![]() Then I heard Motorhead and I loved them just as much as the bands where only virtuosity reigned like Rush and Van Halen, bands who played Madison Square Garden and were in all the magazines, which I started my first band REPORTED MISSING at age 14 with kids from my high school playing my original songs and trying our hardest to be like Rush. Never went through a cover band stage either. I didn’t take lessons or learn how to play the songs of bands I loved, and still don’t, and I How to play anything so I began writing my own songs because writing music was my only way to play music. And in my ignorance I thought “bass must be easier because it has less strings” so when I was around 14 years old I asked my father for a bass and I took to it immediately. It had a bird on the pick guard, I hated it, so I never Geddy Lee and Chris Squire were the guys who really began to stand out to me and the acoustic guitar my dad gave me was boring me. But kept listening to music with an eye to playing, As a result I think my unformed brain rebelled against the consolation prize, and I ignored the instrument. ![]() Parris: I had a false start, when I was 13 years old, and knew I wanted to play music but didn’t actually know what that meant or how to go about it so I asked my dad for a drum When did you start playing guitar? Who or what influenced you to play guitar? Did you take lessons, or were you self-taught? We hope you check this out and enjoy thisįirst installment! HC G.A.S. This interview is super long but jam packed with a ton of info and Cro-Mag backstories that we are happy Parris was able to share with us. First up on our list is Parris Mayhew of Cro-Mags fame and now ofĪggros who debuted “Rise Of The Aggros” earlier this year while also introducing Crumbsucker guitar great Chuck Lenihan into theįold as well. Although geared towards musicians these interviews should produce enough stories to keep non-musicians satisfied as well. The feeling was that there are “big rock” magazines out there that do this very thing BUT not so much within the hardcore More about their instruments, amps, strings, how songs come together etc. Were on the 1989 New Breed Cassette Compilation (look ‘em up!) recently got in touch with me telling me how he wanted to see interviews with musicians from the hardcore punk scene where they talk My old friend Andrew Monserrate from the band Stand Proud (they G.A.S.” which stands for “Hardcore Gear And Style”. Welcome to the first installment of “H.C.
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