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About Me

I'm an artist, musician and tattooer . I play guitar and drums. I paint, draw and do as much artwork as I have time to do. www.thumpgun.com is the official website for our band.Also check out the bands I play in here on myspace thumpgun myspace and also bastardface myspace and also the fabulous polecat boogie revival . --------------------------------------------I'm a tattooer at Evermore Galleries I have a portfolio there and check out the other amazing artist's at Evermore Galleries . I also have a gallery at: www.tattooz.net . I'm inpsired by the art of Jeff Duke, Filip Leu, Jack Rudy, Chris Trevino, Chris Garver, Danny knight, Erik Rieth, Shige, Don Ed Hardy, Paul Rogers, Freddy Negrete, Shotsie GormanI am married to a wonderful woman I've known for 21 years. She's incredible and I love her very much.

My Interests

music, metal, guitars, amps, art, tattooing, tattoo machines, tattooers, painting, drawing, RX-7's, rotary engines, animals, making things, more guitars, more amps, intelligence...

I'd like to meet:

people into music, guitars, amps, cars, tattoos, tattooers, machines, art, artists..... check out my band listing:and the official website: and another band:

Music:

some bands I'm way into are: machine head, skinlab, exhorder, deadhorse, buzzov-en, exodus, biohazard, superjoint ritual, gack, eyehategod, grief, acid bath, agents of oblivion, floodgate, doom, BLS, melvins, suicidal, no mercy, disrupt, dark angel, killing culture, broken bones, laaz rockit, fear, 13, sabbath, plasmatics, gg allin, amen, new york dolls, stooges, mc5, fear, sex pistols, zz top, real van halen, motorhead, venom, lamb of god, all that remains, silent civilian, manowar, if hope dies, acacia strain, corrosion, SYL, slipknot, forbidden, testament, vio-lence, hellhammer, celtic frost, priest, maiden, accept, MSG, lynyrd skynyrd, kiss, wasp, sadus, gang green, goatwhore, stressball, dead boys, lords of the new church on another note I also like: the beatles, stones, joplin, muddy waters, john lee hooker, gary moore, redd kross, husker du, hanoi rocks, dogs d'amour, adam and the ants, bauhaus, danko jones, aerosmith, patti smith.

Movies:

love 'em, too many to name.. texas chainsaw massacre, gummo, fear and loathing, boondock saints, snatch, love and a .45, repo man, bad lieutenant, jacob's ladder, fight club, from hell, blue velvet, clockwork orange, the warriors, cold blood, payback, cannibal holocaust, reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, freeway, 28 days later, more american graffiti, seven, freebie and the bean, too many more...

Television:

I stare at it

Heroes:

the bands, music, guitarists, art, artists, tattooers, cars and motorcycles that changed my life from when I was a kid until this very day.