DEADAVESRADIO MAGAZINE MARCH 2014 EDITION RE-ISSUE VOLUME 1 | Page 15

-ers, so I tried out and the rest is history.” Rocky: “The Black 13 had been a band a little while before I joined up. I hadn’t played in a few years before Jeff contacted me…but it didn’t take long rockin’ with Jeff and Cody to shake the rust off.” DDR: A question for each of you…What was your first instrument you learned to play and when did you first realize that playing music is what you wanted to do? myself in the driver’s seat of that situation, which helps me better understand what I’m writing about. I take the feelings and emotions of it and I put it into words and turn it into sound…it just happens. I talk to people and really listen to what they tell me. I write about personal things, people close to me, people I have never met…situations we all go thru…just whatever hits me at the right moment. I’ll have an idea, go home and start recording the music I hear so that I can hear it all together and try different ideas. Sometimes a tune will play over and over in my mind until I get it recorded…and then sometimes lyrics will just stay with me until I find the right music that accommodates it…it could take minutes, hours, days, weeks or even years…but eventually, something will come out of everything