Artist description I am Geoff L., and this is Damage. More music, less B.S.

Music Style Acid Rock

Musical Influences Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Black Sabbath, Rush

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Artist History I started playing Bass guitar at age 15, mainly because my best friend was playing guitar, and another good friend started taking drum lessons. when I first got the bass, I remember fiddling around with it here and there, using the button off of a flanel shirt as a pick. Eventually, I got tired of that, and started taking lessons at the local guitar shop. My two friends and I formed a death metal band named "brutality". We got together whenever we felt like it, played a little, and had a lot of fun. Once I had been playing awhile, Another close friend turned me on to the band "Rush". He made a tape of various Rush songs with great bass lines. I remember The metalhead in me grudgingly Becoming addicted. Still to this day, Geddy Lee is one of my favorite Bassists. Also around that time, I started to get better and better on the bass, and eventually graduated to a 6-string bass. Not long after that, I hooked up with a high school freind and joined another metal band called "Fearsake". Fearsake played a total of two gigs (one without a singer), and broke up. During my time with Fearsake I met a guitarist and a drummer who were both very talented. After Fearsake had disbanded, the three of us kept jamming. At times we seemed smoked more than we played, but our improvising was excellent. I still think we all knew there was a lot of magic in those sessions. It was during this time that my style was truly forming. Eventually the guitarist moved on, leaving me and the drummer with a big viod to fill. It was the best thing that ever happend to me. I loved being the only guitarist, and would soon be at the peak of my years as a bassist. I wrote my first two songs. Each, to this day remain unnamed. I was only 18 or 19 back then. I remember one night at about 2AM or so, I was getting high and just browsing the radio when I heard this groove that hooked me instantly. Not exactly what I was used to, but as wicked as I had heard. Halfway through the song, the D.J. cut in and said that we were "lucky to be listening to Miles Davis..." on whatever station it was. The song was Guinnevere, and I'll never forget it. I wanted Some Miles right away, and I got some. Standing in the Jazz section of the record store was unfamiliar territory, so I just picked the miles disc that had the freakist cover. It was Bithces Brew, and I was in my glory. With bands ranging from Led Zeppelin, Rush, Yes, Miles Davis, Weather report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and King Krimson added to my usual playlist of Slayer, Venom, Overkill, Obituary and Napalm Death, I was ready to write some twisted tales. Things didn't work out between the drummer and myself, so I went into a compositional phase. That is when I started playing lead guitar. For a while, I was Jamming with a guitarist who had a bachelor's degree in music. Our stuff was great, and we had fun playing it. Our plan was to complete our group and start giging, but I decided that it would not work out and left. The next adventure, was an interesting one. I had 4 or five tunes written, when I hooked up with another gutirast and drummer. Again, the guitarist eventually left, leaving the drummer and myself to our own devices. Those devices turned out to be considerable, and a band called "John Q. Public" was born. JQP was a milestone for me as a songwriter, as well as an emerging guitarist. I suggest you listen to Jqp on MP3.com and see for yourself. Deep down, JQP was good as hell, but deep down I wanted total control of my style. In comes Damage. Damage is the complete product of my twisted mind, and is the edge I've been looking to jump off of. From the abstract to the semi-ordiniary, I think a bands songs should encompass the complete emotional spectrum. I am bored with groups who fill cd's with songs that all sound the same. Thats not reality, thats not real life. No human being feels the same way all the time. In fact life on planet earth is usually a continues series of vastly different emotions. Damage is real life, Damage is real music. Straight from the artist, as all art should be. Some good, some bad, but all real! -Geoff L.

Group Members Geoff L.

Instruments Electric & acoustic guitars, Frettless Bass, Keyboards, Percussion, Programming, Vocals

Albums All for nothing, Life & Limb, Small Time, Stalkers Manifest, Hope's Funeral

Additional Info Four things determine the restivity of any piece of material. They are as follows; 1) Type of material. 2) Temperature. 3) Length of material. 4) Area of material. Before I talk about material type, I should discuss how current flow is generated. Current is basically electric charge in motion. When a potential difference in poliarty between two charges causes a third to react, that is current flow. So, the type of material affects resistence in this way. In solid materials, free electrons are charges that can be made to react by a difference in potential between is own charge and the charge of other materials.This reaction is a drift of electrons from one point to another. This drift occurs in the valence shell of the atom. When the potential difference is applied to the material, negative charges are repelled from the negative side of the potential, and attracted to the positive potential. To get to this positive potential, the negative charge must pass through the valence shell of the atoms, that make up that material. The negative side of the potential pushes the negative charge toward an atom; this charge is accepted by the atom. However, now that atom has one extra electron, so it passes an electron to another atom, and so on down the line. Here's the deal, Nature allows only 8 electrons in an atoms outer shell.So,if you had 6 electrons in your outer shell, there us less room for free electrons. it would be harder for free electrons to drift from atom to atom. Likewise, if you only have 2, it is easier for free electrons to drift. Materials with a high number of valence electrons are called insulators. Materials with a low number of valence electrons are called conductors. Some material can be both an insulator and a conductor at the same time. For example, listen to Damage's material. Insulated from the mainstreem ( probably a little too well), yet conducting a consistant flow of energy, sometimes as a gentle glow, and other times like a blinding arc of electrical fury, and just as random...

Location Pittsburgh, PA - USA

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