BAND MEMBER NAME: Christopher Scott Murray
Nick Name: Scotty lala
Instrument: Guitar, Vocals
Birthplace: Yuma, AZ
Where I grew up: Yuma, AZ
Birthday: July 11, no one really knows what year…
Heritage: Irish, German and a little bit Indian
Family Stats: Recently Engaged..2 brothers, 1 sista and 2 parents
Gear:
GUITARS
Gibson Historic Les paul standard
Gibson SG 61 reissue
Gibson 1983 dot neck 335
Nash Tele
Duesenberg Starplayer
Martin 1968 D-28
Martin 1931 000-45
AMPLIFIERS
Vox 1968 AC-30
Fender 1964 Bassman head with matching 2x12 Cab
Orange AD-50 (hand wired) 4x12 cab
Fender 1968 Deluxe Reverb
Fender 1970 Champ
EFFECTS
Digital and analog delays
Germanium and silicon Fuzz pedals
Tube Screamer type overdrives
Guyatone stereo tremolo
Ernie Ball volume pedal
Along with many other God like tone changing devises
Favorite Book: The Far Blue Mountains
Favorite Food: Mexican
Favorite Color: Bluish
Favorite Off Day Activities: Reading
Favorite Season: Winter in Arizona and Spring in Tennessee
Favorite Bible Verse/Why? Mark12:30-31; because it keeps it simple
Favorite Sport/Team: Ping Pong / Josh Robinson
Most Embarrassing Moment You're willing to Share: The time I was shocked in the mouth from a microphone and screamed through the P.A.
If I couldn't be a musician for a living I'd like to: Be a social worker of some kind.
Describe a life changing moment: I was in third grade at school and I had the most eye opening moment ever, even to this day. It sounds silly but through events that happened I came to a realization that not everyone loved me. Until that day I never felt the need to be defensive about anything, because I truly believed everyone on earth loved me and was looking out for me.
Musical Journey: When I was in sixth grade I had a girlfriend named Krista that lived around the block from me. On the last day of school Krista threw a dance party and for the first time in this 6th grade style relationship I went to her house. Her father had the walls in one of the rooms decorated with vintage guitars hanging from the walls. I didn't know they were vintage at the time I just thought they looked really freakin cool. I never saw Krista's dad that night, but I never forgot what I felt when I saw all those guitars.
A few months into summer I still had those guitars tattooed into my brain. I hadn't seen or talked to Krista since the night of the party, but I decided I would rekindle our neglected relationship for the soul purpose of getting closer to those guitars!
I knocked on the door and waited for a long time before someone slowly answered the door. A man I had never seen before stood there looking at me like I was a retard and I said. "Is Krista home?" He kinda got an irritated look on his face and said "me and her mom got a divorce… she don't live here anymore."
He shut the door in my face. I knocked again and this time I said "Look sir… I don't really want to see her. I was wondering if I could see some of your guitars and if you can show me a little bit about them."
His name was Roy and that day was the beginning of my musical journey.
Roy was a great guitar player with great insight and knowledge of true American music, but what he wasn't was a teacher. Maybe I was to bug eyed and A.D.D. or maybe he was too grouchy, but it wasn't working.
He decided to help me develop good musical taste rather than teach me how to play guitar. He brought me to a room that was filled waist high with records and asked if I had a record player. I said I did even though I didn't and we worked out the deal of a lifetime. He would send me home with 3 to 4 records and at the end of the week I would come back to exchange them for others.
For the next 6 years I would go to exchange records at Roy's every week. One week I would have Gatemouth Brown, Queen, The Blasters and an Elvis record. The next week I might have Robert Gordon, Steely Dan, Otis Redding and Smokey Robinson.
This is the single most important experience of my musical development. Hope you enjoyed.
Insert other random Stats:
I lived in Australia for a year… bet you didn't know that.
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