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Ernest Aloysius

About Me

I grew up surrounded by Music Row writers, producers and musicians. Naturally this made me want to do anything, and I mean anything, other than corporate cheese country- including kill myself, if I had to. Fortunately it hasn't come to that.

I left in 1999 and went to Hampshire College, where I studied music and alchemy. After 4 years of being a dirty hippy in an adult kindergarden liberal fantasy world, memories I will cherish for the rest of my life, I did 2 years of hard time at Berklee College of Music, almost completely ruined my creativity by overdosing on knowledge and information, and dropped out to come back to Nashville and try to forget everything I know about music and just PLAY!!!! DAMMITTT!!!!~

So here I am back in Music City trying to figure out how to put a band together without losing drummers to corporate cheese country artists that pay better. AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/05/2006
Band Members: Currently:

Ernest Chapman: vocals, guitar, piano, songs, production, engineering

Jessica Friedman: bass, co-writing, guitar, background vocals

perpetually exploding drummers: David Heyer, Noah Hungate, Charlie Morgan, Jerry Roe, Tripp Dudley

Eric Kinney: piano, co-production, cowriting

Austin Hoke: cello (live)

PREVIOUS UNWITTING ACCOMPLICES HAVE INCLUDED: Matt Hungate, Jack Obrien, Anton Jungherr, Brandon Morgan, Niel Mason, Matt Stewart, Ben Morton, Matt Montgomery and that other guy who looks like me and used to sell cutco knives when Orange Drink was called Chlorophorm, random famous people I've stood next to, James Sheller, Brent Jackson and my mom
Influences: The Beatles, Tool, Frank Zappa, Mozart, Nirvana, Stevie Wonder, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Holst, Tom Petty, Elton John, White Zombie, Pantera, Tori Amos, A Perfect Circle, Ben Folds, Bill Hicks, Randy Newman, John Prine
Sounds Like: Aloysius
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Tool's New Record

It's all in D Minor!!!!! AAAAHHHH!!!!!I don't think I'm evolved enough to understand what the hell danney carrey is doing anymore. I need to go study tabla with Zakir Hussein for 20 years to be able t...
Posted by on Tue, 09 May 2006 12:34:00 GMT