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Ace

Vicarious Exsistence is a Fucking Waste of Time

About Me

I will destroy the human race with my guitar. I am so fucking metal seeing my true form would make you shit your pants. I play death metal, doom metal and grindcore. I used to host a TV show called L.A. Metal, but I was too metal for television. I fucking hate television anyways. I smashed mine. I play guitar and I work as a professional guitar tech to support my guitar habit. I hate the government as well. Corrupt assholes the lot of them. Fuck both parties, they are waging a war not only on the poor but on the Mother Earth herself. I've played guitar in more bands that you've never heard of than I can name. I just love to play.

I am now playing guitar in a new band called The Beyond , without a doubt the loudest, most crippling blackenedstonergrind that your weak ears will ever worship until they are ruined to the point where our music echoes in your head forever, deafening those around you and leaving a perma-smile on your face because your life has been distilled to pure metal worship!!!

I also served four years in the United States Marine Corps as an Infantryman. I carried an M16 through the desert and the jungle and was basically in charge of about ten dudes with rocket launchers and C4. Too bad nobody in the real world needs shit blown up. Now all I do is live guitars. I fix guitars for a living, I tour with bands as a guitar tech, I write music and tour with my band and I just jam to pass the time. I am learning the Hammond organ, Wurlitzer piano and drums and harmonica this year. I also did my first session work as a bass player(I know you care). I am also a strict vegetarian. If you want to give me shit about my beliefs, you can go fuck right off.

My Interests

Death metal, doom metal, any music with balls, be it the Allman Brothers or Retch. Antartica(I will someday stand on the South Pole), mountaineering, backpacking, SCUBA diving, snorkling, swimming, drowning. I also like documentaries. The enviroment. Outer space. Horror movies(real gore movies, not this Scream shit). Spirituality. Cultures my own has destroyed. Blasphemy. LSD.

I'd like to meet:

God, Mother Earth, Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin and Linnea Quigley!!

Music:

Ok, just like the new high school downtown, this list will be large and incomplete... Bolt Thrower, Black Sabbath, High On Fire, Disgorge(US), Led Zepplin, Cephalic Carnage, Them, Anal Blast, Anubis Rising, Napalm Death, sunnO))), the Beatles, Iron Butterly, Robert Johnson, Beethoven, Slayer(pre-South of Heaven), Pink Floyd, Incantation, Smashing Pumpkins, The Who, Ike & Tina Turner, Cannibal Corpse, Sleep, Helloween, Voivod, Angelcorpse, Blood Ritual, dISEMBOWELMENT, Intronaut, Queen, David Bowie, bongzilla, Neurosis, Sepultura(pre-Roots), Emperor, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Pelican, Watch Me Burn, the Scorpions, Guns 'n Roses, AC/DC, Teeth of the Lions Rule the Divine, Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal, Mastodon, Talking Heads, Immortal, Blue Cheer, At The Gates, The Lords of Altamont, Hellshock, Exodus, the Doors, Celtic Frost, the Band, Bob Dylan, Queens of the Stone Age, Krisiun, Tchildress, Cattle Decapitation, His Hero Is Gone, Dead Kennedys, Fetus Eaters, Immolation, Deicide, Prototype, Steve Vai, Judas Priest, Exit-13, Walter/Wendy Carlos, Wagner, Possesed, Mortician, Carcass, Blue Oyster Cult, Borknagar, Ox vs. Thunderbird, the Gathering, Them, Three Dog Night, TOOL, Phil Spector, TON, Joan Jett, Monster Magnet, Priums, Frank Zappa, Iron Maiden, Booker T and the MG's, Motorhead, George Harrison, the Seeds, the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Decapitated, Lost Soul, Lord Weird Slough Feg, Splatterhouse, Eat the Living, Warhorse, Boris, Twilight, Falkenbach, Suicidal Tendencies, David Gilmour, Dire Straights, Slash, Bob Marley, Ted Nugent, Exhausted Prayer, Soilent Green, Into Eternity, the Bomboras, Down, Supertramp, Bob Seger, Alice In Chains, Green Jello, Johnny Cash, Starchild, Prince, Death, Joe Satriani, Bonnie Raitt, Hank Williams, Joe Cocker, SOD, Cryptopsy, Sly and the Family Stone, Weedeater, Dio, Jethro Tull, Masters Of Reality, Django Reinhardt, Les Paul, Chet Atkins, the Beach Boys, Splatterhouse, Skarp, Deeds Of Flesh, Decrepit Birth, CROM!!!, Death, Hate, Goatwhore, Vomitory, Ludicra, Magthar, Azalia Snail, Devo, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Big Elf...

Movies:

I HATE big budget movies. The Matrix sequels were the worst movies I have ever seen. The last three Star Wars were a joke. I would much rather see what Tom Savini can do with a few buckets of corn syrup and food dye than what Jerry Bruckheimer can do with two hundred million dollars. I like REAL horror movies, Fulci, Romero, Buttgereit, anything with Christopher Lee as Dracula, Day of the Beast, shit like that. I also really like outdoor documentaries. Stuff like IMAX, National Geographic, Nova. My favorites are the ones about far away places like Antartica and Outer Space. I like the documentaries on explorers of the harshest places on Earth, men like Hillary and Shackleton. I expect one day I too shall have a great adventure.

Books:

Anything non-fiction with lots of maps and pictures.

Heroes:

Ernest Shackleton, David Gilmour, Ben Franklin, my Dad, myself(I am proud of what I have done with my life), my grandfather Harvey Chapman, my grandmother Maryanne Chapman, my Mother, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Galileo, Albert Einstein, Hunter S. Thompson, Larry Flynt, Kyle Severn, Bob Dylan, the "dude", Bender Bending Rodriguez, Anton LaVey(he convinced kids that they needed to give him $100 to be "evil", LOL!!! Truth is, the man had style, and was an amazing composer), Jimi Hendrix, Zac and Steve the list goes on...

My Blog

Danzig/Blackest of the Black tourdates: Oct-Nov 2008

I'll be guitar tech for both Danzig and Dimmu Borgir this tour. See you out there!!   Oct. 09 - Ft. Laudersale, FL @ RevolutionOct. 10 - Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock LiveOct. 11 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabern...
Posted by Ace on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:57:00 PST

Back from Danzig, In Studio, Moving, Let’s Make Plans!!

OK, I am back from the Danzig tour we just did. I am now officially in the Danzig camp as guitar tech/stage manager. I've got a few mentions of working for other bands, but I don't like putting stuff ...
Posted by Ace on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:41:00 PST

Danzig tourdates

2007 LIVE DATESOCTOBERTUES. 23 BALTIMORE, MD. RAMS HEAD LIVEWED. 24 PHILADELPHIA, PA. ELECTRIC FACTORYTHURS. 25 WORCESTER, MA. PALLADIUMSAT. 27 NYC, N.Y. NOKIA THEATRETUES. 30 LAS VEGAS, NV. HOUSE OF...
Posted by Ace on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:39:00 PST

Edguy Tourdates! 9/11/07 - 10/8/07

Come visit me on tour!!..>..>Sep 11 2007 8:00P ..> Webster Thearte Hartford, Connecticut ...
Posted by Ace on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:26:00 PST

"Good Kills" Story of my Marine Corps unit in Iraq

OK, this is an article written by Peter Maas for the New York Times magazine. The unit that he was embedded in is 3rd Battalion 4th Marines, based in 29 Palms, California. My old unit, which I served ...
Posted by Ace on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:09:00 PST

I'm a sucker for a woman...

I'm here at work today and the sweetest woman came in needing the strings changed on her nylon string Martin(an OLD guitar!). She must have been in her 80's and she talked of playing guitar on her par...
Posted by Ace on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:13:00 PST

I have a home!

Actually it's more than just a dream. It's a recurrent object in my psyche. It is like a giant cathedral. Beyond giant, it seems infinite. I can travel through countless dimensions while observing thi...
Posted by Ace on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:02:00 PST

To all my friends...

To all my true friends, old and new, you guys are the best friends anyone could ever ask for, and I love you all. I am sorry that I don't get to spend more time with every single one of you, but there...
Posted by Ace on Thu, 11 May 2006 12:00:00 PST

NEWS FROM THE HAMMERFALL TOUR!!

Hey everyone, Ace here!! I am just outside our nation's capitol in Springfield, VA. We are playing here tomorrow night, so we have a day off today.The tour so far has been going great!! All three band...
Posted by Ace on Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:30:00 PST