: About Me

Someone once asked me why I was broke all the time, I replied that i was a college student, guitar player and writer. Their next question was why any of this mattered. I explained that the only thing they have in common is starvation, and that not being content to share the quality, my occupations in life just seemed to multiply it for good fun.

My passion is ...

Guitar playing and writing

I know too much about ...

Thins that are of no use in the real world

My parents always told me ...

shut up already

My childhood ambition ...

was to become my own person

My favorite memory ...

singing at carnegie hall ranks pretty high

Why I write ...

its a release

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Coltrane, Hendrix/Camus, and McCarthy

My first job ...

sucked, as most first jobs do

My best moment ...

hasnt happened yet, but i'm working on it

My inspiration ...

what happens around me

Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Appetite for Destruction, Guns 'n' Roses

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Appetite for Destruction may have just saved rock and roll's future. The amazing debut album from Guns 'N Roses came about at a time when hair-metal and synth-pop ruled the airwaves and was suffocating any true music to be released. What was to save the masses? The classic combo of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, that's what. Right from the delay intro of "Welcome to the Jungle", GnR's sound is established: Slash and Izzy riffing away over the solid foundation laid down by Duff and Steven Adler with Axl Rose screaming his tales of LAs mean streets, sex and drug use to top it all off. While "...

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