rockforfun87

About

*** Currently playing with Lights Out (rock/blues/country) ***
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I'm a straight up rock guitar player who's a bit of a jack-of-all-trades (and master of none!). I play lead/rhythm/acoustic, sing a bit as well as play some bass and keyboards. Been in a few bar bands and gig'ed out - usually on lead but comfortable doing rhythm and/or sharing leads. Even do a semi-acoustic solo gig as "Simply Me" from time-to-time. Rooted in up-beat rock classics but really enjoy straying into modern rock or even blues/country to mix it up. Lots of 80's influence but not flashy, no ego - just in it for the fun and playing out on occasion (got career, family, etc). Mostly enjoy covers but have written/performed plenty of originals as well as a "quick study" at learning other peoples material. Drug free, no drama, team player, reliable, good communicator and no fear attitude in terms of song selection and playing out in front of a crowd!

Influences

Cover songs that I've played out with other bands (partial list):

*** Classic Rock (80's and prior) ***
Bad Company - Feel like makin'/Shooting star/Can't get enough
Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama/Gimme 3 Steps/Simple Man/Gimme back my bullets
Marshall Tucker - Can't You See/Desert Skies
SRV - Pride and Joy/Cold Shot/House is a Rockin'
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me/Nothin' but a Good Time/Every Rose
Van Halen - Panama/Really Got Me
Kid Rock - Born Free/All Summer Long
Mellencamp - Play Guitar/Hurts So Good/Pink Houses
Mellencamp - Crumblin' Down/Authority Song/Jack-n-Diane
ZZ Top - Gimme all your lovin/Tush/Sharp Dressed/Just Got Paid
ZZ Top - Fool for your Stockings
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive/Bad Name/Livin' on a Prayer
Grand Funk Railroad - American Band/Some Kind of Wonderful
KISS - Rock-n-Roll All Nite
Free - All Right Now
Queen - Fat Bottom Girls
AC/DC - Back in Black/Shook Me/Whole Lotta Rosie
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me you love me/Goodbye
Doors - Roadhouse Blues
Kenny Wayne Shepard - Everything is Broken/Blue on Black
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69/Cuts like a knife/Run to you
Bob Seger - Old Time Rock-n-Roll/Fire Down Below
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
George Thorogood - Move it on over
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Black Crowes - Hard to Handle
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell/White Wedding
Whitesnake - Still of the Night/Here I go again
Loverboy - Workin' for the Weekend/Dangerous
Judas Priest - Livin' after midnight
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Ozzy - Shot in the Dark
Robert Plant - Bad case of lovin' you
Sammy Hagar - Can't drive 55
Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Pat Benatar - Hit Me with your Best Shot/Heartbreaker
Romantics - What I like about you
Foreigner - Hot Blooded
Eagles - Take it Easy
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Tommy Tutone - Jenny/867-5309
Beastie Boys - Fight for your Right
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Sytx - Blue Collar Man
Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy
Pink Floyd - Young Lust
Tom Petty - Wreck Me/Breakdown/Free Fallin'

*** Alt/Modern Rock ***
Eve 6 - Inside Out
Creed - What If
Alice in Chains - Man in the box
Bush - Machinehead
Silverchair - Tomorrow
Shinedown - Save Me/Fly from the Inside
Theory of a Dead Man - Bad Bad Girlfriend
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
Nickelback - Saturday Night/Rock Star
7Mary3 - Cumbersome
Maroon 5 - Harder to Breathe
3 Doors Down - When I'm gone/Kryptonite/Not My Time
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush/Interstate Love Song
Tool - Sober
Offspring - Self Esteem
Collective Soul - Better Now/Gel/Shine
Stone Sour - Through Glass
Seether - Rise Above This
Three Days Grace - Break

*** Country ***
Jason Aldean - She's Country/My Kinda Party
Chris Young - Tomorrow
Warren Brother - Sell A Lot of Beer
Keith Urban - You Look Good in My Shirt
The Lost Trailers - Holler Back
Dierks Bentley - What was I thinkin'/Sideways/Am I The Only One
Headhunters - Walk Softly on this heart of mine
Hank Jr - Hank Done it this way/Country boy can survive
Luke Bryan - Country Girl Shake it for Me
Brooks & Dunn - Neon Moon
Garth Brooks - Friends in low places
Martina McBride - Independence Day
Big-n-Rich - Save a horse, Ride a Cowboy
John Denver - Country Roads

*** Originals ***
Lights Out (southern rock)
Into You (modern rock)
Come home with me tonight (dancy blues)
Time to get away (modern rock)
Delicate Mayhem (hard rock instrumental)
Nothin' wrong with yesterday (acoustic)
That ain't no way to go (dancy blues)
Fishin' song (acoustic)

And many more...

Equipment List

Fender Deluxe Strat, Fender Standard Strat, Tradition Strat, Jackson EMG Dinky, Les Paul copy, Ibanez bass, Alvarez acoustic and Ovation Celebrity (acoustic/electric)

Marshall JCM2000 40-watt combo (all tube)
Digitech RP355 guitar modeler
Digitech BP90 bass guitar modeler
TC-Helicon VoiceTone Harmony-G
Casio CTK-5000 workstation/keyboard
Cakewalk SONAR Software (DAW)
Alesis 8-channel mixer w/effects
*** PA system ***
(2) 12" 190W powered speakers w/poles (Mackie's)
(2) 12" 180W keyboard/PA amp (Behringer)
(1) 15" 160W keyboard/PA amp (Crate)
(2) 15" 150W mains cabinets
(3) 10" 75W stage monitors (Kustom)
Power amps, EQ's, DI's, and Furman power conditioner
Shure and AKG mics w/stands
Wireless guitar system (UHF)
Wireless mic system (VHF)
And miles of cables!