Bio

Mark Schulte

Drums

Favorite Bands:

Kiss, Alkaline Trio, Third Eye Blind, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World, Boy Sets Fire, Deftones, Bob Marley and the Wailers

Favorite Movies:

Star Wars-A New Hope, First three of the Indiana Jones Saga, From Hell, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St., Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Dracula Untold, The Wolfman, Thor-Ragnarok....too many to name

Past Bands:

Blood Separate, Close the Door, Liberty Street, Krinj, and Rosemary Device

Things I like to do:

Hanging out with my wife, daughters, and family, attending Reds games, hunting and fishing, playing drums, kayaking, and hanging out with friends.

Tidbit:

I showed an interest in the drums after my dad took me to Record Town to pick up a Michael Jackson album.  My father grabbed Kiss Alive II which showcased all four members on the cover, after seeing Peter Criss and asking my Dad what they were all about...it was over.

Brett Scharf

Vocalist/Guitarist

Favorite Bands:

Alkaline Trio , Bayside, Rise Against, Nirvana, Thrice, Rage Against the Machine, Brand New, Beastie Boys, Fugazi, Helmet, Weezer, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, At the Drive In, Sparta, Metallica

Favorite Albums:

Alkaline Trio-Crimson, Brand New-Devil and God Raging Inside Me, Pearl Jam-VS, Muse-Origin of Symmetry, Nirvana-Bleach, At the Drive In-Relationship of Command, Helmet-Meantime, The Refused-The Shape of Punk to Come, Guided By Voices-Isolation Drills, Metallica-And Justice for All, Guns-N-Roses-Appetite for Destruction

Favorite Movies:

Back to the Future, Star Wars-Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones-The Last Crusade, A Beautiful Mind, Good Will Hunting, Shutter Island, Anchorman, Shawshank Redemption, Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, anything with Tom Hanks, Fletch, Sherlock Holmes 1&2, The Martian, The Natural, Field of Dreams, All the Marvel Movies

Past bands:

Spindle, Rosemary Device

Things I like to do:

Play music, spend time with my wife and kids, Music teacher at Brossart High School, watching Cincinnati Reds, UK basketball, recording in my studio

 

Tidbit:

I learned how to play guitar by riding my bike up to the grocery store where they sold guitar magazines.  I couldn't afford them so I would take a notebook and pencil.  I would write down all the notes of the song and take them home and learn them.

Chris Saalfeld

Bass/Guitar

Favorite Bands/Albums:

Radiohead-OK Computer, Carcass-Heartwork, Fleetwood Mac-Rumors, Dream Theater-Scenes From a Memory, Slayer-South of Heaven, Alkaline Trio-Crimson, Metallica-Ride the Lightning, At the Gates-Slaughter of the Soul, Explosions in the Sky-All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, Frank Ocean-Channel Orange, Dr. Dre-The Chronic, Kendrick Lamar-To Pimp a Butterfly, Deafheaven-Sunbather, Iron Maiden-Powerslave, Al Di Meal-Elegant Gypsy. I'm kind of all over the place and it's weird

Favorite Movies:

Original Star Wars, Jurassic Park, 2001 Space Odyssey, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Idiocracy, Clerks, The Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, The Prestige The Shining, Pump Fiction, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Tidbit:

I've been playing guitar and other instruments since I was a baby.  I originally went to school for Biochemistry and somehow got roped into a music program and here I am!