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CaptainAmazing

AKA Jonny Hollywood, Jonny Komptin, Jon Muthafuckin Siren, etc.

About Me


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I play drums, write music, and play in a few different bands. My main focus is on "Mankind Is Obsolete" www.myspace.com/mankindisobsolete I also drum for Kidneythieves, Dismantled, Hate Dept, 101 "A Depeche Mode cover band" and Pseudocipher. I have also filled in drums for The Hollywood 77's which features original Misfits drummer Joey Image. I used to drive a van that a lot of people are afraid of including my band because we tour in it and I only paid $700. It is a rickety piece of crap that idles kinda funny and the kicker is that looks like a child molester van but it doesn't have that moon window on the side that's a dead give-a-way. I might post a pic sometime. Someone bought it last year because it was the same model the A Team used and this guy was a fanatic. He flew out from Austin, TX the day I posted an ad in Craig's List and bought it for $1300, so I actually made money from having the van. I have many fond moments with that van though. I remember the sour looks we'd get as we'd roll up to a venue with that ride. It was pretty funny and scary at the same time when we couldn't turn left in the van. The owner before must have been on meth while working on the van in the front yard one day because he welded some sort of metal fixture near the driver side wheel which caused the van to be unable to turn left more than at a 10 degree angle. We still drove on it though and had to make three rights in order to make a left. In addition to that, the turn signal only worked if we had a screw driver or a large enough coin to make it happen. My last fond memory is us running out of gas on the Grape Vine going to Merced, CA. The van could only do 10 mph up mountains and would shake quite a bit as if it we're going to die any minute. I definitely had to reconsider any faith in a higher power I may have once had when we made it to the top. I'll definitely miss that van. I now am the proud owner of one of those sweet tour vans you see "big deal" bands touring around in. Rock on!
Oh yeah, this is pretty funny....my buddy Dreggs of Only Flesh put this together.

My Interests

Drums, writing music, playing shows with Mankind Is Obsolete, 101 "my Depeche Mode cover band," Hate Dept or Pseudocipher, going to shows, cooking, reading biographies about musicians that interest me, watching movies, ocean kayaking, Alaska "I haven't been there, but I plan on moving to Barrow Alaska someday." I like to look at maps too.. I have a lot of strange things that interest me. I look up exotic plants online...

I'd like to meet:

People that I respect and look up to.

Music:

Heavy Metal "The 80's shit and some stuff that leaked into the 90's...and I am not talking about Trixter or Firehouse....Stuff like King Diamond, Manowar or Iron Maiden," Death Metal "Only the roots, I'm old school," Industrial, Gawth, 80's new wave, Jazz "Mostly the 60's Blue Note artists," 70's Funk, 60's and 70's Soul, Trip-hop, maybe a few rap groups here or there, some Pop..ie) The Beatles, Elton John, Madonna, Classical music "Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Handel, Sibelius, Bartok, Ligeti, Stravinsky, etc.. I think I covered everything but country... I do like Johnny Cash.Here is where the ever growing list of bands will begin to develop as I remember to add them. Off the top of my head, here are a few...Al Green Android Lust BB King Babyland Bauhaus Bile Black Sabbath Combichrist The Creatures Cheap Trick Darkthrone Death Death Angel Depeche Mode Dimmu Borgir Din_Fiv Dismantled Early Man Elvin Jones Emperor Eric Dolphy Eyehategod Front Line Assembly Funkadelic Godflesh Gwar Hate Dept. Haujobb Helloween Hirax Ikonoklast Imperative Reaction Interpol INXS Iron Maiden James Brown Jack DeJohnette John Coltrane Judas Priest Kevorkian Death Cycle Kieth Jarrett King Diamond Ladytron Leonard Choen Modulate Mankind Is Obsolete Manowar Marilyn Manson Marvin Gaye Massive Attack Mastadon Miles Davis Mercyful Fate Melt Banana Moonspell nearLY Neurosis Nine Inch Nails Nosferatu Obituary Otep Paradise Lost Peter Murphy Portishead Prince Pseudocipher Rotersand Samael Skinny Puppy Slayer Slowdive Souixie and the Banshees Stereophonics Switchblade Symphony System Syn Talk Talk The Beatles The Bravery The Police The Ramones Tom Waits Tiamat Tricky TV on the Radio Tweaker Type O Negative VNV Nation W.A.S.P Wumpscut*Basically bands and artists that evoke strong emotional responses inside of me or have had some sort of an effect on me musically.

Movies:

I tend to like films by these guys: Stanley Kubrick, John Waters, Tim Burton, David Lynch. I also like a lot of comedy, horror, sci-fi, anime, and b-films. I think Ben Stiller is funny as hell in movies like Dodgeball, Zoolander, Starsky and Hutch. I am into Blade Runner like any person who wants gain industrial points should. I love cats and dogs but I tend to hate movies that focus on a talking cat or dog. It usually just pisses me off. To be continued..

Television:

Beavis and Butthead, The Discovery Channel, The Food Network, The Travel Channel. I only watch TV for a couple days out of the year when I visit my family. I don't have cable and I never watch TV aside from my yearly visit to Ohio.

Books:

I read the dictionary because I suck at spelling. I wish I had time for these ancient artifacts. It has been a while. My favorite book growing up was Benny Bakes a Cake. I like cake.

Heroes:

Bands like WASP, NIN, Gun's N' Roses, Skinny Puppy, Neurosis, Gwar, Manowar because they're the loudest band in the world....The bassist of White Lion because I thought having a red bass looked cool in the "Tell Me" video so that made me want to play bass initially. Also, I'll have to admit George Michael was an influence because I wanted to start playing music after I saw that video for "I want your Sex" when I was like 4 years old or something. My main hero is Dr. Rockso though. One more thing too, this would be pretty cool if it happened at one of my shows.

My Blog

Benefit show in Holbrook, AZ

Mankind Is Obsolete will play a benefit show on November 7 for our friend Lady Bear "aka Karen."  She booked our first out-of-town show and has continued to support our band in the Northern Arizo...
Posted by CaptainAmazing on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:03:00 PST

Mankind Is Obsolete’s music will be featured in 2 movies this year

Mankind Is Obsolete's music will be featured in two upcoming films this year.   If you live in the Phoenix, AZ area check out The Virgin Murders at The Chandler Cinemas.  For more detai...
Posted by CaptainAmazing on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:48:00 PST

Team Cybergeist update

I finished tracking drums for the Team Cybergeist collaboration.  Angel "Dope, Genitorturers, PIG, Crossbreed, etc.." wrote the music and the song features vocals from Toril of the Swedish electr...
Posted by CaptainAmazing on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:48:00 PST

Burritos

Okay, I just made this one and its an easy one on tour....Veggie Burritos.My whole deal with these recipes is cheap and easy...I know what you're thinking...  Okay step one: Get the food at a 99c...
Posted by CaptainAmazing on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:08:00 PST

Writing new music

So last night I went over to Scott's mom's place in Orange County and Scott, Natasha and I worked on music together.  It felt awesome to get back into the swing of things.  I have been uncre...
Posted by CaptainAmazing on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:45:00 PST

Recording Drums for Team Cybergeist

This weekend I'll be recording some drums/additional percussion for Team Cybergeist. Team Cybergeist is the musical solo project of drummer Angel of "Dope, PIG, former-Genitorturers, former-Crossbr...
Posted by CaptainAmazing on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:21:00 PST

Interview with me on Otto’s Daughter’s myspace page.

If you go to our friend's link below you can check out an interview done by Otto's Daughter lead singer Jacqueline in their blog section.  I talk about life on the road with "Mankind Is Obsolete"...
Posted by CaptainAmazing on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:18:00 PST

This is what I eat while I'm on tour.

I get a lot of bands asking what we eat on tour. I am going to give you a recipe for split pea soup that is awesome. In fact, I am making it right now because I am missing the road. I also eat wh...
Posted by CaptainAmazing on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:25:00 PST

I have a few tickets for The Kidney Thieves show without all of the Tickmaster charges

I have a limited amount of tickets for The Kidney Thieves show that I can sell to friends at a discounted price...basically without the million service charges that make a $12 turn into a $20 ticket.....
Posted by CaptainAmazing on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:15:00 PST

I will be teaching drums again and booking shows for other bands.

Now that I am back in LA and things are chill for the moment.  I am taking on drum students again.  I teach in downtown LA in the Chinatown area.  There is plenty of free parking here.&...
Posted by CaptainAmazing on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:31:00 PST