Calie Cox
ABOUT CALIE COX: Home-grown in Sacramento, CA, a multi-talent who plays Keyboards, Bass, Lead Guitar, Drums and possesses a truly individual singing style with an incredible vocal range. He founded three original bands: "CRYSTAL SPHERE" at age 16 with Mark Curry; Virgin Records recording artist-to-be and Aaron "El Hefe" Abeyta now the current Lead guitarist & Trumpet player of the world famous punk band "NOFX", next "PIRANHA" from (1985-1989) featuring the original drummer of "Tesla"; Bobby Contreras" and Joel Krueger who is the current Bassist of Frank Hannon's solo project "Kaleidoscope" and finally Calie's first successful Independent project "THE BIG BANG!" between (1989-1995), who had two songs make airplay in "A" and B rotations at 93Rock locally in hometown Sacramento,CA.
Calie recorded two original albums in the 90's and has two current projects up for sale this year 2008. His solo effort "OBVIOUS" and his latest project "TWO WORLDS" by "THE TEMPLE OF NOW" which has been recorded with friend & Engineer/Keyboardist Dave Baxley.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Same as the above Bio. I also am in a band called "The Temple of Now", which has a new CD out as well, and is on Soundclick, also.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Yes, I currently play live in my Rush tribute band"Anthem" in Sacramento,CA. I am currently looking forward to moving to beautiful upstate New York soon, and finding a band to play with near Utica. I'm moving in April of '09
Your musical influences
I love all types of music except Rap, and hardcore Country. Rush was a major influence, as well as The Indigo Girls, and Black Sabbath.
What equipment do you use?
PRS Guitars,Dillion Guitars,Johnson Acoustic Guitars, Fender Basses,Line 6 Guitar Amps,Yamaha Keyboards,Presonus Firewire Interfaces,Soundforge software for mastering. Steinberg software for recording, and all manner of VSTs for my keyboard sounds & Plug-In Effects. And, of course, my supercharged PC running windows XP sp3(NO VISTA ALLOWED!!)
Anything else?
I hope you enjoy my CD!! It is for sale on CD Baby,Amazon,Ruckus,Apple I-Tunes, and many others
