Guitar, Music, Skateboarding/Snowboarding, Tattoos, Nintendo. Magic the Gathering(tempest and below)
Pantera, Van Halen, Racer X, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, Megadeth, Nothingface, Project Steiger, Nonpoint, Suicidal Tendancies, Lamb of God, Bullet for my Valentine, The Haunted, Strapping young Lad, white Zombie, Motorhead, John5, 30 seconds to mars, Killswitch Engage, Faith no more, AC/DC, Doobie Brothers, David Bowe, Trivium, Soilwork, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, American Head Charge(minneapolis represent) Filter, Snot, Bleeding Through, machine head, Lost Prophets, Thrice, Blink182, Anthrax, lukas Rossi, limp bizkit, Incubus, Foo Fighters, Slipknot, Stone Sour, mudvayne, Ozzy, Velvet revolver, CKY, Sum 41, smashing pumpkins, hoobastank, trapt, three days grace, blindside, mad season above, Dream Theater, non-point, , Deftones, Linkin Park, red hot chilli peppers, Down, taproot, Tommy Lee, Motely Crue, Nirvana, Guns-n-roses, oasis, Black Crows, Santos and Johnny, Eddie Cochran, Los Lobos, Ritchie Valens, days of the new, radiohead, NIN, tool, perfect circle, Led Zeppelin, pearl jam, Rage Against the machine, Rammstein, papa roach, Disturbed, stevie ray vaughn, steve vai, rob/white zombie, aerosmith, beastie boys, sublime, system of a down,green day, offspring, alterbridge, eighteen visions, 311, Everclear, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, children of bodom, dragonforce, Hatebreed, Superjoint Ritual, and much more... fuck...
La Bamba, Swordfish, The Punisher, Italian Job, Lord of War, The good, bad, and the Ugly, LOTR Trilogy, Boondock Saints, Bad Boys, Borne Movies, Waking Life, Pirates of the Carribean, Pulp Fiction, Jay and silent bob strike back, Clerks, Underworld, The big Lebowski, The Fast and Furious, Donnie Darko, robinhood men in tights! LOL, Pantera home video pt3(yea!!) Metallica(year and a half)A.I., Star Wars, Braveheart, Willow, Neverending Story... and probably more... heh
CHINA BEACH(1988), Seinfeld, Wild boys, Conan O'brian, Prison Break & the Discovery Channel,
"All you need to know about the music business", "Confessions of a Record Producer", "Principals of Digital Audio", & "Guitar World"(more like a magazine, but hey) and last but not least.. maxim and Playboy cant live without it!
Musical Influences - Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Jake E Lee, Dimebag Darrell, Dave Mustaine and Al Petrelli, Paul Gilbert, Ken Steiger
Id like to thank my Mentors for helping me along my way in the music buiness, they are
Brad Schmidt, Ken Steiger, Don Dokken, Claudio Pasaventa, Paul Gilbert, Bobby Borg, and Joey Covington
Jens' Top 10 bands of all time(1. = best & 10. = least best)
1. Nirvana
reason: They are the band that influenced me to pick up a guitar. Their simplistic riffs gave me a chance to start off somewhere.
2. Metallica
reason: They challenged my determination on the guitar.. they perfected metal, and will always be remembered
3. Pantera
reason: Dimebag Darrell... comon, enough said...
4. Black Sabbath
reason: Black Sabbath created heavy metal....
5. Alice in Chains
reason: They had that Seattle grunge feel with a metal twist.. just up my alley!
5. Slipknot
reason: Futuristic Insanity.. The band resonsible for 1:bringing Metal and Thrash back into the airwaves, and 2:bringing musicianship/technicality back into modern drumming
6. Mudvayne
reason: The perfecters of modern odd time Signatures.. they are: the mad scientists of heavy metal
7. Lamb of God
reason: In a time era of wannabe metal music, lamb of god surfaces and reinstates technical guitar riffs/drumming
8. Killswitch Engage
reason: Bringing heavy breakdowns in Hardcore music alive.. yet, never forgeting the importance of a melody. Also they helped forge metal with classical/acustic guitar riffs. And keeping the pinched harmonic alive
9. Lost Prophets
reason: In this age of "new" music, nobody has better songwriting skills than them... Surf rock/metal guitar riffs, with intense vocal melodies/harmonies.. simply amazing!
10. Dream Theater
reason: the band responsible for flushing every musicians hopes and dreams down the toilette... haha, they are a musicians musicain.... the best of the best... sometimes too "over the top"
You Are 50% Weird
Normal enough to know that you're weird...
But too damn weird to do anything about it!