OK... time to update myspace. About me, you want to know, eh? Well, i play the dobro and lap steel guitar in Greensky Bluegrass, The Wayword Sons and a bunch of other side projects, too...
Now That that is out of the way, lets get serious! i like puppies, long walks on the beach, making an ass out of myself, skinny-skiing, girls, women, micheal jackson jokes, you know.. the usual.
I was born two months premature, which was a big deal in 1977. i started playing the drums when i was 9 years old, guitar when i was 12 (both at the same time for a few years. Had a lot of great friends in high school... was a "cool kid", won a few Pennsylvania State Championships in a lacrosse team. I turned into a hippie and started listening to a lot of grateful dead and, later, phish. My parents were cool enough to let me go to 30-some Dead shows, a lot of which were on school-nights, even a three night run. I still thank them for that. I've been on tour with phish and saw a hundred and thirty-some of their shows back before they became disco-ized. It was fun. it was always about the music for me.
I went to college in Colorado Springs, majored in Environmental Economics with an emphasis on Political Science so that i could save the world (my contributions have yet actually be proven to have saved the world, but its a long term study on a global scale so it may take a while). I moved To Fernie, British Columbia for a winter to be a ski-bum ... skied every day. Thought about becoming a pro-skier or a guide or a patroller, but figured i would rather do very dangerous things for fun than for money, it might cloud my vision. Moved back to Colorado, Durango this time and became the Executive Director of Friends of The Animas River, thereby using my degree and saving the world, or at least on little part of it. Working as an environmentalist is hard, you don't win battles very often, but you get lots of girls and money... just kidding.
Around this time, i went to Telluride Bluegrass Festival and walked by a dobro workshop one morning... people who would later become my heroes and friends were playing for about 100 people on a small stage. i was transfixed. this was the instrument that i wanted to play. it was like the electric guitar of the acoustic music that i was becoming hooked on. Two days later, i bought a dobro and started playing it. Now thats what i do for a living. Thats all for now, maybe more later... or at least some editing to make myself sound cooler than i really am (this is, of course all lies... i am actually a 300 lb black woman with internet access). Peace and Carrots,-Anders
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Here's Me and my band Greensky Bluegrass playing "King of The Hill" ast New Year's Eve:
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Here's Me and The Wayword Sons with my buddy, Travis. He's singing "Travellin' Teardrop Blues" with us:
