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Cody McKenna

Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.

About Me

Song quote 'o' da week


"In my opinion seeing is to know
The things we love
always first to go
who's to say
won't end up alone
broken wings I'm falling
it won't be long
skin on me is burning
the fires of the sun"

Artist: Alter Bridge
Song: Broken Wings
Album: One Day Remains

Hey I'm Cody. I'm a sophmore at John Burroughs High School and I'm also a 16 year old self taught guitarist who doesn't really know anything about reading music or anything, I just play. I've been playing since December 05/January 06. I play a Fender Stratocaster (pink paisley), a Fender Prodogy (discontinued), an Ibanez IC200 Iceman (also discontinued), a Kramer XLI (also, also discontinued) an Ibanez S470DXQM, and a Young and an Ovation accoustic. I mainly play the Ibanez S though.
Mainly, right now, I'm concentrating on putting up beautiful sounding music as oppose to cool, bad ass sounding songs mainly cause it's easier to do without a band. As soon as I put together a band, there'll be more rock music.
My email address is [email protected]. So if you need to contact me, just send me an email.
Which Guitar Player Are You? (pics)

My Interests

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Member Since: 5/6/2006
Band Members: Cody McKenna - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards/piano.

Beat It solo



Influences: My main influences are,

JASON BECKER


EDWARD VAN HALEN

J.S. BACH

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN

RANDY RHOADS

JOHN LENNON

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

JIMI HENDRIX

ANDY McKEE

BOB DYLAN

MARTY FRIEDMAN

ULI JON ROTH

HERMAN LI

BUCKETHEAD

MARK TREMONTI


Also, my father, Kevin McKenna, who not only is an awesome dad, but is also trying to enlighten America, by founding a non profit organization (IDEAS) that produces a series of social and political based documentaries. Please visit his site, www.ideasfilm.orgHim and I are currently doing a documentary on Jason Becker's life.

Other Influences:
Claudio Sanchez, Travis Stever, Erik Mongrain, Nick Stratton, David Lee Roth, Daron Malakian, Sam Totman, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Steven Seagal, Serj Tankian, Jake Shimabukuro, Sammy Hagar, that black guy with the guitar and the turban and the rollerskates down at Venice Beach, Jeff Beck, Chuck Norris, Billy Gibbons and all living and non-living beings that inspire.
If anyone was wondering, my top three favorite guitarists are Eddie Van Halen, Jason Becker and Buckethead. They all rock.

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This is my hero, Jason Becker, playing the "Serrana Arpeggios".

Andy McKee playing my favorite of all his songs, "The Friend I Never Met"

My favorite band, Van Halen, playing "5150".

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
Sounds Like: Music
Record Label: Your Mom.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

My favorite music genres/bands.

Since I’m constantly getting messeges asking what my favorite bands are, I’ve decided to tell you.   Classical, Rock, Blues, Some metal, Country-rock. Basically, Coheed and Cambr...
Posted by Cody McKenna on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:59:00 PST

I wonder how many of you actually know me...

  http://www.truefriendtest.com/friendtest/1392871...
Posted by Cody McKenna on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:06:00 PST

New survey

     ..> Basics:      Name: Cody McKenna      Date of Birth: 1/4/92      Birthplace: Kaiser &nb...
Posted by Cody McKenna on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:12:00 PST

Finally finished it.

Well, I finally finished that song I wrote for that girl I mentioned in my last blog.  I'm really happy with how it turned out... too bad she'll probably never hear it. haha.   -Cody...
Posted by Cody McKenna on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:59:00 PST

Largest amount of plays in one day...

Nov 23, 2007. 9:21 pm - 77 plays Nov 23, 2007. 9:24 pm - 82 plays Nov 23, 2007. 11:29 pm - 92 plays
Posted by Cody McKenna on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:22:00 PST

A few things...

1) I'm having musician's block; I'm trying to write a song for this girl (who unfortunatly hates me.  haha, yeah, my life sucks.).  I've got most of it, but I can't seem to fi...
Posted by Cody McKenna on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:34:00 PST

Just wrote a new song.

Well, you see, first of all, after hearing Jason Becker's new song, it inspired me to go home and, well... write a new song.  Here's the deal; Jason Becker is a big Bob Dylan fan.  Yesterday...
Posted by Cody McKenna on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:06:00 PST

Chillin' with Jason Becker.

So on Saturday, my dad and I took off for San Fransisco.  I had never been there before.  We were going there to start a documentary about Jason Becker.  We met him at Fantasy Records a...
Posted by Cody McKenna on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:09:00 PST