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Name? Adam Critchfield (The Midnight Bard)
Birth date? 11/18/86
Instrument played? Guitar! And now Vocals as well
Instrument you wish you played? Drums :/
Level of playing skill? I just learned the song in my profile, so idk I'm alright.
Favorite Genre to play? Melodic/Progressive Metal
Favorite Musician? Jesper Stromblad/Mark Morton/Mikkel Sandager
Favorite performer (on stage)? Devin Townsend (from Strapping Young Lad)and Mikael Bogbale(ex-Mnemic)
Last CD you bought? Architect of Lies by Mercenary
Was it good? Mercenary can't ever do wrong. Amazing melodies - spectacular vocals.
Number of CD's owned? 90~
Do you own an ipod? screw apple. Creative all the way. (Zen W)
How many songs are on it? over 30GBs of headbanging
Favorite Genre to listen to Melodic/Progressive Metal
Does music run in your family? yes indeedy
Who plays what in your family? My mom - piano, my sis - piano/clarinet
Are you musically spoiled? -_- ... no
Who payed for your nice ass instrument/equipment? I DID
What song are you playing right now? some stuff i wrote. maybe you'll hear it... if you're lucky
What song are you listening to right now? The whole 'We are the Nightmare' album by Arsis
Do you know what a SCALE is? Do you know how much I hate surveys?
What genre do you dislike the most? Hardcore
Why? Because karate dancing little wussies need to get stomped.
Who should die in the music business? people that live by their image and not the music.
Do you listen to classical music? of course. know your roots.
Do you listen to the radio? the radio is for news and weather. go buy a cd and support your favorite band!
Why do you love music? because life is made up of the most difficult patterns of notes to play and the most complicated time signatures. To fully understand music is to fully understand life.
What do you recommend for me? Soilwork, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Arch Enemy, The Faceless, Mercenary, Scar Symmetry
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540)735-59427/28/08: Wow it's been a while since I've been on this website. And I've realized just how much I despise it. But, for those of you that use it, I'll keep this updated. So I'm dating a beautiful girl at the moment and I couldn't be more in love. I'm currently finishing up my last class at Germanna giving me an Associate's degree in Business Administration. I'll be going to the Art Institute of Washington DC in October. I'll be getting my Bachelor's Degree in the Arts with my major in Audio Production/Engineering. I still play guitar and rock out with the remnants of the bands BIP and In Vein.1/02/08 Life tends to shit on your taco every now and then. I HAD a tasty chalupa... now its covered in poop. Previous update! Currently I'm working at Circuit City as one of the Firedog computer technicians. (Circuit City's version of the Geek Squad) Exciting... I know... -.- but hey it's a job and they work around my school schedule. I love my work buds. Speaking of school - I'm currently finishing up my Associate's in Business Administration. After that I plan to go to the Art Institute of Washington to do Recording Arts. The end goal is to own a recording studio and get local bands going. I know that my music will not carry my spending habits, and computers are getting pretty boring, so I want to combine the two in a way that fits me better. I would still get to mess around with technology all day and work with my hands, as well as play music and be involved in it as well. In my music life, I've acquired new friends as well. I currently play in a band called IN VEIN. Previously known as Bears in a Pool. (myspace.com/inveintheband) We play all metal from Metallica to Dark Tranquillity to Opeth to The Haunted. There's really no one genre we can be thrown in. We just play what we like and hope you all can get a headbang or two out of it and sing the choruses right along with me. Right now we're in writing mode, hiding in the bear cave preparing for our upcoming EP/possible full- length. We have ... *counts* idk maybe 6 or 7 originals and some others in progress.|m/(>,<)|m/ Interests!!! The biggest influence in my life is my music. With over 1500$ in metal cds and a Windows Media playlist with over 250 hours of headbanging ... I'de say my favorite genre is Metal. If it were up to me.. if I could join a band and go on tour I would do it in a heartbeat because music is that important to me. Going to concerts is another addiction of mine. In the past year I've been to nearly 20 big metal shows, and seen about 70 bands. To be honest... if music suddenly ceased to exist - I wouldn't want to exist either. ---===:::::~:::::===--- Actual 'About Me' section: Hey, I've been known as a lotta names:: Yamhead (i swear i didnt hit the possum!!), Phosphorous the Clean-up Lemur (i still dont know...), The Midnight Bard, "My Maple Suckle" (Luke is awesome), Critchy (thanks Dan.. lol) but mostly Adam Critchfield. I love a lotta stuff. Mostly the mind- numbingly retarded things that you normal people cant handle. ^_^ Heres a bit of what i enjoy having in my life.guitar, partying, writing music, playing shows, videogames, guitar, anything scottish, cheese ziggurats, invader zim, guitar, monty python, baffo-duels, nomads, guitar, lineage II, heavy/death/black metal, guitar, taco-bell, paintball, mountain dew, theatre, adult swim, guitar, computers, ring-tailed lemurs, headbanging at metal shows, slurpees, and oh, did i mention I LOVE SHREDDING SOME STRINGS!?....i think that about sums it up!

I'd like to meet:

This kid is an insane driver!!!!
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Jesper Stromblad from In Flames Mikael/Mircea from Mnemic Jon Schaeffer/Matt Barlow from Iced Earth Hansi Kursch from Blind Guardian Alf The Count from Sesame Street Jon Stewart The creator of Joe Cartoon Seth McFarlane and the mexican guy who hit me with his construction van! >.< *shakes fist in anger*

Music:

Rock hard, die young. lm/ Some of my favorite bands: Abigail Williams Aborted AC/DC Acheron Aerosmith Agalloch Agathodaimon Alice Cooper Alice in Chains All Shall Perish Amon Amarth Amoral Angel Corpse Angra Annihilator Anthrax Apocalyptica Aqua Arch Enemy Arcturus Arsis As I Lay Dying At the Gates Bad Acid Trip Bal-Sagoth Bathory Bears in a Pool Becoming the Archetype Behemoth Between the Buried and Me Beyond the Embrace Biomechanical Black Sabbath Blind Guardian Blinded Colony Bloodbath Blotted Science Blue Oyster Cult Bob Marley Bon Jovi Born of Osiris Braindrill Bridge to Solace Bruce Hornsby Buckethead Burn the Priest Burzum Callenish Circle Candlemass Cannibal Corpse Carcass Celtic Frost Ceremonial Oath Charon Children of Bodom Chimaira Cold Coldplay Coldseed Converge Corrosion of Conformity Cryptopsy Cyaegha Daft Punk Dark Tranquillity Darkane Darkest Hour Darkthrone Daylight Dies Dead to Fall Death Deep Purple Deicide Demons & Wizards Dethklok Devildriver Diabolical Masquerade Dillinger Escape Plan Dimension Zero Dimmu Borgir Disarmonia Mundi Dismember Dissection Dragonforce Dream Theater Eagles Earth, Wind & Fire Edge of Sanity Edguy Eiffel 65 Eluveitie Elysium Emperor Ensiferum Enslaved Entombed Eternal Tears of Sorrow Exodus Eyes of Fire Fear Factory Fields of the Nephilim Finntroll Firewind Frank Zappa Full Devil Jacket Genghis Tron God Forbid Gorgoroth Gorguts Gorod Grateful Dead Group X Guns N Roses GWAR Hammerfall Hate Eternal Himsa Horse the Band Hybrid Theory Hypocrisy Iced Earth Immortal In Flames Insomnium Into Eternity In Vein!!!!!! Iron Maiden It Dies Today Jimi Hendrix Job for a Cowboy Joe Satriani Judas Priest Junior Senior Kalmah Kamelot Kansas Kataklysm Katatonia KISS Kreator Krisiun Lake of Tears Lamb of God Led Zeppelin Light this City Liquid Tension Experiment Lynyrd Skynyrd Machine Head Malevolent Creation Manfred Mann's Earth Band Manticora Marduk Mastodon Megadeth Mercenary Meshuggah Metallica M.S.I. Ministry Mnemic Moonsorrow Morbid Angel Mortician Mos Def Muse Mygrain Naglfar Napalm Death Necrophobic Nest Neuraxis Nevermore Nightrage Nile Old Man's Child Opeth Orphaned Land Outkast Ozzy Osbourne Pantera Paradise Lost Pink Floyd Primal Fear Protest the Hero Psyopus Pyramaze Queens of the Stone Age Quo Vadis Racer X Rage Against the Machine Raintime Rapture Raunchy R.E.M. Rob D Rob Zombie Ronnie James Dio Rotting Christ Sanctity Scar Symmetry Scarve Scatman John Scorpions Sepultura Sentenced Serenity Seven Witches Silent Civilian Slayer Sodom Soilwork Sonic Syndicate Static X Still Remains Stratovarius Suffocation Suspyre Swollen Members Symphony X System of a Down Tenacious D Terror 2000 The Absence The Black Dahlia Murder The Cranberries The Crown The Faceless The Haunted The Smashing Pumpkins Therion Thin Lizzy Threat Signal Through the Eyes of the Dead Thyrane Tiamat Tone Loc Trivium Twisted Sister Unanimated Unearth Unhallowed Dissonance Van Halen Watch Them Die Ween White Zombie Winds Winds of Plague Wintersun Witchery Wrathchild America Yngwie Malmsteen Zakk Wylde Zao ZZ TopBREATHE AND BLINK you freak of nature! ok.. now for a much shorter list... movies.

Movies:

The Orphanage, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Boondock Saints, Any Miyazaki film (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle...) The Kill Bill movies, The LOTR trilogy, The [original 3] Star Wars Trilogy, the Resident evil movies, Dawn of the Dead, 28 DAYS LATER!!, Rocky Horror Picture Show [heh heh, you will never look at Tim Curry the same....], Both Underworlds, Pirates of the Caribbean, Saw I-IV, The Three Musketeers, The Princess Bride, and anything with Jack Black. not too many others. Im not a huge movie-goer.

Television:

Ide have to say if there's nothing on Comedy Central, Food Network, BBC America, or Cartoon Network.... screw it... I'm doin something else. I love Stiff, Perfect Hair Forever, Scrubs, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, Dirty Jobs, Invader Zim, Trigun, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Robot Chicken, Futurama, Family Guy, Harvey Birdman: Attourney at Law, Wolf's Rain, Venture Bro's, Super Milk-Chan, Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Big O, Trigger-Happy TV, Fooly Cooly, and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. ::I love me some cartoons ^_^::

Books:

Reading? Sorry. I won't pick up a book... or my nose. But I'll pick up a guitar and a mic!Actually... there is one book you should read. Upon a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony.

Heroes:

Thats my baby. You just can't beat this guitar without going over 2k$.CONSTRUCTION/SCALE: Set-Neck w/ Ultra Access /25.5” BODY: Mahogany w/ Solid Flame Maple Top NECK/FINGERBOARD: 3-pc. Mahogany/Ebony FRETS: 24 Jumbo INLAYS: Dots PICKUPS: Schecter Super Rock II ELECTRONICS: Vol/Vol/Tone(tap)/3-Way BRIDGE: TonePros TOM w/ thru-body BINDING: Creme (neck/headstock) TUNERS: Grover HARDWARE: Chrome COLOR: Antique Black Stain (ABLS) SUGGESTED RETAIL $1179 (and I only paid 800. plus i got a hardshell case!)