Guitar, vocals, keys
Drums, percussion, vocals
Bass, vocals, keys
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My approach to lyric writing and constructing music is to serve the germination and evolution of the song. Not every song needs a guitar solo or even a lot of pronounced guitar playing. When there is a solo it has to continue and support the conceptual story of the song. My top guitar influences include Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Greg Lake, Ian Anderson, Randy Rhoads, Jeff Martin, Brent Hinds, and Pepper Keenan, but there are a myriad of other players on an eclectic array of instruments and in various musical styles that influence my approach to music. I love my bandmates and I love our fans. Listening to music saved my life and influenced the course of everything I do. If our music can create emotion, support, and a feeling of belonging for our fan base, then I have achieved my goal.
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For me, music is an obsession. I don't use music to live; I live to experience music. From early Kiss to Black Sabbath's 1st album, Led Zeppelin 2, and AC/DC's Let There Be Rock, I knew music was going to be a lifelong focus from the start. I was young and impressionable, staying up late wearing big chunky headphones while scanning the radio dial for cool new artists/songs to share with friends the next day
My creative journey through various projects and bands has yielded great experiences as well as challenges. All of it has helped me define where I want to be with my playing, style, and quality of people.
If I'm growing and enjoying the process, I'm in the right place. Melancholy Circus values songs, stories, and creativity. The best human beings you could ever ask to be around, with a style and aesthetic matching those early days listening to music on a big hi-fi, and the excitement of sharing a musical journey at every show and rehearsal.
We play Rock & Roll with thought-provoking lyrics and dark musical nuances. Sometimes it's heavy, doom, and dirge. Sometimes it's melodic and wistful. Sometimes it's uplifting and joyous. Our focus when creating a song lies in the idea, feeling, and flow of the concept, not adhering to some musical genre.
Melancholy Circus takes the boiled-down essence of influences from a life lived and examined, from music, literature, history, and cinema and creates plains of dissimilar existence and deep caves of thought that touch upon the dark irony of life.
Unafraid to reveal, view, and display the beauty in all things, Melancholy Circus creates visuals and soundscapes of desire, love, life, hope, and lament. Every song is different and every song is tied together. The name Melancholy Circus is the juxtaposition of dissimilarities, and isn't that what life truly is when you stop looking on the bright side and start looking at all sides.
