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I am the guitarist for the international indie heartthrobs, SPLITSVILLE, based in Baltimore, Md. We have just released our sixth album, "Let's Go!: The Best of Splitsville" in June '07 on PopBoomerang Records (Australia) and Zip Records (San Francisco). Tours of Australia, UK, plus various US dates are in the works.
Over the last few months, Paul Krysiak (also in Splitsville) and I joined up with former Myracle Brah and High Llamas drummer Joe Parsons to form The Lucky Few, a pop power trio with the ambition of Queen and Jellyfish, the volume of AC/DC, the decadence of '80s Hollywood, plus the presence and bombast of any stage heroes who dared to entertain. Imagine River Phoenix ODing outside of the Viper Room while "Helter Skelter" blared in the background. The Lucky Few would be its musical equivalent. We started recording in August and hope to have something out this year. With any luck, we'll be back in Europe and the UK drinking heavily and redefining what it means to be a damn good rock band.
I am also in a few drunken, energetic cover bands that regularly play in the Baltimore area. In addition to playing every Thursday at The Waterfront Hotel (www.waterfronthotel.us), you can find me with The Taylors, the Remainders (members of Splitsville), and Loose Caboose (with Craig Nachodsky and various guests) playing music ranging from Prince to The Pixies and beyond. If you're in the area, check my calendar for show dates. And if you've been to Canton or Fells Point in the last seven years or so, you've probably seen me playing then bought me a Corona or SoCo Lime. That's the deal: I provide the soundtrack, you buy me drinks and shake ya ass...
You can find my bands and other projects in my Top Friends: Splitsville, The Lucky Few, The Taylors Band, plus Paul Krysiak, Gavin Elder and John Nichols.
UPCOMING SHOWS:
EVERY THURSDAY @ The Waterfront feat. various guest musicians each week, 9pm
Sat 4/12- The Elbo Room (Chicago) w/SPLITSVILLE, 8pm
Thurs 4/17- Waterfront w/Loose Caboose, 9pm
Fri 4/18- Piv's(Timonium) w/The Gavin & Tony Conflict, 9pm
Thurs 4/24- Waterfront w/The Taylors, 9pm
Fri 4/25- Piv's(Timonium) w/The Gavin & Tony Conflict, 9pm
Thurs 5/1- Waterfront, 9pm
Thurs 5/8- Waterfront, 9pm
Thurs 5/15- Waterfront w/Loose Caboose, 9pm
Thurs 5/16- Damon's(Hunt Valley) w/The Taylors, 9pm
Thurs 5/22- Waterfront w/Loose Caboose, 9pm
Thurs 5/29- Waterfront, 9pm
Thurs 6/5- Waterfront, 9pm
Thurs 6/12- Waterfront, 9pm
Fri 6/13- Liberatore's (White Marsh) w/Double-Wide Joyride, 9pm
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Check out these clips of Splitsville performing on the Washington, DC program "MegaHertz"
"Dotcom" from the album 'Repeater'
"Forever" from the album 'The Complete Pet Soul'
"Manna" from the album 'Repeater'
Here's "Yearbook" from the album "Ultrasound" taken from a performance on the Spanish music program 'Radio3'

My Interests

Great food, great wine, and relatively unimpressive beer. Cooking makes me feel useful and mildly cultural. Stupid people completely piss me off...unless we're drinking and equally intoxicated--at which time, I'm smitten and think you're fantastic company. Playing guitar brings me immeasurable joy and playing live is the ultimate performance art where if you're there to experience a GREAT show, you'll never be able to easily describe it to anyone who wasn't there. And every show is unique. My personal goal is to make our shows impossible to successfully recount, leaving each satisfied witness and participant with only one review to pass onto friends: "You MUST go to see them." Obviously, I have a deep, deep appreciation for all types of music. I absolutely adore Rachel. Skipper will someday grow up to be the greatest dog of all time. I love computers and fear the people who use them. I'm a total jock and would be 300 pounds if I didn't stay somewhat involved in sports: football, baseball, basketball, softball, and tennis. I'm also fascinated by and spend too much time with architectural design, cars, computer graphics, and dreaming about how I could spend over a million dollars on musical equipment.

I'd like to meet:

My evil twin so that we could work less and play tricks on people. I hope to never meet any of my idols---I know that they would only let me down. However, it would have been goddamned cool to have met Miles Davis in the 50's. Or the 60's.

I wouldn't necessarily want to meet her, but I'd love to fall asleep to the sound of Minnie Riperton singing "Loving You" to me.

And if I ever meet my evil triplet, we would have one ridiculous band.

Music:

Prince, Beck, Portishead, Sade, KISS, The Posies, Lenny Kravitz, The Cure, Jamiroquai, PJ Harvey, Earth Wind & Fire, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Outkast, Sinead O'Connor, Coldplay, guava stain, Morphine, Charlie Hunter, Cyrus Chestnut, Miles, Coltrane, Monk, Seal, Q-Tip, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, The Mars Volta, Bad Brains, Public Enemy, Helmet, David Bowie, anything my close friends tell me is worth more than a listen, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Old 97s, Wilco, Ray Charles, Ministry, Missy Elliot, Mother Love Bone, B.I.G., Oingo Boingo, Pete Yorn, Whiskeytown, Smashing Pumpkins, The Misfits, The Cardigans, Muse, Al Green, The Police, Bryan Ferry, Pigeonhed, Suzanne Vega, Tom Petty, The Cult, RHCP, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Joan Osborne, Diana Krall, Beastie Boys, The Golden Palominos, Lara St. John, Sweetback, Bob Dylan, Jonatha Brooke, Andrew Bird, Steve Vai, Elvis Costello, Faith No More, Jay-Z, George Clinton, The Beatles, The Cars, Soundgarden, Black Eyed Peas, Primus, Jane's Addiction, The Pixies, Franz Ferdinand, Bjork, Nine Inch Nails, Weezer, The Flaming Lips, Ween, The White Stripes, Jellyfish, Maxwell, D'Angelo, Strunz/Farah, Erykah Badu, The Brothers Johnson, Buddy Guy, Heart, Bauhaus, Bootsy Collins,....and on and on and on. There is so much to learn and appreciate when you really dive into different music genres. To love it is to see and hear it live.

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, Glengarry Glen Ross, Clue, The Pink Panther series, Swingers, Lost in Translation, Out of Sight, Dazed & Confused, American Beauty, Get Shorty, Talk Radio, The Player, Sex Drugs and Rock n Roll (Eric Bogosian), Raising Arizona, Midnight Run, The Witches of Eastwick, Noises Off, and Waiting (respect the service industry and respect The Goat). There are dozens of other movies that are impossible for me to turn off if I pass them while flipping channels. If I revealed those titles you would think that I'm a complete idiot.

Television:

HBO rocks the haus: The Sopranos, The Wire, Entourage, The Larry Sanders Show. Ali G is uncomfortably hilarious for about 15 minutes and then I have to turn it off out of sheer embarrassment. Reality television will be the absolute decline of civilization as we know it and that worries me to no end. If there's any justice in this world, it will be a thing of the past, but, alas, people are fucking morons.*
*("Celebreality" is not nearly as nauseating as others because--after all--celebrities chose long ago to make their lives open books. What bugs me are those average people who make fools of themselves for attention then have the nerve to be surprised when their lives are irreversibly ruined. Eh...serves them right.)
Weeds, Alias (up thru season 3), The L Word, Lost, and Greg the Bunny. Life would never be complete without SportsCenter. I fucking hate commercials so watching network TV makes me want to break things. TiVo is changing this a little, but I abhor watered-down programming and being force-fed useless products. Despite my thoughts about wasted time, I can occasionally spend countless hours engrossed in Xbox360. Go figure. Hey--toys are better nowadays and I'm a Toys R Us kid.

Books:

Biographies only--mostly music biographies. I live in a fantasy world, yet fiction bores and depresses the Hell out of me. I also love anything (plays or screenplays) by David Mamet or Elmore Leonard. I do enjoy plays by August Wilson.

Heroes:

My grandfather, Prince, Richard Pryor, line-crossing and groundbreaking musicians, and great songwriters. The three hardest things to do in life are following the rules, writing a great song, and being someone's hero. The world needs more heroes. If you can inspire, influence or motivate others, that's just as important.