Well, it all started with my cousin Chris when he gave me his Kiss records when i was 4 in 1981... there was also a Police and a Ramones record. Kiss was my world. I also had a Disney disco record, Mother Goose, and John Denver with the Muppets Xmas album. Then as I moved to florida i found that my aunt trashed ALL of my records upon moving there - i was 6. Stuck with nothing but country radio for awhile, I really liked Conway Twitty's "Baby's got her blue jeans"..... (she can't help if she's made that way, it just comes naturally....) But then I got a record player again when Mom and I got a trailer of our own - I was allowed to have the FM movie sountrack... yippie... then bands like Bon Jovi, Poison, Motley crue - all that started happeneing - and i loved Poison... which led me to Pretty Boy Floyd, Faster Pussycat, Love/Hate, L.A. Guns... I also was fond of the Misfits, Minor Threat and 7 seconds at this point... then Nirvana hit... which helped me get into U2 for some reason. U2 has been my favorite band for a long time - until like a couple of years ago - the 90's was a great decade for that band artisticly... yeah U2 - and then Green Day hit the scene - which led to Op IV, Rancid, Fifteen, and gettin' into indie/locallly based music.... and while college freshman were pumpin' their woman power fist to Alanis and The Spice Girls, I found Ani Difranco's "Not A Pretty Girl" on a CMJ compilation - listed right after a Dr. Dre song.... "Not a Pretty Girl" sent me on a path to folksongerdom... my most recent favorite is Bright Eyes.
Sean began playing guitar and writing songs at 13. A year later he landed his first gig at an old rundown Daytona Beach, Florida gas station turned biker-bar dubbed Charlie's. After receiving the approval of a presumably tough audience, Sean began to realize that being a performing songwriter was his destiny. Sean performed in a number of outfits throughout high school and college. Entering his 20's in fall of 1997, he went solo and found himself in more coffeehouses than classrooms and left college to deliver pizza and perform as much as possible. Within six months he garnered a diverse following in central Florida. By the end of 1997, he moved to Buffalo, New York, where he would test his material on unfamiliar audiences. By the summer of 1998 he was included on a compilation CD sponsored by Stimulance Coffeehouse. At the opening of the disc, you hear the host announce Sean as Buffalo's finest import from Florida. Sean embarked on his first DIY east caoast tour (in tandem with fellow folkie Kim Rheul) that same summer.
Sean performed his song "... and I failed social studies that year." at the 1999 International Conference on Non-Violence, which was held at the Doctor Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The song is a narration of childhood experiences growing up in a predominantly racist community in Lake County, Florida. Personal experience is the primary source for subject matter in Sean's work. When he's not lamenting his heartbreak, or the heartbreak he has created, his voice is dedicated to explicating socio-political issues that are constantly perverted or altogether ignored by mainstream media.
The 21st-century found Sean writing and performing consistently. He began playing cover gigs in local venues such as Meehan's, Spondivits, and 37 Main. These frequent 3-hour shows helped refine Sean's performance technique, while providing him with an opportunity to expose his original material to larger audiences. He earned a second place nod for Male Musician in Southern Voice's Best of 2005 issue. The self-described 'folk-boy' has competed in Smith's Old Bar's 'Open Mic Madness' every year since it's inception, and has been a frequent finalist in the Eddie's Attic Monday Night Open Mic Competition.
In 2007, Sean has found a renewed sense of purpose as a performer and writer. This renewed sense not only involves having the time of his life performing as much as possible, in as many places as possible, but also truly being a part of what will help mankind enter into an elevated state of awareness of what it means to be human. Now that's purpose!
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Hey Kiddo! Still rockin' out, I see! I did listen to your music stream thing...that was cool: doing my homework and you singing through the speaker on my computer! :-)
Hiya Sean/Strum, just wanted to say THANK YOU for being part of and supporting the ORIGINALS and to let you know we have another event tomorrow, check our blog for more info!
Hey there, 2 GoGirls shows coming up. Acoustic at East Point Corner Tavern Sunday the 24th Rock/Pop at Smith's Olde Bar Tues the 26th. Hope to see ya at one of these. Cheers!
tx for the post! I actually adapted the name Vanity from one of my favorite authors books (Jack Kerouac, Vanity of Duluoz). But nonetheless I am still a teenie bit vain. ;O
Well, it all started with my cousin Chris when he gave me his Kiss records when i was 4 in 1981... there was also a Police and a Ramones record. Kiss was my world. I also had a Disney disco record, Mother Goose, and John Denver with the Muppets Xmas album. Then as I moved to florida i found that my aunt trashed ALL of my records upon moving there - i was 6. Stuck with nothing but country radio for awhile, I really liked Conway Twitty's "Baby's got her blue jeans"..... (she can't help if she's made that way, it just comes naturally....) But then I got a record player again when Mom and I got a trailer of our own - I was allowed to have the FM movie sountrack... yippie... then bands like Bon Jovi, Poison, Motley crue - all that started happeneing - and i loved Poison... which led me to Pretty Boy Floyd, Faster Pussycat, Love/Hate, L.A. Guns... I also was fond of the Misfits, Minor Threat and 7 seconds at this point... then Nirvana hit... which helped me get into U2 for some reason. U2 has been my favorite band for a long time - until like a couple of years ago - the 90's was a great decade for that band artisticly... yeah U2 - and then Green Day hit the scene - which led to Op IV, Rancid, Fifteen, and gettin' into indie/locallly based music.... and while college freshman were pumpin' their woman power fist to Alanis and The Spice Girls, I found Ani Difranco's "Not A Pretty Girl" on a CMJ compilation - listed right after a Dr. Dre song.... "Not a Pretty Girl" sent me on a path to folksongerdom... my most recent favorite is Bright Eyes.
