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Captain Morgan

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About Me

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me." - Paul Atreides (of Frank Herbert’s Dune)

"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded." - Jimi Hendrix (1943-1970)

"Let’s rock." - Al Bundy (of "Married with Children")


Howdy to all. I’m a 23 year old guitarist from Jackson Heights, Queens. I enjoy many types of metal and other types of music as well. Basically, if it has musicianship and/or decent songwriting, it’s good! I enjoy staying fit and going to the gym. I also enjoy the occasional good read (Tolkien, McCaffrey, The Divine Comedy...chit like dat meng). I’m in a melodic death metal band, UTOPIA BANISHED, 5 of the most awesome people on Earth in the same band! Check us out too at www.myspace.com/utopiabanished.
The songs here are shred stuff, some being jams with Sean Maier, from Oyster Bay LI. He’s on my friends list under Guitars from Mars. If you enjoyed my shit, he’s one sick motherfucker, check him out too. By the way, I NEED MONEY!! So any of you out there need some shred or just a capable guitarist for a project at a cheap cheap price, please let me know. Don’t be afraid to holla anytime. I’m a very nice guy that enjoys conversation with pretty much anyone :D Cheers!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/5/2005
Band Website: utopiabanished.com
Band Members:

Everything on this page was performed by myself, with the exception of Wrath of the Ninja Sword, which is a jam with me and Sean Maier (Guitars from Mars and lead guitarist of Blessed by a Broken Heart). The drums were programmed by me as well. I am also in a melodic death metal band, Utopia Banished.

Utopia Banished Members:

Nick Tumia: insane man with sticks.

Dani Augugliaro: mad keyboardist and insane vocals man.

Brett Grimm: lord ov the thumping.

Marvin Silva: He has sleeves of ink and a guitar in hands. Watch out! 0.0

Ian Scott (Yours truly): I'm all like meedily meedily mee!! _


Influences: I am influenced by many things including tons of axe slingers. A few of them are Michael Motherfucking Romeo of Symphony X (I jock him ridiculously), Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker, Greg Howe, Marty Friedman, Chris Broderick, Jeff Loomis, Al DiMeola, Shawn Lane, Allan Holdsworth....eh I think you get the point. I love bands like Symphony X, Megadeth, Death, and I basically grew up on thrash metal and extreme metal bands (there are way too many to list). I also have a taste for new wave ambient sort of stuff, like Andreas Vollenweider. He’s an electric harpist and a great composer. Classical music inspires me a lot like J.S. Bach, Paganini, Hayden, Vivaldi. Movie scores are entirely under rated sources of inspiration. Some of my favorite film scorers are Jerry Goldsmith (check out his score for the movie "First Knight") and Hans Zimmer; he did the Pirates of the Carribean and Gladiator scores. Some video game music is amazing and really well composed. Nobuo Uematsu composed everything for the Final Fantasy scores and there is some truly amazing stuff there. I am even influenced by rap, as the rhythmic quality of the vocals, or "flow," helps me to think of new rhythms and compose. I think that is just about everything that influences me. We are all influenced by everything that we experience. Have an open mind and remain teachable!
Sounds Like: Cacophony, Racer X, Steve Vai, Symphony X, Greg Howe, Death, Cynic...I dunno. What the hell do I sound like??
Record Label: funny stuff...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

MY NEW FAVORITE GUITARIST!!!

Shredders and shreddets, you must check this guy out. His name is Niels Vejlyt and he looks a lot like Mr. Clean. His licks are insane. He does a lot of hammer on pull off with all four fingers on the...
Posted by Captain Morgan on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:21:00 PST

A couple of newish pictures

Yeah so out of pure boredom, I posted some pictures. One of them is a picture of a guitar that is being made for me. 29 frets. Birds eye maple fret board. Alder for the body I think. I need this thing...
Posted by Captain Morgan on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:23:00 PST

THE DESCENT

see it! Drive safely...and don't forget the map...
Posted by Captain Morgan on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:57:00 PST

About the new song

Jeapardy - What's a Ho? This is where I got the sound clip from. It was part of a real Jeapardy episode. No, "What is a ho?" was not the correct answer. The correct answer was "What is a rake?" Just ...
Posted by Captain Morgan on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:58:00 PST

AVAILABLE FOR SESSION WORK!!! NEED $$$$

If anyone out there needs some shred in any of their projects or just a capable guitarist to fill in for someone, let me know. I won't do it for free, but I guarantee you won't find another guitarist ...
Posted by Captain Morgan on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:48:00 PST

Bored, frustrated, weather sucks...BLIBBITYBLAH!

Damn man, I wish I had something to do besides type this stupid fuckin blog on this site. There's a guy somewhere out there right now getting head from three beautiful women while smoking crack and sk...
Posted by Captain Morgan on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:36:00 PST

Isn't it Awfully Nice to Have a Penis

Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis? Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong? It's swell to have a stiffy, It's devine to own a dick. From the tiniest little tadger To the world's biggest prick! So...
Posted by Captain Morgan on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:52:00 PST

Driving in torrential rain...

Yeah, so my first experience driving in the rain was not a good one lol. It was fucking pouring today and hardcore ballsy Ian decides that it would be a great idea to get some driving in for the exper...
Posted by Captain Morgan on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 10:12:00 PST

Virgin skin...no more!

That is the mood of my dragon...predatory. Got the outline of my tattoo done! Hell yes! Marvin is the man. It's a wyvern (that's a dragon with two legs and two wings, no arms. Bipedal like) on my rig...
Posted by Captain Morgan on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 07:52:00 PST

Anything goes...blogs r gay

For the few of you who actually read these things, I AM DRRRRUNK! Marv, Ken, Dan, and Dave, you friggin rule. Tequilla!!! I have noe idea where I was going with this. To everyone, all of your comments...
Posted by Captain Morgan on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:09:00 PST