Lucky Is The Lion » admin http://luckyisthelion.com + Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:58:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 About Me http://luckyisthelion.com/2006/02/23/about-me/ http://luckyisthelion.com/2006/02/23/about-me/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:36:54 +0000 admin http://luckyisthelion.com/?p=392 I'm a self taught guitarist. I picked it up when I was 22. Although I was air guitaring by the age of 6. I would stand in front the mirror lip singing to Billy Joel. I wanted to be a star. Becuase of a tough childhood I never really thought that my dreams could very easily be more than fiction in my head. At one of many tough points in my life I walked into a music shop and picked up a $150 squire strat and a $50 amp. It seemed impossible at first, but once I found that first power chord, then that first rockin progression. I found that buzz that pushes all of us to pursue our passions. After a while I tried out for a few different bands. But I have always seemed to know what I should be going for and what I shouldn't. So I never did much. Then my cousin Seth brought a couple friends up to my place. He brought some new music with him like he always did and made me listen to this band called "Over Wait Kate". They said that the band was unsigned and from Detriot and that they had found them on the internet. I thought it rocked. The band was super tight. The drummer was sick and hit hard. The vocalist had power and his melodies where honestly catchy. I liked it. A few hours later my cousin asked me "So what did you think of that band Over Wait Kate?" Then he told me that the band was actually not a band at all, but his buddies screwing around in the basement. Recording on a make-shift computer, using a line 6 pod for tone and effects. It turned out that they had not planned on starting a band, but were in fact going seperate ways. They hadn't even finished highschool. But I knew with every bone in my body that there was something great. 2 months later (June of 2001) I was finally able to go down and visit my cousin and his friends. I played for the bassist and he immediatly called the guitarist/singer and begged him to get his ass out of bed and come over and play. It didn't happen. A few weeks later I had some friends over and I met the drummer. We spent several hours going through my collection rocking out to NFG, Saves The Day, Reel Big Fish, and Alkaline Trio. Not only had I finally made a friend I had been desperate to find. I had also found the drummer I had always dreamed of. He was a mini Barker. I am not kinding. The next day we went to see Saves the Day and Dashboard in Minneapolis. A few days later Dallas's(Drummer) cousin(Justin, singer and guitarist) came up to Dallas's new place in the town where I had been living and we all jammed. It was perfect! It was a dream come true. I was drunk with the buzz of passion. I couldn't believe it was really happening. That was the moment I knew that dreams are more than music videos. They can be made into reality. The very next day we all lived in Dallas's 2 bedroom apt. We played almost 50 shows in MN before the band moved to FL in the summer of 2002. We were there for 6 months. We played several shows and was even approached by the management of Lynard Skynard. We turned them down. We didn't want to sell out. We wanted an indie label. We wanted Drive Thru Records. While in FL. in turned out that a good friend of the band had left Wisc. and moved to LA. Where he got a job with DTR. After he did that for almost 6 months he and his brother decided that they were going to start a label. They called it The Double O Project. After the road they grew up on. After hearing the news we raised the money to move back to MN. We signed with The Double O Project, recorded an EP, and moved to LA. There we played all the cool clubs, made friends with cool bands, and got meet with Richard of DTR. We had no idea what we were doing. We went to far to fast and it all fell apart. It was painful. We faught all the time. It got to the point when we couldn't look each other in eye. It was bad. We went home and tried it for a while. It only got worse. In Dec. of 2003 I moved here to CO with a girl who I fell in love with while in LA. She left a year ago. I still play everyday and have just recently decided that I'm going to start my own project. I've learned alot about life and what it takes to make it. I've never had anyone to show me. I guess now I have a lot to give. I am a leader. I strive to be virtuous. My values run to the bone. Now I am a Sales Manager for the ..1 local newspaper. I manage 25 sub-contacters and over 4500 subscribers. My work ethic comes from growing up in a farming community. I was a partner and foreman for a Steel Storage Tank Construction company from when I was 19 until I was 22. My favorite thing to do is to convince the people around me that there dreams can and will come true as long as they always believe in them. Keep your feet on the ground. Know where you want to go. Understand and accept what the next step is. Be strong enough to wait and prepare for it, not to leap beyond it. Then confediently, take it. Pretty soon the wait is shorter and the steps are bigger. Then BOOM your dreams are not dreams. They're reality! The hard way gets easier and the easy way gets harder.

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