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Justin Parker's Interests
General
This is the portion of my page that you really shouldn't read. I'm warning you right now, stop reading. There is nothing to see here.
The world wants you to be fat and lazy. Why else would we have pizza delivery, cable television, and internet? No-one wants you to leave the comfort of your bed. Stay in bed and eat. You don't even have to get up and shower. Why should you? You're just going to be in bed eating, watching TV and surfing myspace profiles.
Will you vote? Vote for someone who is least likely to lie as much as the next person. That way it won't hurt as much when they do lie.
I enjoy saying words that sound weird. Like the word "weird." I think they chose the word "weird" to define things that are weird because the word itself is weird.
"I Met Jesus In A Bar" is playing right now. 1) Why am I listening to it? 2) That wasn't Jesus. It was a Mexican with a name that was pronounced a lot different. 3) Why is this a song?
You're still reading. Why are you still here? Okay. If you melt dry ice, can you swim without getting wet?
Music
Movies
Television
Cops
Comedy Central
Family Guy
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Books
How to kill a rat with an oboe
How to lease out the space inside your nose
How to give a king a really hard time
Apartment hunting for devil worshipers
How to start a range war
The stains in your shorts can indicate your future
How to turn unbearable pain into extra income
Heroes
Superman
Batman
Spiderman
Wonderwoman
Daisy Duke
Boss Hogg
dogs
cars
stick
brown rock
spoon
hair follicle
poopy
green
huh?
About me: "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." - Plato
I've played guitar since I was twelve. I was born in 1972, so you do the math. My earliest music influences were listening to my father and grandmother sing gospel and country songs. I grew up listening to Elvis, Hank Williams, Sr., Willie Nelson, Charlie Daniels, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Alabama, and whatever else my parents listened to. Then in the 4th grade I was introduced to rock music and was influenced by Billy Squier, Def Leppard, KISS, Styx, & Men At Work. When I turned 12, my parents asked me if I wanted to take guitar lessons and I thought, hmm, okay. I always enjoyed listening to my father play guitar and since he gave me my first guitar at an earlier age I figured I should learn how to play it.
Guitar quickly became my life. My best friend and I used to put on air guitar concerts for invisible audiences. There were many a time that we were on stage with Mötley Crüe playing "Shout At The Devil" to sold out invisible crowds. My friend took up the drums and soon we were writing songs and waking up the neighborhood at 6am with our favorite song, "Wake-up Call."
I was heavily influenced then by bands like Van Halen, Ratt, Dokken, Ozzy Osbourne, Led Zeppelin, Tesla, & Metallica and had the long hair to match it. Well, I had a lot of hair. It was more of an afro than anything. I took guitar lessons from some local music stores off and on for a while, but mostly taught myself by ear until I met a great local blues guitarist, Doug McCombs, who took me under his wing and introduced me to more eclectic tastes like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Johnson, Robert Cray, Miles Davis, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton. I went on the road with his band at the age of 14 as a light engineer, guitar tech, and roadie. It was quite an experience at that age.
Ever since I've picked up the guitar, I've recorded. Most of the time just trying to emulate early Van Halen and Led Zeppelin recordings. Recording was a great learning tool; both for playing guitar and recording techniques. When I didn't have a drum set, I'd improvise with pots and pans, boxes, suitcases, pillows, and anything that made a thud when you hit it. If I didn't have a bass, I'd tune my guitar down. I was a terrible vocalist, but it was good practice. Those recordings have since been destroyed or lost on purpose.
I joined and formed many bands throughout my high school years and played with the strongest desire to "make it" in music. Although, we never amounted to much in those bands, it was always fun. When most of my high school friends moved away and went to college, I got married and later joined the army; hanging up the guitar - but not for long. I played with a few musicians here and there while in the army. I even played guitar for "Little Shop Of Horrors" at the post theatre at Fort Polk for a little while. Once I got out of the army, I realized that playing music was my life's ambition and to give it up would be a waste.
I joined a band called Box Wagon Candy Band which was a 6 peice band that played anything from folk to funk. It was an eclectic, but broad genre of music. That band split in half when we realized everyone had diffent musical paths we wanted to take. I went on to form a few other projects, before forming Perfect Mercy with an excellent vocalist that would eventually become my wife in 2006.
I decided to start recording commercially instead of just for personal use and I now run a recording studio called Crocus Lane Studios.
My wife and I moved to Nashville as Perfect Mercy took a break and we joined a rock/country crossover band. We played several shows around Nashville and got to make new friends and meet lots of interesting people. When things didn't work out with that band we realized how much we missed our family and friends back in Knoxville and we moved back.
We're currently taking a break from music while we complete the transition of moving back to Knoxville and are waiting for our Nashville home to sell ( Here's a virtual tour of that home ). I'm currently working as a 911 dispatcher for Rural/Metro EMS & Fire in Knox County, TN. I've been working on some solo material that I'll have up and running on my music page soon.
Justin is a member of BMI
Who I'd like to meet: someone who is on the earth and is not falling off of it who can breathe oxygen without gills and can handle all of the gravity on the earth without being sucked underground or propelled into space to never breathe oxygen again and that has a heart that beats inside of their chest (not on the outside) and blood that is made out of blood and not of charcoal. Someone that does not take profiles seriously. Is these questions you askin' me of important nature like? I think not, therefore I am.
It's all good, I was in a hurry to find Carico anyways. I'll be tater toting for a while on BLS until I can pounce on a bid for an ALS shift. Hope you got your check fixed!
Dude thats awesome about the house!! Hopefully this weekend we can kick this thing off!!! All the tests came back normal for Mandy so now the worry is gone she just has IBS. I have a wedding sat but i am free friday night and sunday. Friday I will have the baby tho but she can come and jam with us lol
Hello! There's this very cool rock festival going on this weekend at Vanderbilt University. Lots of great acts including my friend, Alana Grace! You can check her out at: www. myspace. com/alanagrace and check out details of this music festival at: www. ritesofspring. com to see the line-up and all other details. Lady Antebellum, Spoon and Feist are going to be there among many other artists! All happening Friday and Saturday! Alana's playing on SATURDAY at 445pm, so come check her out! You won't be sorry that you did and there's lots of great music all the rest of the evening, too.
Just trying to spread the word about her and her music because she's been very supportive of Forget-Me-Not.
Please re-post this to help spread the word and hope you're having a great week!
