Mark Garrod - lead guitar and vocals -
Roger belanger - Drums and samples On Dirt Road -
Dan Mondor (Inner Fire Records) Recorded all songs except Dirt Road and Barrel of a gun and also played bass and did back up vocals.
I was born in Windsor, Ontario but I moved to Ottawa when I was 1 year old with my family, I have always loved every kind of music and I think I have my Heroes in every style to date like Robert Johnson (Blues) Liona boyd ( Classical ), 3 Doors Down ( Rock ) Metallica, Kiss ( Metal ) and much, much more the list goes on forever ! I remember when I was about 9 years old watching my parents friends playing guitar and singing during a living room party on the weekends and I guess that brang my older brother to take a interest in playing guitar ! My older brother bought his first guitar and learned a few chords from our weekend guests from time to time and I remember him telling me to stay out of his room and don’t touch his guitar! Well every chance I would get when he left the house I would be playing that guitar like I owned it and I remember from day 1 I was not scared to break strings. Watching people teach my brother helped me to catch on fast, everything he was taught I remembered from watching and knew how to play almost right away, back then my brother was into Hard Rock/Metal ( Ozzy, Crue, Iron Maiden, Priest, ect…) I remember getting home from a day at the park and my older brother was watching a Ozzy video on TV and it was the song “Lightning Strikes” from The Ultimate Sin Record, I WAS SOLD ! Jake E Lee from that day was one of my Idols and I wanted to be just like him! so after many years of playing on my brothers guitars when he was not around my parents finally gave in and bought me my own guitar and little practice amp for Christmas when I was about 15 and at this time I was into guys like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani ! One thing I’ve always been told is that I catch on and learn very fast! joining with new friends I met in high school to start a band got me started playing in front of people and taught me how to show off the best I could during high school talent shows and lunch hour jams playing Purple Haze and Iron Man I grew up most of my life listening to more Heavy Rock and Metal and that to this day never changed! When I was 29 I met a guy named Leon who ended up being my acoustic mentor! the guy could finger pick like I never seen anyone do it before and was very determined to learn what he wanted to play, in my eyes he mastered classical guitar just by going to websites on the internet to show him how to play and listening to songs I never even knew existed and I don’t think I ever got enough of hearing him play! One day we decided to start jamming together and he gave me the drive and ambition to start writing my own Easy Listening Rock music that reflected on my life! We ended up playing guitar together for a few years as we ended up roommates and to this day I will never forget the day when we parted ways he handed me his Black Fender Cutaway acoustic Guitar, The whole time I knew him and played music with him this guitar has been my side kick and we use to argue about who got to play it and laugh, he had 3 acoustic guitars but that was the one I was addicted to! Knowing how much he loved that guitar I could not accept this great gift and I was very stunned! He set the guitar down in my new apartment and looked at me and said “from one brother to another, Keep writing music” as cheesy as it sounds it almost brought me to tears but I never stopped writing music because of him, so as a part of this BIO I would like to thank him for that and I wish to this day we still played guitar together but lives daily chores kept us from doing so! Now the years have been going by and I have written many, many songs and it’s time I try and show it to the world!!
We would like to thank CKCU for giveing a shout out for our brace the will myspace site over the air and playing Dirt Road Tread Lightly Rocks ( Thank's Lisa), cheer's and hope to hear CKCU for many years to come !
So you suck... but i totally just watched your video for the first time with your munchkin in it who is more adorable then words and it was amazing and touching.... the love you to have for eachother is so special rock on... btw you really suck!!!!!
Hi there Brace the Will first of all we'd like to say thanks for being our myspace pal. We wanted to make sure you knew the reason incase we suddenly vanish off of your friends list. The movement we've started for indie artists has grown significantly and consumes all of our time these days. We seldom sign into our myspace account and this is making several people believe that we are ignoring them. We are not ignoring anyone, we wanted everyone to know that. What we're doing has become so busy we just don't have the time for myspace any longer, so in all honesty we are probably going to just close our myspace account.
Many people wanted to use us in the future so if you were one of those people make sure you bookmark the link below so that in the event that we do close our myspace account you won't lose contact with us. I wish you the best of luck in your music career. Thanks again for being our myspace pal.
We have also built a pretty big music community which you are welcome to join if you want to meet new artists like yourself!
