7/30/2023 0 Comments Black light burns vinyl![]() ![]() “I’ve got another band called Big Dumb Face, which is a side project and then another band, that I’ve retired for the time being called Black Light Burns. We started playing more shows and writing more songs, slowly replacing all of the old songs, and that’s what became ‘3 Dollar Bill’ all of the songs that we were writing that were replacing the old songs.” He came in on a train and played the first show that night. He was in Philadelphia interning at a tattoo studio at the time. They had a show coming up so I learned all the songs and then met Fred the day of the show. I went over and met all the guys except for Fred. He found John, and then John approached me and said, ‘If you want to come over and try out for what I’m doing, our guitar player just quit’. He’s very cognisant of what’s going on around him, it was his business to find out about every other band in town and who the people in the bands were, and he started stealing people from bands, or taking people from bands that had broken up. We were all in different bands at the time, but after high school as people in our bands started peeling off to go to college or start working for their fathers, or whatever they were going to do, we were the people left that still wanted to the band thing.įred started kicking people out of his original band. Fred was from North Carolina and we met him after he had moved to Jacksonville. ![]() I met John Otto, and his best friend growing up was Sam the bass player. ![]() At first I said ‘Oh I worked for a long time’ but then I realised, ‘No I didn’t! Bizkit got signed nine years after I started playing guitar!’ I just shut my mouth for the rest of the conversation…. He’s a singer and a dancer and looking into things like getting support from alcohol companies, to sponsor his shows, pay for the lights - he’s got this whole route planned out! He asked me how long it took me, after I got into music, to find success. “I was talking with a friend recently who’s trying to break into the gay nightclub pop world, about the possibility of musical success. Similar to how Radiohead uses acoustic guitar when they go heavy, as if it’s almost part of the drumkit or part of their percussion." I use acoustic when its necessary for certain things for percussion on a lot of recordings, just in the background supporting. I like playing acoustic, but I tend to play electric most of the time. I didn’t have any older siblings, or any friends, I didn’t know anyone, so I just ended up sitting in my room, practicing. I wasn’t about to go find a new martial arts class, so I just said ‘No, I’m going to play guitar’. When I got to Florida I couldn’t really skate because there were shells in the concrete, meaning all the streets were super rough. I was skateboarding all the time at that point. We moved from Nashville to Florida when I was 12. Seeing my dad play all the time, him showing me songs, I got into electric guitar. My parents had a limited amount of vinyl - the first record I got into was this old Moody Blues vinyl that I would listen to all the time. My dad would play acoustic guitar all the time, he was very into Paul Simon and Jim Croce. Now I know it’s not though, because my dad has this Martin D-18 from 1963 which is a really amazing. I was over at his house one-time and he showed me his weird, heavy yellow electric guitar, it might have been a Steinberger or something, it had no headstock (or I don’t remember it having one, you know how memory is…!) I just remember thinking ‘this is such an amazing object it feels so professional’ I thought it was cooler than my dad’s guitar! "I did Wing Chun Kung Fu when I was between 8 and 16, and my teacher was also a guitar instructor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
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