Name: Mr. Crowley.mp3 by Shane Comer
Duration: 5 min 27 s
Description: This is a Guitar cover of the great Randy Rhoads.

This is a Guitar cover of the great Randy Rhoads. 

Mr. Crowley.mp3

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I am a guitarist who started learning to play as a teenager. I purchased a VMI guitar(Strat Knock Off) and a fender champ amplifier from the local Adams Brothers Store in Newport, Arkansas.  I was 17 when I began playing. I went back not too much later and purchased a distortion pedal because the amp was only clean. I hit the bedroom practice hard. I was in my room practicing when I wasn't working over the summer as the grounds keeper and designated painter at the Newport Municipal Water Company. I gave up football but not weight lifting for music and dedicated all my time to my craft. A lot of people were mad at me for my decision but you couldn't deny it because music was a calling. I practiced everyday my senior year of high school only time I put my guitar down was during school and when I worked a contract job reading water meters for Breckenridge Rual Water Union.  I learned mostly glam Rock songs when I started everything from Guns and Roses to White lion. Then all of a sudden an amazing thing happened.  I ordered a couple new tablature books and when they came in one was not what I ordered. Instead of getting Cinderella Long Cold Winter I was sent Randy Rhoads Tribute. I thought man they made a mistake but in reality the Good Lord set me on a course of music that changed my life forever and still influences my playing to this day 31 years later as I write this. Also, thanks to a good friend (Kenny Thaxton) in school who loves Metal music loaned me his Randy Rhoads Tribute tape and that was it.  I was changed from the inside out. That's why my core influence today is and always will be Randy Rhoads. After a couple years of dedicated practice; I put my 1st serious band together with the help of 2 great friends I met Corby Spicer(Bass) and Mike Black(Drums).  We eventually got a vocalist (Rusty Dilday) and named the band Dytrying. After, our 1st demo was recorded we replaced our drummer( Mike Black) with a new drummer(Mike Hall) who fit the band better with his style of drumming. We recorded another 2 EP's at Studio-V in Jonesboro, Arkansas with Engineer Brad Vosberg.  Dytrying played a lot during the year and half we were together. Dytrying played several shows in Newport like Shag Nastys, Hardees and Jack's Dairy Cup parking lot on flatbed trailers. Jonesboro and Little Rock, as well. After a lot of disagreements and fighting between the band and Rusty the vocalist we parted ways with Rusty. We tried a couple of ideas to start a band with the core players so after a couple months of auditioning singers; We decided on Matt Read as our new vocalist and added rhythm Guitarist(Lane Merrell). They played together in there former band Killer Klowns).  In no time at all we started writing new songs and agreeded on the name STONEHEAD. We were together from 1994 through 1997. Stonehead has a separate profile on SoundCloud with indepth information so I will only highlight stonehead. The band recorded 1 demo and 3 EP's and extensively giged in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Missouri. We received a lot of airplay in Jonesboro, little Rock, and Memphis. Stonehead also beat out over 350 bands around the south to win the Strings N Things Battle of the Bands championship. In 1997, STONEHEAD disbanded over disagreements in the bands future direction and built up rifts that occured over time and was too much to put aside. I started writing some stuff with my long-time friend and fellow guitarist (Chris Hinkle) and decided on doing a musical project with fellow friend and drummer (Mike Black). Soon after, we got Vocalist and Bass Player (John Parks) to join in on the musical project. We called the band project DragChain. We wrote a couple tunes and recorded the Lunch Box demo at Delta Sounds Studio with producer Oliver Waren over a weekend that was mixed and finalized by Danny Jones a famous recording engineer that produced a lot of famous acts like Stevie Ray Vaughn, Shawn Lane, Beach Boys, Etta James, Joe Walsh, Al Green, Patti Labelle, and Black Oak Arkansas.  The project we did was more commercial type music with a strong alternative sound. We played it around a few radio stations in Jonesboro, Little Rock, and Memphis.  I joined a band with Mike Black in Olive Branch, Mississippi and the bothers were former members of the metal band (Valhalla). We practiced a few times but we didn't have that chemistry and didn't click as a band. So, from there I have slacked a lot on guitar, writing, and gigging. Over the last 22 years I have played in a project with former drummer (Jim Davis) and did some digital recording on just stand alone tracks and songs with computers and backing tracks. I also played Guitar in the praise and worship band at Newport First Assembly of God church and The Newport Pentecostal Church of God church.  I still practice some;  a lot more in the past few months. I am hoping to jump start playing music live again and doing some recording.  I guess I will have to leave this open from here out a while until I see were music and playing guitar takes me next. I hope you enjoy these songs, compositions, and guitar playing as much as I did writing, playing, and listening to these relics of my life. 

Shane Comer
Guitarist... 🎸

Mr. Crowley.mp3

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