Adrian Mastro

I was born in Montebello CA. a suburb of Los Angeles. Both my parents are from NY. My ancestry comes from Italy and Spain and when I don't shave I look like a "mad arab". I got into KISS when I was about 4 or 5 and made my parents buy me every album only to have them all get broken with a hammer when KISS was accused of being "Knights In Satan's Service". Then around 8 I saw the television on the news of Randy Rhoad's death and although I was already turned on by the Crazy Train and I Don't Know songs on the radio I started buying cassette tapes and making copies from my older cousin's collection. I remember going to go buy the Blizzard Of Ozz tape at the La Puente Hills Mall in La Puente CA. but they did not have it so I saw this cassete with a picture of a monster in a straight jacket and bought that instead and I had my little walkman in the mall to sit down and listen to my new purchase. IRON MAIDEN "PIECE OF MIND" wow! I already had Judas Priest's Screaming For Veangance copied from my cousin along with a few other bands. I also had my first guitar in 4th grade but it did not sound anything like the opening riff from Speak of the Devil's SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE!!! Also by the time I got to 5th grade my hair was long like a girl's and the first day of school the teacher thought I was a girl! Anyways my first concert was when I was 10 years old and I had a choice to either see JUDAS PRIEST'S Defender's of the Faith Tour or OZZY OSBOURNE'S Bark At the Moon Tour. I chose Bark At The Moon and it was at the Long Beach Arena in CA. and I remember buying the program,wrist bands of Ozzy Rules and Bark At The Moon shirt. I cut out all the pics of Jake E. Lee and put them in my OZZY wallet LOL! I remember going to the making of Twisted Sister's "I WANNA ROCK" video for 2 days at the Montebello High School. They had bought hundreds of hamburgers for all the kids there and the band was pointing to me because I was this little 10 year old rocker kid. The Electric Planet arcade in Montebello was the place where all the rockers would hang out and watch MTV Metal concerts on the big screen. The place had MTV videos all day long and this is when MTV was actually cool. So you could sit down in front of the screen on stools and eat your space sundaes or super nachos and then go play video games. In 1995 I moved to Hallandale Beach Florida right on the ocean and I was surprised that it was GERIATRIC PARK and only OLD PEOPLE : ( Then 9 months later moved into a hipper building and started a band PREMONITION and recorded HE IS RISING with them. After them I made a band called DARK MAJESTY but then me and the singer moved to California, me in Los Angeles and him in San Francisco. So one year later me and the singer make DARK MAJESTY but in BRAZIL because he is Brazilian and so we recorded and played shows there for 4 months. IT WAS THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE AND I SUPER DUPER LOVE THE BRAZILIAN CULTURE,PEOPLE AND FOOD! I HOPE THAT ONE DAY I CAN RETURN THERE AND VISIT MY FRIENDS IN LAVRAS MG and CAMPOS DO JORDAO SP. www.casareal.es THIS IS THE AMBIDEXTROUS SHRED.. width="425" height="350">.. ..>.. width="425" height="350">.. ..> ALTERNATE PICKING EXERCISE.. width="425" height="350">.. ..> VOX PATHFINDER 15R.. width="425" height="350">.. ..>