Probably the most unspectacular story ever. I made a tape of tunes in 1995, drew a cover for it myself on notebook paper in cerulean colored marker, and for the name I put my initials and wrote "Lanna" on the bottom corner, and boom, there's where the name started.

And no, I'm not Michael Jackson reincarnated, and I'm not a fan except for one song EVH played guitar on.

I just write, record, and make the artwork by myself at my own home. Maybe someday I'll make a band out of this, but till then it remains 100% pure hobby and fun past-time.

Allow me to go on a rant here.......

All this talk of the MP3 really rather pisses me off, because we are attacking a FILE TYPE instead of the piracy issue. If MP3s were eradicated, we would still have Ogg vorbis files, Real Media files, Windows Media Player files, the classic huge as hell (50+ MB) WAV files.

However, the ability to download or share music has helped me more than it has hurt me, being as my favorite tunes are all from obscure sources that are often out of print, and that putting my stuff up on-line makes it a lot easier to let friends hear it.

Sign? Shit, I'd like to make my OWN label, and build my OWN studio, and make my own media, that way then, I know I'm not being f***ed by any one of those three.

M.J. stayed very secretive for years, even my mom knew very little about what I was recording, she probably thought they were all Nirvana songs or whatever.

By 9th grade though, I got brave and started showing off on guitar at school, and this generated interest in people wanting recordings, so I started making multi-track tapes contrived via clever electronics tricks and conventional Wal-Mart grade tape recorders, drew up the art on printer paper, and then passed the tapes around school.

During 1999-2003, I took a break from demoing my tunes as I had started working with bands as a lead guitarist, and was no longer interested in writing stuff that would not at least get me a gig.

In 2003, I grew fed up with the band I was in at the time, due to the usual reasons (drugs, girl problems, and much drama), so I left and started just sitting in my room at night with all the lights off playing guitar and making tapes of the music I'd just randomly play. By then I was good with computers, so I decided to get started playing with computer recording, and from then on, I started making CD's of my own music mixed with hot-rodded covers every month.

So that takes me to here, though I've cut down on CDs considerably because I have a life outside music now, I'm still doing stuff.

Nirvana, The Cars, REM, ZZ Top, Loverboy, Night Ranger, Journey, Van-Halen, Poison, Whitesnake, Billy Squier, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Buckethead, computer & videogames, Dokken, Sammy Hagar, STYX, My Bloody Valentine, and plenty more that would make this list ridiculously long. I'm very eclectic to say the least.

My dark and comfy apartment, or dawdling around the northern parts of the Seattle area looking for "toys".

Fender Offset and Shortscale Guitars, plus some Custom Builds, and cheap crap I have acquired at Pawn Shops and hot-rodded. My primary four guitars are a Fender Jag-Stang with EMG pickups, a Fender Jaguar with SD Cool Rails, a vintage Fender Mustang with a refinish, and a home built custom Fender Jazzmaster style guitar. I also have a vintage Fender Musicmaster that's undergoing restoration.

I use pretty much any effect box or rack device I can get my hands on. Everything here is recorded with a Behringer V-Amp Pro, and more recently a Behringer 2024P Virtualizer Pro has been added into the mix for some wilder sounds.

I use four Basses: a B.C. Rich, a Segovia, a Fender Mustang Bass, and an Epiphone EB-0.

I use a shitpile of cheap old keyboards that only table-hooter fans know about, mostly Yamaha PSS and PSR models. My PSR-275 handles the drums, and the rest all handle the 80's-like synths that I like to use every so often.