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Music has always been a big love for me. It's hard to escape from it...it's there when you are sad, when you're happy, all the time. When you realize that music will never go away you can learn to embrace it.
It didn't take me a long time to discover music, that happened back in Middle School with choir. Even though I grew up with choir instead of band much like the rest of A3, I still got my fair share of music. Choir taught me discipline, and helped a lot with things like stage-fright and such. I started playing the bass in my freshman year in high school and never put it down. The band started to form right around the time that I started playing the bass, so I was invited to jam. We were all pretty terrible back then, but I was especially terrible because I was just learning.
I have written the majority of the music for the band, because for some reason it comes easy to me. The songs that I write are reflections of my heart at the time, and whatever comes out of it, came straight from my soul, which is an amazing feeling sometimes, as long as the songs turn out good. "Meet Again" in particular is one of those songs that gave me a gut feeling that it was going to be an amazing song as Chad and I sat down to write it spring of 2002.
A3 and I have evolved over time together, all the way from our first show in my driveway for my 16th birthday, to our gigs in the summer of '03 at the Illinois State Fair to our re-awakening earlier this year. I've become a better bass player, and the band itself has become better.
My influences include Stefan Lessard of Dave Matthews Band, Adam Clayton of U2, Jaco Pastorius, Victor Wooten of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and Ryan Tallent of Graham Colton Band. |
