Artist description teenager who plays instrumental emo hailing from Danville, VA

Music Style Instrumental Acoustic Emo

Musical Influences Falling From The Sky, Feeling Left Out, Dashboard Confessional, The Lyndsay Diaries, Mess With Texas, Dummyville, Coheed & Cambria, Special Benefits, Thrice, Saves The Day, Further Seems Forever, Park, Tokyo Rose, Nadiri, Motion City Soundtrack, Bear Vs. Shark, Autopilot Off, Acceptance, Counterfit

Similar Artists Hamilton, In September, The Lyndsay Diaries, Dashboard Confessional, Feeling Left Out, Falling From The Sky

Artist History i always tried playing guitar when i lived in Richland, Washington during my elementary school days. Maybe somebody reading this remembers me, Jacob, from their classes at Badger Mountain Elementary. haha. i moved to new mexico for 3 years and then i moved overseas. i started playing guitar just a few months before i turned 15. i was living overseas in Indonesia and my friend had a punk rock band that really introduced me to punk music and that's how i started liking it. the bassist in his band had an old guitar and agreed to sell it to me. probably only being worth around 50 bucks in the long run, it was my only means of trying to find some connection with all this new music i was listening to. i got down the basics of guitar and learned maybe a song or two but never really strived to make myself better. after a year of dinking around with the crappy guitar that was on its last life, my birthday came around again and i asked for an acoustic guitar. i was really into dashboard confessional at the time and my other friend had an acoustic duet at school, so i was going through an emo phase at the time. the guitar was cheap, but sounded good so it was no biggie. luckily my friend had tabbed out a few of his group's songs so i could learn those right off the bat. they were in an odd tuning that you'd only use if you wanted to put all the strings in harmony. it worked well for me because, being a beginner, i didnt want to have to stress with holding down a lot of strings. i quickly caught onto the style and several others, and, eventually, was able to make up harder chords which required a bit of stretch in the fingers. a few months after my birthday we moved back to the states to Albuquerque, New Mexico while my dad looked for another job. the school i was put into had a guitar class, so i thought i'd give it a whirl. there was a very very very talented guitarist in the class who helped me broaden my horizons in guitaring and i was able to become a little more experimental thanks to his help. after i had made up maybe 4 or 5 songs i went home and wondered about recording them onto my computer for fun. i found an old headset and ripped the earphones off, leaving the mic. i hooked it up to the back of my computer and brought up the default recording program that comes with every computer pretty much. i recorded the songs in an afternoon. i had no plans to do anything with them, but it was fun knowing i could record whatever i wanted to. after another month or so of guitar class and unofficial lessons, i recorded 4 or 5 more songs and left them with my other songs on my computer. i figured, "hey....i can send these back to Indonesia to my old friends." so i bought a bunch of blank cd's and burned 40 copies of my CD. i dubbed myself "Spoken Without Words" since all my songs were instrumental. my dad found a job in danville, Virginia and we moved there a few weeks later. that's where i reside now. anyways, i held onto all those burned CD's for a couple months while i figured out what i should do with them. i realized that Spoken Without Words was long and obvious and sounded a little cheesy. so i went through a new name thinking process. i live on a street called Averett Place and the name sounded catchy and short. so i adopted that as my new name, and pushed back Spoken Without Words as the name of my "album." after making some small one-page booklets off a copying machine, i sent off the copies to friends in Indonesia. those who got them seemed to like them, although there are reportedly still tons of untaken copies laying around at my friend's house. haha, oh well. by the time the CD's had gotten all the way out there, i had already started work on my second CD. mostly it was remakes of old songs that i thought would sound better if i put more effort into them. i had maybe 3 or 4 new songs, one being several old songs or riffs pasted together, Satellites & Starry Skies. i left all those songs on my computer and when summer rolled around, i burned them onto maybe 25 blank cd's and entitled the album, Rooftops & Red Skies. one day the sunset was really red so i got on my roof to see it, hence the name. satellites and starry skies was a name thought up by my friend later on in the summer, so the coincidence of "skies" in both titles was just a foul up. after i burned the CD's i left for a vacation the next day. visiting old friends in New Mexico from years back and friends from Indonesia who were in Houston for the summer. while in new mexico me and my long time friend/drummer of dummyville (check them out on mp3) set me up with a site and mp3 site. that pretty much brings us up to present day. i am considering writing a 5 song EP with lyrics on 3 or 4 of the songs, but that's just an idea for now. that brings us up to speed...who knows what'll happen next

Group Members Jacob

Instruments acoustic guitar

Albums Spoken Without Words, Rooftops & Red Skies

Additional Info working on new songs right now w/ vocals, also planning on starting a band w/ some friends here (post-hardcore/rock most likely)

Location Danville, Virginia - USA

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