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W h i t e
Trent White( Bass / Keys): When I was born, my family generally listened to a lot of country. Myself, I have never been to acclimated to that particular genre, so I suppose I had a bit of a late start with my music career. It all pretty much started with my sixth grade music teacher, Mr. Brookshire... who handed me a pair of drumsticks and told me this is where I needed to be. Needless to say, after several years of playing music in school, it was obvious to me that it all was a little too boring. I lacked the motivation because I didn’ t feel like I was being challenged. So I inevitably decided to drop out of that class, around thirteen years of age. I eventually, about the age of fourteen, decided my own path of musical preference with bands like; Senses Fail, Mewithoutyou, The Blood Brothers, Chiodos, The Spill Canvas, Emery, A Static Lullaby, From Autumn To Ashes, From First To Last, Norma Jean, Silverstein, etc. It wasn’ t until I started listening to this kind of music, the sort I feel most inclined to, that I actually started to have that natural affiliation towards music. I eventually ended up buying my first guitar at the age of fifteen. At this point in my life, I decided to start multiple bands, about six or seven, over the course of a few years. Now, these bands definitely had a great deal of variation, but it was all around the same typed of influences, the bands I felt the strongest connection towards, that gave me my drive to play music. I never really played any shows for money, mostly birthday parties, or small get-togethers and even playing on the street for lunch money, but it was always about having fun. Spending time with my friends and playing the kind of music we love. None of the bands really had any intentions of actually doing something big, but it was the kinship that we had for one another that really kept us going. It was about the time that I turned seventeen, when I ended up breaking that guitar and for some reason I stopped playing music altogether. Dealing with family issues, the need to be financially stable, and to further myself academically, drove me into a direction away from my dreams for quite some time. It was for those reasons that I’ ve never really played a lot of shows or been able to jam out with any notable bands, however, my love for music has always remained. Actually, it wasn’ t until recently, 2012, when I ran into an old friend from high school, Kip Newby, that I decided to pick up a guitar again. About a six year lapse. He told me about a project that he had been working on, ended up inviting me to a few shows... and well, here we are now three months later. Playing shows all over the Midwest and doing what we love. The biggest part about what really makes this all work, in my personal opinion, isn’ t our musical talent... but more so, our friendship and our diversity, that brings all of our energy into one sound, one defining tune that has a little bit of all of us and whole lot of our souls. Honestly, even if we’ re not making money, as long as I get to play music, spend time with my awesome friends, and hear people’ s cheers, I could do this forever.
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