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About Me

..I'm a simple guy just trying to make my way through life in these modern days. I have a wonderful wife who I just married on May 13th, 2006 after being together for over 8 years, and am in a heavy progressive alt rock band called Hollowshell . I started playing guitar when I was 14 to remobilize a broken finger picked up several other instruments along the way. I'm currently playing drums in my church band (as well guitar in my band) just for musical diversity. I love loud and heavy music and If you like loud and heavy music too you are a good person. I love seeing live music no matter how big the band is as long as it's well thought out and passionate. I'm very easy to get along with and really enjoy talking about music gear with people. If you really need to know more about me you can ask. Cheers!

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My Interests

Music, My Wonderful Wife, Money, the occasional Cap'n and Coke

I'd like to meet:

Just about every person in the Hard Rock/Metal industry. Most of all I'd love about 30 minutes just to chat and pick the brain of James Hetfield. I have to meet that guy before I die.

Music:

My musical interest lies mostly in my band HOLLOWSHELL. We're an alt prog rock band that will rock the hell out of you. No screaming or yodeling but actual singing. No lame ass 4 chord songs, but actual melodic structure. We know what the hell we're doing and we're ready to show you. www.Hollowshell.com for all extra info on us.

I have a huge CD collection, a lot of which I carry with
me. Some of the albums in my case are:
Dream Theater (all albums)
Liquid Tension 1 and 2
OSI (both albums)
John Petrucci- Suspended Animation
Symphony X- The Odyssey
Angra- Rebirth
Steve Vai (all albums)
Acoustic Alchemy- Arcanum
Queensryche (most albums)
Metallica (all albums)
Fates Warning (most albums)
Black Label Society (all albums)
Disturbed (both albums)
Godsmack (all albums... The new album is KILLER!!!)
Testament- Low
Tenacious D
Korn- (some albums)
Evanescence- Fallen
Rob Zombie- Best of
Filter- The Amagamut
Alice in Chains- Facelift
Alien Ant Farm- ANThology
Motley Crue- Dr Feelgood
Iron Maiden- Best of the Beast
Alter Bridge- One Day Remains
Fear Factory (all albums)
Skrape (both albums)
Soilwork (all albums)
Killswitch Engage (all albums)
Shadows Fall- No idea what the title of the album is
Lamb of God- As the Palaces Burn
Slipknot (First and Third Albums, the second one sucked)
Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
Hammers of Misfortune
Breaking Benjamin- We are Not Alone
Marc Seal- Transformation Seven
King Crimson- Discipline
Trey Gunn Band- The Joy of Molybdenum
Tourniquet- Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm
Anthrax- We've Come For You All
Rammstein- Sehnsucht ("Longing" for all you non-German speakers)
"Rock Star" Motion Picture Soundtrack (Steel Dragon ROCKS!!!)
Finger 11
Slayer- South of Heaven and Reign in Blood
The Darkness- both albums
Pantera (all albums)
Into Eterninty (both albums)
Kings X (all albums)
Foo Fighters- The Colour and the Shape
Creed- Greatest Hits
Velvet Revolver- Contraband
Taxiride- Imaginate
Taproot- Welcome
Cold- Year of the Spider, A Different Kind of Pain
Crossfade
Europe- The Final Countdown (quite possibly the worst 80's album ever)
Candlebox
Nonpoint (all albums)
HammerFall- Crimson Thunder (Hearts on Fire!!!!)
Prodigy- Fat of the Land
Los Lonely Boys
Dream Evil- The Book of Heavy Metal
Muse- Absolution
Seether- Karma and Effect
Derek Sherinian- Black Utopia
Avenged Sevenfold- City of Evil
Journey- Greatest Hits
Dave Weiner- Shove the Sun Aside
Dark New Day- Twelve Year Silence
Michael Buble- It's Time
Wolfstone (Scottish rock w/ bagpipes!)
Disturbed- Ten Thousand Fists
Coheed and Cambria- Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV:...
Children of Bodom- Trashed, Lost and Strung Out (EP)
Ozzy Ozzborne- Bark at the Moon
James Labrie- Elements of Persuasion
HIM- Dark Light
Edguy- Rocket Ride and Hellfire Club
Trivium- Ascendancy
Static X- Start a War
Dave Koz- Saxophonic
Enya- Amarantine
Flyleaf- Flyleaf
Nevermore-This Godless Endeavor
Tool (all albums, ESPECIALLY 10,000 DAYS!!!!)
Fall Out Boy- From Under the Cork Tree
30 Seconds to Mars- A Beautiful Life
Gunther- Pleasureman (Oh yeah!!!!)

That's what I have right now. I rotate and buy new CD's pretty often and this equates about a third of my collection. Can you tell I like music?
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Movies:

The Lord of the Rings trilogy without a doubt. There's nothing better than 3 movies that have extended versions equaling over 10 hours of movie time.

Television:

Yeah, like I have time for television (but if I do I sometimes catch CSI or whatever is on Comedy Central).

Books:

The Book of Heavy Metal!!

Heroes:

John Petrucci and James Hetfield. They are the reason that I play guitar and I would love to see these two guys work together on a project one day. And more recently, Gunther.

My Blog

Chris' Song of the Day 5/21

Fricken monday... Although the time flew by and I don't feel I got a ton accomplished. Anyways, it's not like ya'll give a damnation. Chris' Song of the Day for today is:"What I've Done" by Linkin Par...
Posted by HollowChris on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:56:00 PST

Chris' Song of the Day 5/18

Ok, I'm so exhausted right now that I can barely type, but I'm here for you, so Chris' Song of the Day for today is:"Astronomy" by Blue Oyster Cult (as performed by MetallicA)Metallica covered this so...
Posted by HollowChris on Sat, 19 May 2007 04:59:00 PST

Chris' Song of the Day 5/17

Well I don't know about you but I'm in a good mood today. :D Gonna go make some metal tonight, and am damn well looking forward to it. Chris' Song of the Day for today is:"Anesthetize" by Porcupine Tr...
Posted by HollowChris on Fri, 18 May 2007 04:40:00 PST

Chris' Song of the Day 5/16

Eh, no excuse this time. Just got lazy on my few days off. So, Chris' Song of the Day for today is:"Stinkfist" by ToolI wasn't a Tool fan until their album "Lateralus" came out, and then I was instant...
Posted by HollowChris on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:52:00 PST

Chris' Song of the Day 5/9

Ok, so I missed yesterday because I had to move on a little earlier, but that's ok because now I have a suprise for someone in particular. :D But I digress... Chris' Song of the Day for today is:"Fear...
Posted by HollowChris on Thu, 10 May 2007 04:54:00 PST

Chris' Song of the Day 5/7

Crappy Monday everybody! You know, the only good thing about Monday is the fact that Heroes is on tonight (and it's gonna be a damn good one SO YOU BETTER WATCH!). Anyways, I had a song running around...
Posted by HollowChris on Mon, 07 May 2007 03:44:00 PST

Chris' Song of the Day 5/4

Well, I guess if it wasn't for yesterday's song of the day the metal would have left the blog this week. Oh well, I guess my brain just needed a little bit of a break from the mele. So Chris' Song of ...
Posted by HollowChris on Sat, 05 May 2007 04:47:00 PST

Chris' Song of the Day 5/3

Chickety check dis out boi! Chris' Song of the Day for today is:"Them Bones" by Alice in ChainsI've been listening to this song a lot lately and have been growing an all new appreciation for AIC. I ne...
Posted by HollowChris on Fri, 04 May 2007 04:56:00 PST

Chris' Song of the Day 5/2

Ok, gotta get it done quickly, so Chris's Song of the Day for today is:"Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" by Elton JohnDT did a killer cover on this that is on the Change of Seasons EP, and a f...
Posted by HollowChris on Thu, 03 May 2007 04:59:00 PST

Chris' Song of the Day 5/1 (the shame of it all...)

Ok, so my dedication to doing this Blog (well, dedication when I remember Or am not too busy to take the time) has brought me too a croSsroads. You see, today'S song is one that I feel is Meaningless ...
Posted by HollowChris on Wed, 02 May 2007 04:25:00 PST