A New Band in the Making. Cool Guitarist Wanted!

Howdy. I am currently in the process of forming a new band here in Minneapolis, which is proving to be a difficult task for me these days as I've been out of the band scene for many years now. I decided to create this blog site to hopefully help spur on the process by connecting with other Twin Cities musicians as we are currently looking for a second guitar player.

I am a singer/guitarist/songwriter and I've been loosely collaborating with two friends- a bass player and a drummer. We have written and recorded a handful of songs, which are somewhat diverse in terms of style; but ultimately, I think the sound we are after is going to incorporate heavy funk/rock, psychedelic, and melodic elements that center around a solid groove. Of course, these things are always impossible to describe with any precision in words. So I thought, "Hey- instead of trying in vain to describe the sound, why not just post a couple demos?"  It makes sense, right? If nothing else, it may very well give you an idea of how horrible I am at describing my own music. So here they are....

BAND DEMOS

Move For Me

Hot Sun

My Band History

 I have played in a handful of original Minneapolis-based bands over the years which have spanned a fairly wide range of the rock spectrum style-wise. The band that I was a part of for the longest period of time was called Sled. Sled was a three-piece power trio in which I played guitar and sang lead vocals. In Sled I was a primary songwriter. It was and still is the nearest and dearest to me. Sled formed around 1994 and called it quits in 2001. For a more complete bio and to hear some songs from Sled, check out our Reverbnation site here:    Sled on Reverbnation


The most recent band I've been a part of was called Flux Box. I joined Flux Box as a guitarist in 2001 after the other three guys had already established a set of music. This was a cool new experience for me to be able to really focus on playing guitar. I didn't have to write songs from the ground up, there was another guitarist (and lead singer) who played primarily rhythm guitar, and more importantly I wasn't singing lead vocals, so it freed me up to do a lot of things on the guitar that I wasn't able to do in Sled, at least in a live situation. Here's one of my favorite songs from Flux Box called 'Gold Eyes'.

Gold Eyes, by Flux Box