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Mike Gerbitz is on Joe Guerra’s NEW RECORD!

About Me

Mike Gerbitz has been playing drums since he was 18 months old. He found his early inspiration from his dad's collection of old vinyl LP's and 45's that introduced Mike to Motown and early rock and roll. Mike vividly remembers seeing footage of KISS at an early age: the image of Peter Criss' drums rising up off the stage while pyrotechnics were exploding made a lasting impression on the young drummer. Mike started playing in school bands when he reached the 6th grade and continued to study the instrument through Jr. College. After leaving school he played in various local bands including EDGAR (cover band/jam band), HOLDING TRUTH (original pop/jam band), SILENT LUCIDITY (Queensryche tribute band), LIQUID FIRE (original contemporary rock band), DAVID STAGL & THE BURNING DAYLIGHT (original singer/songwriter rock band), TOM KOPYTO (instrumental shread guitar project) and KNOTEYE (original heavy rock band). In 2002 he was asked by guitar virtuoso REX CARROLL to play with the legendary Christian metal band WHITECROSS for the last in a series of reunion shows which took place in North Carolina.Currently Mike plays for CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH in St. Charles, IL.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/10/2005
Band Website: www.myspace.com/mikegerbitz
Influences: Where to start? Ian Paice, John Bonham, Stewart Copeland, Nicko McBrain, (early) Lars Ulrich, Charlie Benante, Chris Layton, Butch Trucks & Jaimoe, Mike Portnoy, Jason Rullo, Vinnie Colaiuta, Vinnie Paul, Ted Kirkpatrick to name a few.
Sounds Like: Boom, crash, bang, etc.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

NEW RECORD! Joe Guerra's "Free To Fly"

I'm happy to have recieved my copy of Joe Guerra's "Free To Fly" album!  This is a record that was a long time in the making (just ask Joe!).  I was priviledged to play on and it turned out great.  Jo...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:22:00 GMT

Paul Vogrinc: "Return To Grace" out now!

Hey Everyone- I just got my copy of Paul Vogrinc's "Return To Grace" album the other day.  This is a record that I played on almost two years ago and didn't know if it was ever going to see the l...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:01:00 GMT

WWW.IGNITEYOURWORSHIP.COM

Please check out www.igniteyourworship.com for information on the IGNITE live CD & DVD release. Blessings- Mike
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:29:00 GMT

IGNITE Live CD out NOW!!!

The IGNITE Live CD from Christ Community Church is out NOW!  It was a great night of inspiring worship and I think we managed to capture a lot of the vibe on this recording.  Please visit ww...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:56:00 GMT

New video

Hey all- I had some spare time the other day, so I decided to see if I could shoot a short video with some decent audio to put up here as a bit of a promo for my playing.  I think it came out alr...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:54:00 GMT

New songs in the player

I've loaded a few new tunes in the player: "On An Island" by Ivari, "Mark On You" by Knoteye and a rough drum track for a song that never got recorded.  Here's a breakdown of the songs: "On An Is...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:46:00 GMT

Life...

I appologize that I never made a big announcement, but my son Ian has been here for almost three months now!  He was born on August 26th.  I can't believe how much he's grown and changed in ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:39:00 GMT

Moving on...

Well, after three years it was finaly time to leave my last band.  I've just taken a gig with an 80's hair metal cover band to get out playing again (I've got my first official "rehearsal" with t...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:48:00 GMT

Big changes...

Well, it's one week till the wedding!  This is going to be an interesting year for me: getting married, moving to Wheaton, AND... ...we're having a baby! Yep, you read it right: Karla and I ...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:10:00 GMT

I'M ENGAGED!

OK, I have to preface this with the fact that I'm most definatly not a huge fan of sappy love-laiden blogs due to the fact that they typicaly test my gag reflex, but I do want to make m...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:35:00 GMT