Bio

BIO

If people really want to know my biography now, then buy the gull darn CD and listen to it over and over and figure me out. I'll give you hint....Listen hard _____________

Tell you what, Drums started when I was 4 years old watching the Muppet babies imitating "Animal", and pulling out pots and pans beating them with what I would soon find would be beating my butt. So soon after I got my own drums set, I was hitting them as hard as I was allowed to. Yes, I cheated and took 7 years of drum lessons from the only cat that could understand me *Lance Gilchrist*. Intrigued with his jazz playing style and with my rock roots and I learned some intensive variations of fills, solos and music theory. But after almost forgetting about music I moved on my own and the music found me. I spent days, literally days getting myself caught up on guitar to match my rhythm on drums. Soon I got a job playing bass, and got into singing harmonies, and then started developing my voice and worked even harder on singing lead and playing lead and formed 3X7 and became the Rock Band We Are Today!

J. D.

BIO

A true artist does not use his imagination, he lets his imagination use him. I am the bass player for 3X7 and have been since close to the beginning of 3X7. I always had an incredible passion, really an obsession with music, even though I didn’t start to play bass until I was out of high school. I like to say that I have the energy and soul of a lead singer and the mind and body of a bass player. I was always that guy that no one understood or even tried to figure out because just as soon as they thought I was one thing, I would do something to make them have to totally redefine their perception of me. I can’t say that my influences go directly in any direction at all. I can enjoy most everything from the heaviness and free spirit of metal like Slipknot and System of a Down to the randomness of indie rock. The powerful mentally relaxing sounds of classical music and even old country like Willie Nelson or Johnny Cash can give my ears a treat as well. I listen mostly to mellow and hard rock/metal like Chevelle, Filter, Deftones, Drowning Pool, Foo Fighters, Third Eye Blind and of course Tom Petty. I really can’t stand the fakeness of most pop music but I like the cool bands that just happen to sound poppy. I like to think I’m open to anything musically that isn’t repetitive nonsense or degenerative, de-evolving noise but even that is okay in the right/wrong state of mind, I guess.

Paul

BIO

Everyone knows what to live for when it becomes passion in stead of occupation.
I was never really turned onto music. Music really found me. I joined band in grade school and drove the teacher insane by insisting to take home and
learn every instrument possible, and then, I was eleven when my grandmother gave me one of those ancient, worthless, garage sale acoustic guitars with four nylon strings, and a stack of music books. (Still got it all too...) After almost seven years later, after giving up and starting over, and after miles of strings, teaching myself to play the guitar remains the hardest thing I've accomplished. I stuck to advancing on the guitar, not worrying about singing or writing music, but lately I've begun to work on these things. After playing alone for six years, the realization that I was "boring" myself set in. I needed something new, and wound up playing with the best damn hard rocking band in the area! Wanna know more, hit a gig and find me....

Kenny