocked to 3.4GHz on an Asus P4S800 board w/ 1 GB of PC3200 DDR Ram, SB Audigy 2 Platinum 5.1 Digital Sound card with optical / MIDI / Mic Inputs and Outputs, Soundmax Digital backup / playback Sound Card, Video Capture Card, ATI Radeon X1600PRO 512 MB DDR2 Video Card pushing a 19" Widescreen, a 15" Flat Panel Display and a 32" TV, Reason 3, Cool Edit Pro and of course the Mackie DFX-6. BOON used to work out of a Studio at the Rythym Room Rehearsal Studios, but now Chris' home is the BOON studio. Feel free to contact Chris if you are a musician looking for projects or have any questions.
Peace!!!
-Chris

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/09/2005
Band Members: "Untitled (Sheri's Song)", "Under the Milky Way Tonight", "Hit It", "Gin and Juice" and "Opium" (Archive) are solo recordings by Chris Taylor.

"Time to Shine" and "Sausage Fest" are Chris Taylor on Guitar and Josh Fanguy on Vocals.

"Under the Milky Way Tonight" - originally recorded by The Church.

"Gin and Juice" - is of course the great Snoop Dog.

"Opium" - originally recorded by Marcy Playground

Lyrics for "Untitled (Sheri's Song)" by Sheri Boudreaux

Thanks for Listening!!

Influences: Music:

Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, NIN, Green Day, Beck, Ben Harper, Ben Kweller, Dave Matthews, Weezer, The Cure, Pearl Jam, Goo Goo Dolls, Foo Fighters, Blues Traveler, Bush, Counting Crows, Dashboard Confessional, Dispatch, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Jack Johnson, Elliot Smith, Nirvana, Cake, Guns 'N Roses, Phish, Sublime, Old 97s, Whiskeytown, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Bob Schneider, Reel Big Fish, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, O.A.R., Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Deftones, Zwan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, 311, Gorillaz, PHISH, Widespread Panic, Keller Williams, Willie Nelson, String Cheese Incident, Finch, Beck, Soul Coughing, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, Thrice, G-Love.

Philosophical:

Kundun (the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet), Dr. Ben Carson, Bono, Karl Marx, Martin Luther, Thomas Jefferson, Stephen Hawking, and too many more to list.

Sounds Like: Green Day, Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Quote . . .

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."   - Ernest Benn
Posted by on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:55:00 GMT

Check out this event: An Evening w/ BOON and Triptych

Hosted By: Jonathan GuezWhen: Wednesday Jul 19, 2006 at 7:00 PMWhere: Salento2407 Rice BlvdHouston, AL 77005USDescription:Chris Taylor playing / opening with / for Jonathan Guez and Triptych. Improvis...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:04:00 GMT

Quote . . .

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.  - H. Mumford Jones
Posted by on Fri, 26 May 2006 14:44:00 GMT

Federal Judge orders labels to submit records to court in NAPSTER case

    Remember Napster?  How could one forget!?  It was such a great idea a new way for people to share and distribute music and be turned on to new artists freely had emerged....
Posted by on Wed, 03 May 2006 09:39:00 GMT

Chernobyl - 20 years later . . . read something . . . you'll be smarter.

I don't remember learning about this in school - I know it happened.  It's just one of those things in our recent history that, due to recent developments in technology has never happened before....
Posted by on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:37:00 GMT

Women = Problems . . . maybe!?

So I was having a conversation with a good friend who will remain anonymous for the purpose of this blog not necessarily being the most popular to all who happen across it, but i'm not sure it's not t...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:41:00 GMT

Houston: I'm too loud and it can't keep up . . .

So I learned two valuable lessons last week that have further convinced me that I need to vacate Houston in favor of another city that is more conducive to what I am trying to accomplish in life. ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:30:00 GMT

New Writing - Conundrum

Conundrum   An old soul and a young one gravitate. We're a blue straggler in this universe of chaos. Her smile glows in my memory and heart. She is my epitome of beauty in a small package. ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:48:00 GMT

6 months on MySpace, 1000 listens, stepping back into the live performance mode . . .

So it's been an interesting six months . . . I've changed my mind about three times as far as what i'm doing from here and where i'm going (back and forth from ideas i've had for years), but my mind ...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:41:00 GMT

ASTROS!!!

So the season has started again!  Anyone who knows me is aware of the fact that i'm a total baseball junkie so this is just a reminder to anyone who has any desire to go to a game ever and doesn...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:23:00 GMT