DeepSkyTraveler is a journey in motion. What’s interesting is that this journey doesn’t really have a destination. The men of DeepSkyTraveler make music for the art’s sake, to create and enjoy the process, and to bring entertainment to those who happen to lend an ear. The fact that the music, made in entirely different studios through the very final moments of post-production, even sounds coherent is a miracle. The story of the musicians is even more magical.
In order to tell the story of the band, it’s necessary to tell the story of each invidual member. Kicking things off in this first post is Mister Timeless.
Timeless:
I started playing the guitar for two reasons. First, I thought it would get me some girls (I was fourteen years old, forgive a teenager). Secondly, I wanted to make some noise. Some weird, unique, strangle-the-thought-from-your-head noise. In those early days, I was successful only in making noise. That was good enough for me.
My dad was a drummer and my brother was a guitar player. My mom was just an all around groovy chick who was supportive of everything I did. So when I picked up my first guitar, a Yamaha 12-string acoustic (strung with only six strings) from the local pawn shop, I was never especially overwhelmed by fear or anxiety.
The guitar that started it all...
I had grown up around this kind of thing. I knew what it did; all I had to do was caress it like I knew what I was doing.
I didn’t know what I was doing.
It took a lot of time, a lot of patience, and a lot of wrangling the chaos of six independent strings stretched across a slab of wood. Then some of the first songs started trickling out of my hands. They were derivative, sure, but they were songs. They were filled with horribly contrived lyrics of a middle-class suburban white kid. Little did I know it, these were my first moments on the journey. Even in my earliest moments of playing, I was on the way to becoming a layer of solid musical foundations. I didn’t know what was happening, only that the creativity was taking me someplace.
These were my first steps towards DeepSkyTraveler.
