Yea, I like to play live. You can record as much as you can and still not come close to the energy of playing live. I love it. But what musician doesn't love to play for other people?

I play where ever people will let me make some noise. There have been so many special moments that stand out in my memory (playing the first show with my current band, playing an acoustic show with a sax player, getting into a fight with someone heckling us onstage) that it would be nearly impossible to list them all.

In my mind there has always been 2 different groups of people: artists WITH record deals and those without. I believe it's always been possible to go the independent route by recording and marketing yourself with the same outcome of having a record label do all this for you (Ani Difranco is a perfect example of that).

MP3 and the internet has created a new avenue for all kinds of artists to do just that. It's the rise of the independent artists if you ask me. It's great!

There are downsides though. Record sales are at on all time low and that means artists aren't making as much money as they used to. Of course some will say that's fine, it's not about the money anyway and anyone doing it just for the money doesn't deserve it. Well in my opinion MP3 and the internet has not so much hurt the artistic side of music but more like changed the game. I don't know if some of the great concept albums of the past (Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Wall, The White Album) would go so great if they were instead released in the present only because (with the internet and the MP3 now a major player in the record business) the single is now more important than ever. Back when these albums were released the concept album was a fresh new idea and was a viable thing to market. Now, people don't want to hear concept albums. They want to go download that song they heard on the radio and be down with it. That's evident in the sales for Green Day's 'American Idiot' album.

So i think it's a great thing for small independent artists that are just trying to get heard, but a horrible thing for the music industry as a whole. We just have to find a new way to keep the inspiration. If the Beatles were making records knowing how someone would just download the song and move on to another artist i believe they would have been smart and not done a concept album. They would have been writing straight singles. Could you imagine no White Album?

Make money making music?! Hell yea!

I started playing guitar when i was around 11 years old. I was heavily into stuff like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Metallica and stuff like that.

Then i heard B.B.King and John Lee Hooker. After that i was hooked on the blues and jazz. When i was a freshman in high school i got invited into the jazz band at Southwestern Oklahoma University. I learned alot there.

When i finally got around to forming my own band i was interested in melding all these influences into a strange sort of 'heavy blues'.

Since then i've been writing songs and playing live. I'm always trying to change what i write to sound different then the previous song. I'm still working on a few things, but i think i have a formula. I know it sounds like a mad scientist in a lab but sometimes that's how i feel. I hope you like it.

Anyone who writes good songs.

The EndZone, Roscoes, The Office Lounge, The Alley Club, Mr. Bill's. These clubs have been really great to us and a total blast everytime we play there.

My favorite city i've been to so far would have to be Orlando.

My favorite acoustic guitar is my Taylor. I just bought a Fender American Standard Strat. I use a Fender Hot Rod Deville 4 10".