Independent Artist Magazine June/July 2013 | Page 38

Bradley Walker who was really in the music scene around Indianapolis. So we would go out and meet all the bands she knew such as Stereo Deluxe, The Language, Margot and The Nuclear So and Sos, Re Vera and such. I had never expected to learn about so many different styles of people and music. The experience and love that these people had created was in itself, a type of heavenly experience. Almost, like living a dream or a movie. This opened up my eyes to bands such as Modest Mouse, Nada Surf, Hanson, Flobots, Matisyahu, Minus the Bear, Common, and etc. I couldn’t really find someone to play with at the time so i started my own project called YouThrewMeThroughYou.   After a long process of trying to find myself, I found myself out in Delaware, Ohio. Where I met my friends from Morpheem. We played a mix style of hip hop and alternative/grunge rock. We were together for a little over 2 years, playing with bands such as, X factor 1, Act of Violence, Lost Chapter, Otep, Flaw, Hed Pe,Sever, Straight Line Stitch, and alot of local bands who played around the Columbus, Ohio Scene.When we broke up, me and the lead singer Jay decided to start our own band with guys from Act of Violence and some of our friends. We called ourselves Survival of the Fittest. We were a techno/grunge/rap/hiphop/ dubstep/jam/alt/metal/hardcore band. We were trying everything and everything we could in that band. Most of the songs we had just jammed out and played one show out in Virginia. From there, i kinda of jumped from band to band trying to figure out what i wanted to do. Bands such as Altus, Planets of Neptune, and a few jam band. I had no idea what i wanted to do, and at the time life was getting really hard for me. Jumping around from place to place i decided to flip a dime..... duh duh duh. So back to Indianapolis I went, where i met up with the singer of The Language, Luka Raykovich. We decided that we wanted to go out and start playing open mic at different bars mostly so i could back into the routine of playing out and such. We ended up at Lizards Lounge one night where i met up with my current guitar player, Kip Newby. Having had a lot of experience in the music underground scene, Kip and I decide to form a band. Ecstasy. There is a lot more that I could put on here but for the most part this is my side of the story. We are currently working as hard as we can to get our songs out there. Show people how we think. Show people that music was always here and never died. With us its about the Love, and the Experience we as musicians have with each other. We all pull for the same thing. Happiness. A way to show our hearts without having to break ourselves so much. This is my life, my first love, and most important, my dream. Drums/Guitar/Vocals  I started out playing guitar when i was about 11 years old. My family and I went to a little guitar shop in Greenwood, Indiana , and my step mother showed me a few things and she handed me a guitar and I picked it up like riding a bike almost. What really got me into playing was Metallica, Ozzy ( bark at the moon album ) and Stevie Ray Vaughn’s rendition of Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix. I grew up in Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Children’s home. Nearly everyone there had different music influences so i kind of listened to whatever made me see or feel something new as a kid yah know, seeing everything from someone else’s perspective. So naturally i just wanted to play everything. After being at the home, I had to move out with my dad in Monroe, Oregon. There, I met my first band mate, Zac Mange’ and Matt Pecorilla. We started a band for Zac’s senior project. We called it Altered Perspective. I played drums mostly in this band. There wasn’t much to do in such a small town, so we decided to form a band to kind of get ourselves out of our situations in a sense. The band was a mixture of Nirvana, Incubus, Blink 182, Bob Marley and Ben Harper. After I had left Oregon i move to Kissimmee, Florida Where I had discovered Rise Against. Left Florida when i was 17. Then i went back to my home state out in Indiana. There i got into a band called Hope Burns to Ash. We only played one show with them, but the style they played help me curve my playing abilities. There style was metalcore, which wasn’t really my style, but defiantly opened my eyes to a different genre. From here, I ended up dating a girl when i turned 18 38