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Drew Creel

About Me

..I live in Austin with my beautiful wife (Melanie) and two fat but lovable little beagles.I've been playing guitar for about 14 years. I love all kinds of music, jazz, rock, metal, whatever. Some of my favorite guitar players include John Petrucci, Michael Romeo, Frank Gambale, Rusty Cooley, and Steve Vai. I used to play guitar for a kickass progressive metal band called Meyvn .I proudly endorse Diamond Amplification, Morley Pedals, Intellitouch Tuners, and Coffin Cases:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/11/2004
Influences: I enjoy listening to all kinds of music, mostly progressive/power metal. Some of my favorite bands/artists are: Dream Theater, Symphony X, Opeth, Rush, Queensryche, Angra, Circus Maximus, Nevermore, Evergrey, Meshuggah, Sonata Arctica, Ayreon, Dragonforce, Shadow Gallery, Metallica, Megadeth, Stratovarius, Spiral Architect, Pain of Salvation, the list goes on and on...Also these kick ass texas bands: Shrapnel, Whore of Babylon, Vesperian Sorrow, By Any Means Necessary, Azrael's Bane, Magistral, Outworld, Stride, Six Minute Century, and Eden's Twilight!Me and Melanie:

Record Label: none
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Update / New (old) songs

Thanks for all the messages inquiring about my current musical activities. I took a break for a while - it was nice. I may have a new project starting up soon - if things work out with the people I ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:35:00 GMT

I am no longer in Meyvn

Yeah, I quit last weekend.  It was a tough decision, but the band just kinda lost momentum after ProgPower and during the subsequent recordings.  Its been 5 years of practicing 2-3x a week, ...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 22:28:00 GMT

New Song - Something To Prove

New song!  I actually wrote this for an instructional video - I might be doing a guitar video with Chops From Hell, so I wanted to come up with a song to start it with.  It turned out ok, there's waaa...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:10:00 GMT

Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight

So I went to see the "Spike and Mike Sick and Twisted Animation Festival" last night at the Alamo Drafthouse.  Most of the animations were pretty bad and unoriginal (seems like it gets worse every yea...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:12:00 GMT

Chops From Hell

The guys over at Chops From Hell (http://www.chopsfromhell.com) asked me to do a column!  This is a huge honor for me, because I've been visiting that site for years.  So I did a column on two handed ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:49:00 GMT

Research That I Like

Drink alcohol, live longer - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16173568/wid/11915773?GT1=8816Co ffee is healthy - http://www.webmd.com/content/article/80/96454.htmVideo Games are good for you - http://news.b...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:05:00 GMT

New Song - Hangliding

Finally a new song!  Its been slow going because we also did a new Meyvn song (which is way, way better than this one) for the CD re-release.  At this rate I'll enough songs for a three...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:50:00 GMT

Iron Meyvn, or The Night We All Wore Spandex

So last Friday night we played at the Dirty Dog off 6th street during the Republic of Texas biker rally. Just the fact that it was the first night of the biggest, rowdiest bike rally was crazy enough...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:28:00 GMT

Snakes on a Plane revisited

I went and saw X-Men 3 last weekend, and lo and behold there was a trailer for my future favorite movie: It was the best thing about the movie. (although the "I'm Juggernaut, bitch" bit was pretty f...
Posted by on Wed, 31 May 2006 08:26:00 GMT

New song uploaded - tap dance

Posted a new demo version of an original song... its called "The Tap Dance" for now because... well, there's lots of tapping in it.  Its a pretty rough demo, I plan on redoing it and another...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:13:00 GMT