In December 2006, I was exposed to a kickass game called "Guitar Hero". I remember; it was the Friday before Christmas of that year. The first time I laid my once-rapping hands on that guitar controller, the spirit of Rock n' Roll grabbed me by the... well... everywhere... and never let me go. From that point on, I started listening to Rock music much more often. Then, after listening to the popular Metallica song, "One", for the first time ever in April 2007, I just said "F%%% RAP!" and started listening to rock n' roll (at the time, mostly hair metal from the 1980s), and heavy metal exclusively. On the last day of school that year, I put on another show on Guitar Hero. It was only six months after I had just started playing GH, that I was already playing on Hard/Expert. I immediately became the best Guitar Hero in my school.

Things would only get better from there. That summer, I started developing interest in the REAL guitar, and on my birthday, I got my first guitar and amp. It was a Field Green electric gutiar (one of those Les Paul rip-offs) and a Gorilla brand basic amp. After about two to three months of learning the instrument, I started coming up with ideas for songs of my own. One of these songs was "Rocker's Night Out (Next Day Hammered)", the story of a group of friends who get arrested for underage drinking and drunk driving. Another one of these songs is "A Summer in One Night (and One Party)", about a rocker who decides to throw a huge party on the last day of his summer vacation. It was - and still is - very exciting to come up with ideas for songs. When my sophomore year began, I was deep into rock and guitar. I was - and still am - thinkin' about formin' my own band. These thoughts had a serious impact on my grades that year and the next.

In November 2008, I ended up breaking my arm during gym, and was unable to play guitar for a couple of months. I still play guitar today. I haven't played GH in awhile, because my 360 is broken (video failure, not rrod). There's always Frets on Fire :).

Well, that's my story... so far...