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Fenner

"who'z the dude with the sloppy drums?"

About Me

Forty-ish Semi-professional musician and family man with a beautiful wife and two beautiful girls. Still pursuing that seemingly unattainable "rock n' roll dream", but I'm still having fun with it. And I actually pulled off a 15 date UK tour without my appendages falling off... Currently playing with the likes of Stacie Collins and Jason & The Scorchers as well as local faves Lust For Diva and Stormbringer. Trying to slip back into teaching as well. Spread the word, brothers & sisters!!! <a

My Interests

movies, music, video games, toy collecting, comics, box stacking, diaper duty, etc...

I'd like to meet:

any of my Rock n' Roll heroes, both of today and yesteryear.

Music:

I play music semi-professionally, so I listen to LOTS of music.... the sky's the limit... never thought I'd say it, but I really dig my new ipod!!!! (17,000 tunes and climbing...)

Movies:

Favorite movies include: Raising Arizona, Star Wars (all of 'em) The Kids Are Alright (The Who's Documentary) Cheech & Chong Movies (almost all of them...) Brazil....The Matrix Trilogy, Napoleon Dynamite, Walk the Line, Million Dollar Baby and anything to do with Comic movies. That's about all I can think of right now... there'll be more I'm sure...

Television:

Boston Legal, The Cleaner, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, C.S.I. reruns, ER, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, The Simpsons (reruns mostly...) Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Chowder, and sometimes but not all the time, WWE wrestling... (and yes, I've been caught watching IDOL too...and that dang Dancin' show...)

Books:

Cheese Chronicles by Tommy Womack The Dirt by Motley Crue Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart(Rush) One Train Later by Andy Summers (Police) Any book about the Who or Led Zeppelin Everything I'm cracked up to be by Jen Trynin

Heroes:

My Dad, first and foremost... Pete Townshend, Keith Moon, John Bonham, Brad Jones, Jason Ringenberg and Warner E. Hodges, Dan Baird, Stacie Collins, Tommy Womack ...and my rock n' roll guru Mentor Jeff Sweeney (Unca Ffej) Godspeed, lil' buddy...

My Blog

Thanks...

To all that came out to the Scorchers' appearances Thursday night at both the Ryman and Mercy Lounge.   Those were two very special shows for the band as a whole, and still to this day, ...
Posted by Fenner on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:23:00 PST

R.I.P. T.C. Kitty

Last week, our Transition Cat or Kitty if you will,  T.C.,  got hit by a car late at night on another street fairly close to ours.  She was a sweet cat,  probably only about 4 or 5...
Posted by Fenner on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:51:00 PST

Amplifier... at last... REDEMPTION!!!

Well,  they finally got my ugly mug on the cover of the Ro...  um, no sorry... The Amplifier.   Well, it's a start!   Anyhoo,  I'm honored to get my month (and inter...
Posted by Fenner on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:21:00 PST

Cuba’s back on again...

Guess Castro stepping down ain't gonna keep us far from rocking the shit out of the troops...    Looks to be an interesting trip.   We'll have an update when we get back,...
Posted by Fenner on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:05:00 PST

perspective...

Touring is rough, people.  Definitely not for the meek.  Builds character though.  And you get a whole new perspective on life and how we live it over here while you're in another count...
Posted by Fenner on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:25:00 PST

back stateside...

Still recovering and processing what transpired the whole of last month.  Glad to be back home in one piece, even if my dang luggage didn't make it back tonite from Atlanta...   Fi...
Posted by Fenner on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:08:00 PST

more from the tour front...

We've figured out how to conquer the massive long distance bills with the Vonage broadband phone. Rocks big time! It's nice to be able to call someone and not worry about the huge bill waiting when ...
Posted by Fenner on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:19:00 PST

howdy from Scotland...

Well, Spain has come and gone... We're all kinda glad that part's over... Nice scenery, great food, rude people... Whatever. Some guy named Paco's posted a few JATS numbers from the show there ...
Posted by Fenner on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:12:00 PST

heading abroad soon...

Well, the ol' Passport finally showed up, so it's official.  I'm a world travelling musician now.   JATS heads to Oviedo, Spain for the Crossroad Festival on Sept. 8th and then Warner, ...
Posted by Fenner on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:45:00 PST

musical bliss...

Well, this summer has proven to be quite a  memorable one for me so far.   Hell,  this YEAR's been pretty killer already.   Anyway,  after some great times had with ...
Posted by Fenner on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:15:00 PST