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About Me

Band Bio? Hmmm, well, there is no band per se. There is only myself and Dave Pine from Pinetrax Recording Studio. I write a song and then present it to him and from there try to muster up the cash to record it.It is actually rather strange that my sound is Hip Hop based as I grew up hating rap for the most part and was an avid fan of progressive metal. But one night I was asked by a friend if I'd be interested in playing some piano over a few beats for a local rapper. I obliged. And after about a year of freestyling and co-writing rap tunes, I eventually developed the hybrid that would become Stamina.On this site you are not only going to hear my music. If you look, you'll notice that I write quite a lot of blogs. The reason for this is, in a nutshell, because of the fact that both music and literature are my two favorite methods of reaching out to people. If it weren't for those two things, I would be more of a recluse than I already am.I am not trying to be famous. I am not trying to be different. I am not even trying to compete with other artists. I am simply putting myself out there in hopes that the right people will listen and read what I have to say. By "right people" I mean ANYONE whose interest can be peaked by more than just whatever reality show is on TV. I want to meet deep people, interesting people. And through my music and writing I hope that they'll want to meet me too.

My Interests

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Member Since: 11/26/2005
Band Members: Who Is Stamina? (real name: Dan Kelley) It has always proved a difficult task to define my style, to fit it into a neat box to which can be attached a convenient label. It has been my lot in life, regardless what I am doing, to remain elusive. This has never presented a problem for me, as I am less concerned with fitting in as I am with breaking out. I feel it would be a pity to limit the creative process to one genre alone; the spectrum of human experience is far too vast to be restricted to one exclusive mode of expression. To do so would be tantamount to an attempt at fitting the entire ocean into a water bottle. So, who is Stamina? It depends on who's listening. My songs can be likened to a river that is about to fall into the sea: it takes one glance back at the terrain it has traversed and then, just before it falls into the ocean, it sings its song to the path it took to get there. Then there are times when my songs are simply hymns to the ocean itself. We are all of us defined by where we have been and rarely by who we are; so, if you wish to know where I've been, listen to the music. If you wish to know who I am, then listen to the silence between the notes.
Influences: Nine Inch Nails. Tupac. Dream Theater. Disturbed. Bone Thugs. Eminem. Simon and Garfunkel. Skinny Puppy. Nas. 311. Fear Nuttin Band. Saliva. Pink Floyd. Amethystium.
Sounds Like: You tell me-you're going to anyway-I do not classify myself. I simply write howsoever the spirit moves me at the time. Classification is for those who play it safe...I am all about taking risks. So to hell with pigeon-holes! But for better sound quality on some of the songs that appear on MySpace visit www.pinetrax.com
Record Label: Pinetrax Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Travesty of Miscommunication

If I may be allowed a moment to rant... I have spent most of my life trying to master the art of communication. I did this because I saw from an early age the importance of conveying exactly what you ...
Posted by STAMINA on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:37:00 PST

Your Friend the Enemy

Your Friend the Enemy (An Anectdote About You)By Daniel A Kelley You are sitting here. You are collapsed into the content of thought. You are submerged in a quicksand of time and you are struggling ...
Posted by STAMINA on Thu, 22 May 2008 07:15:00 PST

The Discontented Stonesmith

The Discontented Stonesmith (A Parable on Recognition of Value) There was once a man who hewed stones from rock. His labor was very hard and he labored much, but his wages were slight and he was not...
Posted by STAMINA on Thu, 22 May 2008 07:02:00 PST

Ecocide Is Suicide

Ecocide Is Suicide By Daniel A. Kelley The Earth revolves slowly, rocking us gently, ever sustained by the warmth of her womb. Magnificent orb in the light of the moon, spanning lifetime after lifetim...
Posted by STAMINA on Thu, 22 May 2008 06:58:00 PST

A Brief Riposte on Hypocrisy

A Brief Riposte on Hypocrisy By Daniel A. Kelley (Excerpt from three-part essay, entitled Through a Glass Darkly) When I was a teenager, I was taken by my friend's grandmother to a Catholic church to ...
Posted by STAMINA on Thu, 15 May 2008 08:50:00 PST

Tutored By an Angel.

Tutored By An Angel 2000By Daniel A Kelley Have you ever seen the sky in the North in winter---round about early December---and marveled at the crispness of the naked trees against the clear b...
Posted by STAMINA on Thu, 15 May 2008 08:59:00 PST

Cupid's Garden

Cupid's Garden By Daniel A. Kelley 9:00pm 12/28/00 There is a garden east of Troy, Where God finds angels to employ, Where tulips earth their nests of joy, And Cupid's work one can't des...
Posted by STAMINA on Mon, 05 May 2008 11:19:00 PST

Teatime in the Garden of Gethsemane

Teatime in the Garden of Gethsemane (The Significance of Suffering on the Mystical Path)Note: The following blog has been written from a metaphorical standpoint and is in no way posited from any part...
Posted by STAMINA on Mon, 05 May 2008 11:04:00 PST

A critical look at social degeneration.

(A Critical Look at Social Degeneration.)By Daniel Kelley You see them everywhere: children of the "digital age." It is tragic but true that nowadays most people cannot be spurred into constructive a...
Posted by STAMINA on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:37:00 PST

Song of the Beloved

Song of the Beloved By Daniel A. Kelley 1:26pm 4/15/2001 Angel of nature draw near unto me, My heart is a flame and it leaps forth to greet you! My eyes are held open by the fingers of longing, Moist...
Posted by STAMINA on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:49:00 PST