Imagine bands like The Smashing Pumpkins, Guns N' Roses, Creed, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, Rage Against The Machine and Filter replacing their singers with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai or Eric Johnson. Yeah, it's something like that.

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ROCK: Hard Rock, ROCK: Instrumental Rock



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âThe earliest memory of my musical odyssey was hearing the song âGirls, Girls, Girlsâ by Motley Crue. I was 5 years old at the time, and ever since that moment I knew that this was the style of music appealed to me the most. However, I began to take notice of other styles of music. At the age of 6 I heard the song âRunninâ Down A Dreamâ by Tom Petty, and while not as heavy as The Crue it still had that same quality of likeness to it that I could not resist. From then on I listened to everything that was being played on the radio at the time; Guns Nâ Roses, Metallica, Nirvana, Def Leppard, and even Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis and James Brown on the oldies stations.â

âAt the age of 11 I started playing the violin and playing for the schoolâs string ensemble. Thatâs where I learned about classical music. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Vivaldi are just a few names of the dozens of composers that I have covered on the violin. I played the violin throughout middle school and high school, while taking violin lessons, playing for the string ensemble and symphony orchestra as well as playing solo with accompaniment and for various string quartets, not to mention playing at the 2001 State Solo & Ensemble Championships at Eastern Washington University. I still play the violin to this day.â

âWhen I entered high school, I started listening to some of the more popular alternative rock and heavy metal bands at the time; Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Tool, Pantera, White Zombie, Rage Against The Machine, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Sonic Youth, as well as the Seattle bands such as Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Screaming Trees. I was introduced to the high school radio station, KTCV 88.1 The Alternative, where I first heard the local bands from around the area I grew up in, including Loudermilk, The Ladybird Unition and Spydial. From there I also began studying the legends of rock music, such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Rush, The Rolling Stones, U2, Lyndard Skynard, and Peter Frampton just to name a few. Out of all of these great bands and artists, none of them had the kind of impact that The Gone Jackals had for me. They were featured in the greatest Lucasarts adventure game of all time âFull Throttle,â and the moment I heard the song âLegacyâ I knew that I wanted to play music like that.â

âAt the age of 18, my musical odyssey would soar to a whole new level as I bought my first guitar in the summer of 2000, and from then on I never put it down. In 2002 I joined my first official band, Paid Programming, with some friends from high school. Songs were written, jam sessions were productive, but unfortunately no gigs were played and the band dissolved once I made the decision to go to college that same year to study digital audio engineering at Shoreline Community College in Seattle, Washington. After graduating from SCC with an associates degree in 2004 I met with Jeff Sitton, who played multiple instruments including the trumpet, acoustic and electric guitars as well as bass. We started having jam sessions together and he eventually recruited his cousin to play drums, and the band Chaosphonic was born. We recruited a second guitarist and vocalist Gary Fisher who wrote lyrics for some songs that I have written. We started rehearsing at Garyâs house in Finley, Washington, and we played a couple of shows. Unfortunately, Gary departed from the band after the second show, so Jeff and I began to revive the band from the ground up. We recruited a second vocalist, whom we played one show with, and soon our drummer departed from the band. We then recruited another drummer, but unfortunately our creative differences interfered with our rehearsals, and soon Chaosphonic dissolved."


ââInflexableâ is a collection of songs that I have written with Paid Programming, Chaosphonic, in between and beyond. Imagine bands like The Smashing Pumpkins, Guns N' Roses, Creed, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, Rage Against The Machine and Filter replacing their singers with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai or Eric Johnson. Yeah, itâs something like that. Most of the songs that I wrote for Paid Programming have evolved from their original versions, and I had originally written lyrics for most of them but have decided to replace them with guitar melodies in a similar style to that of Peter Framptonâs 2006 release âFingerprints.â Gary Fisher wrote lyrics for the songs âIch Bin,â âEternity,â and âEnemy,â and while they are not used he still is credited for cowriting these songs. The legacy of Paid Programming and Chaosphonic will continue to ride on, and will remain in the arms of the album âInflexable.ââ