Band names are the hardest damn things to come up with. Usually it just ends up being the name that nobody hates.

Not currently.

The internet allows us all to get in touch with kindred musicians we'd never have a chance to hear let alone talk to and learn from.

Of course. I'm an American money is in my veins

I started playing music like most young Americans, in the third grade I was given a recorder and taught how to play Hot Cross Buns. Shortly after that I began learning the saxophone. Four or five years after that I began playing guitar and working with various teenage basement/attic/garage bands. I didn't really start singing until going away to school and left all the singers I knew at home.

One of my biggest guitar influences is Robbie Kreiger from the Doors. The man is vastly underrated. I think I listened to the doors everyday throughout middleschool. Other influences: PINK FLOYD, Clapton, SRV, Hendrix, Phish, Black Sabbath, Guns 'N Roses, the Dead, Bob Dylan,