Background
Hello there fellars! I'm gonna tell yall about my past, which includes: enormous amounts of food, monkeys, girls with cooties, girls without cooties, my love for creamy peanut butter, and oh yeah, drums! Well… it all started when I was a wee young boy of a wee young age of about 7. My Mexican friend ("Hispanic friend" for all you politically correct peoples) Jonathan, who lived across the street, invited me to his house. So I said, "Okey doke." I went over there and saw in his room a drum set of a shiny blue demeanor. I was in awe as I stood next to these towering mountains of noise. He busted out the ol boom box and whipped out some Phat Tejano tunes. As he played I knew I was destined to be ………A TEJANO DANCING TAMBORINE SHAKER PERSON. Actually that's not true, but I did know I wanted to be a drummer so I went home and busted out the good old pots and pans. I hit away for hours every day until my mom got sick of buying new pots and pans, so she decided to get me a drum set. She bought me the set when I was 7, and that began years of my constant pounding on drums. I took lessons, but hated them when I was younger because I just wanted to beat the poop out of my drums. I saved up my money and bought a nicer set ("Tama Rockstars") than I had before, and it remains with me to this day. I met my good friend Clay Roberson, who plays guitar, and started jamming with him and my friend Patrick Middleton who plays bass. I met Josh and yadadayadayadahoodieyoohoo (that's already in the band bio). So anyway I started jamming, and making hardcore gut metal with josh and my friend clay (haha it was pretty funny) and that's why Patrick slowly left the scene, because he was wise enough at his age to realize that our music just didn't have da funk to it. I also started playing music with the youthband at my church and God opened up so many doors after that. I played with numerous bands at school and with friends.
Musical Influences
As an ankle biter, I was big into rap and I loved to play basketball, so I had the perfect solution to my passions as a child. I decided I would turn into a black man so I could do both. My hopes were shattered when someone revealed to me that I couldn't turn into an "African American"(politically correct). I argued that Michael Jackson turned into a white person, and that vanilla ice was almost black, but my argument crumbled along with my dreams of being black. I then turned to rock later on in my elementary years, and then to hardcore underground metal and punk through out middle school. Then as I matured in Highschool I came to the realization that the hardcore metal was giving me too many headaches and that all the punk bands I was listening to were all the same (There are still a good select few punk bands out there, but it is rare). So I branched out to funk, Jazz, and Latin, and I am currently in two jazz bands. I have tried to incorporate my different influences of music into Nothing More.'s music. Some of the bands I'm listening to or have been listening to for years are: Blindside, grammatrain, spoken, galactic, finger eleven, living sacrifice, chevelle, project 86, keith green, embodyment, dream theater, sevendust, r.a.t.m., dredge, yes, led zeppelin, P.O.D., creed, ben folds, dave mathews band, incubus, tool, pax 217, skillet, disciple, nickel creek, aqua bats, redline, switchfoot, and many others. I would say that in my drumming I am most influenced by Mike Portnoy.
Motivation
The band and I would also like to say that we write, record, and perform music not just because we love it, but to glorify God with the gifts He's given us. God's done so much for us and we just want to share that with others through our passion, music. Well that is all I have to say, goodnight!