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My name is Thomas J. Oldani. I was born on September 28th, 1978. My interest in music began at an early age. I can clearly remember playing AC/DC's For Those About To Rock and playing along with my guitar then turning that off and "scratching" a Hawaiian music album to and imitating the Fat Boys. At four years old, I think a lot of people did this. I began to play guitar when I was nine. I had a rented acoustic guitar soon to be traded up for a sweet black Series10 strat with red electric lightening looking things on it. Yes I still have it. At that time I was interested in the music my Father was in to, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Tom Paxton, Jimi Hendrix, as well as music from kids around the neighborhood, as mentioned before AC/DC, Metallic, Twisted Sister, Iron Maiden and of course Weird Al Yankovic. Growing up in midwest suburban america, metal and rock was of course a huge part of my musical upbringing. I clearly remember bringing Def Leppard's Pyromania to my day care center to play while we all took naps. Classic. In grade school, I was the kid wearing the Motley Crue t-shirts quickly to be traded in for Megadeth and Slayer.
In high school I began taking the guitar very seriously and played close to eight hours a day. If I wasn't practicing I was jamming with friends and playing in a death metal band named Timeghoul. A quick Google search will have you listening in no time. I was 15 and these guys were in their mid 20's. It was a great experience.
Around the age of 16 or so I quickly got bored with the guitar and was turned on to electronic music by a friend of mine. Specifically Skinny Puppy. The perfect crossover for any metal kid. From there I began collecting electronic instruments as my guitars began to collect dust. My first sampler was an EMU ESI-32 and my first keyboard was a Korg X3 which was the first true device I used to sequence. Additionally I would find anything that made a noise, toy keyboards, cd players, reel to reels, and would improvise live music with them as well as attempt to sequence all of these instruments together on my own and with friends. It wasn't until I built my first 133Mhz pentium did I begin to use a personal computer to create music. At that time, recording to the hard disk was not possible with that type of machine so I used it as a glorified sampler. Like many others that fall into this hobby/passion, whatever you want to call it I went through many keyboards, drum machines, sequencers and samplers most of which I've gotten rid of for software versions.
Shortly thereafter I discovered through a friend audio trackers and began to use them to sequence music. That of course turned me on to more traditional sequencing programs like Logic and Cubase, back to trackers, back to traditional, so on and so forth.
The VAEG (pronounced vague) moniker came about while I was living in Orlando, Florida. I'm not exactly sure how it came about, but it seemed to fit, and has stuck with me ever since.
So that's a brief history of where I came from. This isn't my only hobby, but one that I don't think is going to go away any time soon. Hope you like the music. If you would like to collaborate or are interested in a remix, let me know.
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