Member Since: 12/19/2005
Band Website: machinesgonemad.com
Band Members: Save Me:
Written by Lenny V
Vocals-Darrel Kathan
Guitars, Bass-Lenny V
Two Just Like Her:
Written by Lenny V & Darrel Kathan
Vocals-Darrel Kathan
Guitars, Bass-Lenny V
Mother Nature:
(Wishing Well)
Vocals-Darrel Kathan
Guitars-Geoff Siebold
Bass-Matt Rendl
Drums-Dan Heim
Just Because & Drivin:
(Wishing Well)
Vocals-Darrel Kathan
Guitars-Geoff Siebold
Bass-Chris Siebold
Drums-Dan Heim
Influences: I Dig (in no particular order)...:
Kevin Reeves (My new favorite)
Jellyfish
Cheap Trick
Foo Fighters
Queen
Bleu
Derek Cintron
Big Wreck
Jet
The Click Five
Maroon 5
DelAmitri
Enuff Z'nuff
Third Eye Blind
My Chemical Romance
Sheryl Crow
Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
Fuzzbubble
Rage Against The Machine
Imperial Drag
Led Zeppelin
Marvelous 3
Butch Walker
Audioslave
Paul Gilbert
The Police
Span
Jason Falkner
Stevie Wonder
Tonic
...and other shit that rocks
Sounds Like:
Also visit MachinesGoneMad.com
Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone who is goofy and spontaneous but not combustable. Cool Myspacers in the Chicago area who are down to earth and maybe, occasionally like to rock out.
All of the people in my Top Friends are people I gave birth to!
About Me:
I'm happily married with 4 kids. Having fun is the name of the game but I'm a total geek. I have been programming computers since I was nine. I have a network and a server in my house. I make my wife back up her files to the server. Yes, it's that bad. To make things worse, I'm a Mac user. Good lord, protect your children!I spend my days programming computers for a 5 billion company but at night I take my pocket protector and pants off to sing in a party cover band called Machines Gone Mad! . I get to act like a nut and play with some really great performers. The songs on Myspace are old Wishing Well originals that were recorded in 1998. I'm currently working on some new solo material as well as re-mixing some old tracks. I'm also a total clutz but I manage to play soccer on a regular schedule without seriously injuring myself.
Interests:
: Singing, attemping to play guitar, playing soccer, working out, inventing drinks, drinking the drinks I invent, cooking, eating, computer hacking and doing super-geeky programming projects, developing elaborate and impossible stories and then actually acting them out, generally being ridiculous. I also have a frightful coffee problem. (See blog)
My Official Musician's Bio:
I have been performing since the late eighties all around Chicago. I
played in a Band called Wishing Well between '91-'00. We may have played your birthday party or Bah/Bar Mitzvah. When people say "Have you ever played at..." I
just blurt out "yes" before they can finish. I don't really know what
they are going to ask but I can't remember the names of every place I've
ever played so it's safer to just say "Yes, I've played there" because I
probably have. It's also possible that you have seen me in a Karoke bar
in the early ninties or an episode of Law And Order.
I have opened for Tora Tora, Gary Richrath (Reo Speedwagon) and Night Ranger, but not all
at once. I was nominated for "Best Rock Vocalist" in the Chicago Rocker
magazine in 1992. "Whip-a-de-do" you say. Where is that rag today? It's true that it's an honor just to be nominated.
Recently, I invented the left-handed pencil. Just kidding, but not
really.
I actually have no musical education, whatsoever. It's almost as if I have no business being in music at all.
I was too scared to sing in front of people until I was in
high school when someone told me I had a nice voice. At the time they
were wrong but it was a nice gesture.
Record Label: Not for me
Type of Label: None