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Guitar and back-up vocals Age: 21 Equipment: Matin Stinger, Fender Jap-Telecaster, digeredoo. Former Groups: Sunsets, Killinger Ave., SKAasmonauts |
Alan's music career spans his whole life, even pre-birth. With both parents professional musicians and music educators trained in; jazz, classical, Broadway,and more, music is deeply engrained in his blood and soul. He began with piano lessons early but soon found guitar and trombone. From 4th grade through two and a half years of college, Alan played trombone in jazz bands, symphonic bands, and pit orchestras, but started to concentrate more on guitar around 10th grade. In 11th grade he joined a Newark-based punk band, Killinger Ave., where he expanded his songwriting. A year earlier, during a school band project the first glimpse of what would come showed itself when Alan and EF singer Tim Lund arranged a piece which included a staple gun, hammer on burlap bag of glass and other "non conventional" instruments. After the split of K.A. he formed a punk-ska-communist-fusion band called SKAsmonauts. Although the SKAsmonauts were short lived, he learned much about being in a band. Years later during a semi-serious discussion about starting a Christian-rock band to make money, Tim and Alan became serious about starting a band. Soon the original line up of Everything's Free was born. Alan hopes to have artistic and musical success with the group and to entertain all who listen. |