tcnm issue 13

plan your next night out with the tcnm flyer gallery inside

THE GUITAR GODS SMILED UPON ME

WHERE LOVERS GO TO DIE

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Front Page Adicript Other Photo Credits Stefan Adcock Participating Bands and their media affiliates Marketing Advertising Director Shawn Ernst EditorGraphic Design M Montez Contributors Johnna Dean Shawn Ernst M Montez Stefan Adcock Tonya Whitworth

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Founded 2013 Hometown Santa Rosa California Genre RockProgressive Rock Adicript is an intelligent blend of well composed beautiful progressive hard rock Smart lyrics with substantial mean-ings and messages supported by creative energetic guitar riffs bring to life deep sentiment relatable by all Drums and powerful bass tracks move every song forward with a distinct progressive fashion

George Cudworth (Lead GuitarVox) David ldquoMammothrdquo Gray (Drums) Dustin Covington (Lead VoxKeys)

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How did Adicript get started

George - I met Dustin when I was 20 and we played in a band for like 3 weeks the band fell apart and Dustin went in the military and got stationed at Fort Hood I then moved to Hollywood where I went to music college Dustin called me and said he was bored and I should move out to Texas after I graduat-ed I was like ok and I sold everything and went to Texas

Dustin - George came back 2 years ago

George - When I moved back I moved in with Brei and started a project where I wrote mellow stuff A year after I got back I met David and he had an ad stating he was looking for good musicians We got in contact and 3 weeks later David bought a new drum set and I bought a new guitar I went through this huge classic rock faze

David - Yeah I then played this crazy riff and we went from there

Dustin - I got involved a few weeks after all that I was like behind the closet not remotely ok with being in a classic rock band I knew where his head was at in the past and I just waited it out to see where it would go

When Adicript was in its feeling out stages did you know you all would be a progressive Rock

band or did it just happen

David - None of us knew how progressive we could play until all of us started jamming

What can fans expect from the EP

Dustin - More dynamics

George - More progressive

Dustin - This EP in general features us playing a lot harder for one 2 songs are a lot harder dynamics like I said

David - Definitely more progressive

Dustin - Our demos were pretty straight forward a couple singles and a ballad I feel like if the North Bay Underground was still going on we would put Through The Gray on there

Why did you name your band Adicript

George - I wrote a song Adicript It was about taking acid 7 years ago and then I met him and said we should use it as our band name

Dustin - Itrsquos great for search engines because when you type it in you will find Adscript or Adicript

I heard the Bay arearsquos local scene is doing well and heard from others that it is not What are

some obstacles you guys have faced

George - There is no scene

Dustin - I am on the opposite side of this spectrum I donrsquot know what scene they are talking about If yoursquore a DJ and want to play in Sonoma County you will find a gig and make good money doing it because everybody wants to hear that all day For a band that is trying to be progressive there is no scene for that

David - there are performers with good stage pres-ence but there are all these bands that have one real-ly good musician and the rest kinda bring that down Thatrsquos a part of the hard rock metal scene that I see

What is your opinion on The Prog Rock metal

scene in Norcal

David - I havenrsquot really seen any other progressive rock bands

Dustin - 7 years ago I was in a progressive rock band but we were more like Dream Theater progressive rock I used a keyboard kind of deal with consistent change all over the place

George - There was a really good metal scene when I was in High School but that died out quickly too

I can hear specific genre influences in your music like In the Name Of what genres are the most influential and does that make it challenging to

place your band in a particular genre

George - I think progressive rock is the easiest to put up front

Dustin - I would like to just say we are a hard rock band Throwing the word Prog in there just opens it up more than we are actually going for We do have influences but what we are doing is relatively easier to follow

George - And we have good rock choruses

What are Adicripts plans

George - Play shows and more shows

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I t was a nice warm beer fueled day at the Press Club in downtown Sacramento where I first saw Infinite Vastness The first thing that caught my

eye was the impressive set up their keyboard player Alex Severson brought with him It seemed to domi-nate the stage left area and I knew there was some-thing special about these guys Once everything got set up the rest of the band hopped up on stage and immediately blew my mind Taylor Clark their guitar-ist and lead singer had a mellow and raspy voice to him that complemented his old-school rock style of guitar playing Clarkrsquos driving rock mixed really well with Seversonrsquos keyboard additions that went all over the place in terms of sounds Backed up by Bill Bur-nett on bass and Julian Herbert on drums they not only brought old school space rock to the table but they showed an unbridled passion on stage As their music hit its incredible crescendo you could see that each and every member of the band was pouring their all into their performance Herbert was pounding his kit like there was no tomorrow and Burnett had the hair flying to complement his thundering bass By the end of it I had a serious case of whiplash

After that whirlwind of musical fusion I caught up with them a few days later out in West Sacramento They were all hanging out minus Herbert this particular night I was able to speak to Herbert outside of this

particular instance but he had plenty of things to say that went along with what the rest of the band told me

Infinite Vastness formed in February 2013 with Bur-nett joining the band later in February 2014 and has been playing all over Sacramento since then And throughout their musical journey they have been able to utilize their wide variety of musical influences Clark and Burnett have both been brought up on a lot of classic rock with Burnett focusing on a lot of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Primus since picking up the bass Severson is a bit of the odd man out when he tells me I was a rave kid and then Ive been producing hip hop for about 6 years Then I met up with these cats and I knew like 2 or 3 Zepplin tracksI also like the blues so that helped as wellhelliprdquo He also adds ldquoI like weird noises Ive been producing for so long that if its weird it adds something like a new elementhelliprdquo Herbert tells me later that his main influence for his drumming is ldquoJohn Bonham there is no other when it comes to rockinrsquo peoplersquos facesrdquo He also says ldquoI know if I play with my heart itrsquos gonna be loud kinda like Bonhamrdquo

You would think that a bunch of guys so like minded and passionate would have known each other before but thatrsquos not the case They all happened to meet at Sac City College where Clark was taking recording

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100tell the wolves

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1 MICHAEL TIFFANY

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3 FATE UNDER FIRE

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7 riotmaker

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9 march into paris

100pilgrim

1 in the silence

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3 kill the

precedent

4 boyce

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were robots

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manhattan

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100motorize

1 SWIM

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classes under the guidance of John Villec Clark remembers ldquoI went back to school for recording where I met these guys just to meet people We started off with a bunch of stuff that I had and kinda added to it since it was just guitar trackshelliprdquo From there they were able to morph into the rock group that they are today

Infinite Vastness bills themselves as a jam band and the mentality that goes along with it has aid-ed their creative process in many ways Sev-erson remarks ldquoA lot of stuff happens where we are at band practice and someone was screwing aroundthen it became a jam added to a song to either me or Taylor had writtenrdquo Burnett also adds ldquoWe have even got to the point where we write songs live on stageat a show at the Poo Frog Ranch [in Clipper Mills CA] we had peo-ple tell out two letters and just went with it from thererdquo

ldquoYeah the F to B one [song] got kinda awkward (laughs)rdquo interjects Severson Herbert under-lines this process in his own words by ldquoWe are bringing that original soul of rock music back to the tablewe do this because we love itthatrsquos all that mattersrdquo Herbert even remarks that at that same show he played his kit so hard that the snare drum stand he was using broke under the beating that it took If thatrsquos not passion I dont know what is

Infinite Vastness has taken all these ingredients that make them a great band and focused it into a 4-song EP ldquoNew Pagerdquo that they recorded out of their rehearsal space out at Sacramento Rehearsal Studios Their recording education is very prevalent because the EP which is availa-ble on soundcloud is very well polished and sounds very professional They do have addi-tional aspirations to record a full length album but according to Clark ldquoWe wanna record it live [in studio as one] so we can capture the energy that comes with playing livehelliprdquo

Whatever direction their music takes them be sure to stay abreast of it as best you can They have their complete EP available on soundcloudcominfinitevastness as well as links to the same songs on their Facebook pro-file You can even follow them on Instagram for fun snapshots of their studio time and live ad-ventures Be sure to check these guys out be-cause their jamtastic journey is only just begin-ning

-Stefan Adcock


Zen Arcadia is a reference to a couple of our influences and it sort of fits in the yin-yang theme of Zen as wellhellip There was a big underground band in the 80s called Husker Du which started out as a hardcore punk outfit in Minneapolis and over time gradually changed into what would become the blueprint for modern alternative rockpop (which provided the basis for Nirvana Soul Asylum and tons of others) and the point at which they really began to change was an album titled Zen Arcade in 1984 About the same time Duran Duran which then was the most popular synth pop band in the world formed a side project called Arcadia and released an album of darker moodier material that was the underside of what they ordinarily were known for So you have these two halves of light-hearted pop and heavier punkmetal underground swirling together in various mixes and by combining the two it perfectly describes what it is that Zen Arcadia is trying to blend with our sound Even in our logo - the swoop that goes around the ZA is the Buddhist symbol for Zen and represents a connectedness of existence The bottom line being that were going to be who were going to be and rather than try to pigeonhole it into a safe category wed rather embrace itrdquo -Dennis Bodine (Front Man to Zen Arcadia)

A side from preparing for their performance at v103 Rockfest Zen Arcadia a 4 piece band from Sacramento CA was preparing for the

completion of their full length album Earthquakes I actually got the opportunity to listen to the new album and I must say I am more than impressed This band has been around since 2010 and from day one they have sat in the background silently preparing to cre-ate an astounding statement while others fumbled around looking for a way to maneuver around the politics and basic obstacles that most local bands face I feel pretty damn confident in saying the silence has been lifted and they are here louder tighter and hungry

Sacramento is a city that has definitely felt the down-fall of local music in the past While there were dark periods of local music there were still bands lurking in the shadows performing all around town and one of those bands was Zen Arcadia Every time I talked to any of the members it was like showing up to a family dinner except at my family dinners never included bro

hugs and talk of music I have a boring family

There is one thing that really gets under my skin arrogance I understand taking pride in your accom-plishments but a wise man once told me A local scene in my humble and learned opinion is only as good as the collective group of players which inhabit the entirety of the talent pool All of us with differing styles tastes clothing sets and attitudes make up an entire snapshot of greatness No one band defines a local scene Perhaps there are a few who rise to the top but in truth a big egotistical fish makes the pond harder for everyone to swim

But with Zen Arcadia having that egotistical attitude does not exist They are in my opinion one of the most humbled bands I have come across and after listening to their album Earthquakes about 40 times within a 2 day period I immediately praised them for their accomplishments Of course they responded with nothing but absolute humility

From tracks like ldquoBeing Bornrdquo to ldquoWake Uprdquo and every


other track in between they have created a diverse sound that is unprecedented with edgy energetic rock that takes you on a ride deeper into their roots of al-ternative rock coupled with metal So now that you have been given a little taste of what to expect lets take you deeper into who these secret musician assassins are

In 2010 Zen Arcadia stepped foot into the local scene hoping to utilize their past experiences in music to progress their careers as musicians As we go deeper into these young menrsquos pasts you will begin to read how it all began this is Zen Arcadia being born

When I was a kid my mom used to say ldquoOnce you learn how to tie your shoes you will no longer fallrdquo I swear she thought she was the Joker and I was bat-manhellip all her damn riddles but the same applies to members of Zen Arcadia except they tie their shoes a little different than I They use guitar strings not shoe strings Dennis Bodine (AKA DB) is a very talented musician with a collective history that shows through his work His tenacious vocal range takes a hold of you as thoughtfully crafted lyrics beckon you to relive pastpresent experiences with him

From 1996 to 2000 DB was in San Francisco singing and playing guitar for the band Hitch In 2001 he be-gan singing for the metal band Phrenik The band re-ceived many praises and won awards such as the Writers Choice Award for 2003 Best Live Band by Sacramento News amp Review Budweiser True Music Artist appearing on a Budweiser CD attached to Au-gust 2003 issue of Blender Magazine They were elected by Disturbeds Dan Donegan to open for the Music as a Weapon Tourrdquo They also played The Vans Warped Tour 2 years in a row and appeared on KRXQ 98Rockrsquos CD Sac Rocks Volumes 8 9 and 10 As you can tell DB is far from being a stranger to the stage and the versatile style that he offers as the front manguitar player for Zen Arcadia is such a re-freshing relief and proof that rock is still alive

Nolan Erck guitar player and vocals for Zen Arcadia also has a very impressive background Aside from a vast background in various bands Nolan also helped to promote bands from all over the globe through his work for the music label Riffage known for the re-lease of the Tattoo the Earth Compilation that fea-tured Slayer Slipknot and many more Nolan also worked on live-streaming concerts at the Great Ameri-can Music Hall in San Francisco Ca When he is not rocking out with Zen his solo act and recordingproducing studio Volume 11 keep him busy Right now Nolan is working on a reviewpodcast site that will feature all kinds of music related content exclu-sive acoustic performances from bands and other mu-sic media endeavors

Seth Duffey Zenrsquos bassist and a very unique individu-

al is a very humble person He will tell you that he doesnrsquot have a very exciting past but I would have to beg the differ Before Seth met his other ZA band ma-tes he played in several other bands and as life emerged to the forefront that all temporarily ended He would go years without playing until Seth met Nolan and Dennis Everything pretty much clicked at that moment and he joined the band It seems that music runs through the veins of his family His broth-er Brendan Duffey is a music producer in Brazil and helped produce Earthquakes

Aside from slapping the bass with Zen Arcadia Seth also has another talent affiliated with music He builds his own effects pedals Awesome I know So the next time you see him performing and you begin to wonder how he just made his bass sound all badasslike look down by his feet This mad scientist of music has the answer

Christian Wise the drummer for Zen Arcadia has years of musical talents of his own ranging from the professional music industry to the local music commu-nity He was a contracted drummer for Disney for 7 years in which his work included playing and record-ing with pop artists Samantha Mumba Mandy Moore Jars Of Clay and LL Cool J After working with Disney Christian went on to work as a session player for William Katt You might remember Mr Katt as the actor from the 80rsquos tv show The Greatest American Hero who also happens to be an accomplished musician Two years before the fateful joining of Zen Arcadia Christian played in rock bands Paradoxx Running On Empty as well as a brief stint with the country band Whiskey Dawn

It was a pleasure discovering all of the history behind the guys of Zen Check out Zen Arcadiarsquos new album Earthquakes and get to know the highly skilled profes-sionals performing brand new original music right in your own backyard

-


I wanted to share this cool guitar story with some of my friends A story about the true power of music

Being a musician in a band and writing songs is very difficult sometimes but also very rewarding too You may get the chance to maybe touch people you dont know or may never meet in this world

Sometime In the spring of 1994 my band Puddle Of Mudd was on the verge of success We were getting massive airplay on 989 The Rock in Kansas City with a catchy simple song I wrote You Dont Know from our first CD Stuck it was probably the first time any us had recorded in a real studio

We were all kinds of in shock in that it took off the way it did Major Labels were checking us out and all that cool stuff We had only been a band for under a year and We were just kids with big dreams back then

With a strong local following Puddle of Mudd was playing good gigs and making some pretty decent money so one day making the rounds to some of the music stores in town Sean Sammon and I went into Big Dudes Music off Broadway in KC to get some strings or something The Ernie Ball Music Man Eddie Van Halen guitar had just came out a year before and pretty much anything Eddie put his stamp on was going to be the real deal

Big Dudes Music had just got a used 1993 red flame top in that very day I had to see what kinda fire she had so I plugged her into a Marshall (or was it a Pea-vey) and let it rip That guitar blew my young mind I had to have it

This EVH guitar was 800 bucks so the band (but mostly Sean cuz he heard the magic) decided to buy my bright red Les Paul studio lite (1Come Clean

By Jimmy Allen

Jimmy Allen is an original member of the band Puddle of Mudd and an award winning songwriter for ldquoBlurryrdquo ldquoDrift and Dierdquo and ldquoShe Hates Merdquo off the lsquoCome Cleanlsquo album which was responsible for breaking Puddle of Mudd into the mainstream music scene

Jimmy has formed Against All Will a hard rock band that is ldquoboast ripe with radio-friendly rock songs replete with fat hooks huge choruses and melodies that linger long after the music has stoppedrdquo

Go to Jimmy Allenrsquos Facebook Page facebookcomagainstallwilljimmy for more info


guitar) for Wes so and I could get the EVH and shred some face I was connected to that guitar it was a part of my soul It took over the 1 position from my cheap white Charvel Toast That I used on the Stuck CD I played that EVH guitar at every POM show from then on I wrote some cool Puddle songs with that guitar Hit songs like She Hates Me and even the chord changes and chorus u take it all away part to Blurry plus many other POM songs

A piece of old wood with strings on it Helped me achieve my childhood dreams and changed my life

The guitar that helped spawn songs that have sold over six million records

I FCKING SOLD IT

Leaving POM was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my life I loved all the guys in the band like family but we were once a band of brothers reduced to a ship of fools Stupid band fighting and no magic rec-ord deal ever surfaced then like it did later on in 1999 I was so broke and depressed with no band The only thing I had of real value was my EVH guitar so I sold it and paid my crappy apt rent for two months WTF I should of just became homeless I felt sick with regret for many weeks after selling that red guitar it felt like I sold a part of my soul Maybe I did

So just a few weeks ago after working on some of Against All Will songs in my studio I could not sleep at all At 3AM in the morning I grab my laptop and I decided to do what every guitar player Likes to do from time to time NoNot porn or stalking ex girl-friends on Facebook Its scouting ebay for cheap gear Out of the blue in some other mystic realm I typed in EVH to just see what those guitars are worth now I was stunned outta my mind when I happened to see the face of my old friend in the red wood grains I broke out some old POM live band pics and went over each wood marking like the guy from CSI It sure looked like a positive match

Right away I emailed the seller asking if theres a paint chipped here and there He said yeah How did you know that Because it use to be mine I didnt tell him the story or he wouldve jacked the price up on me so I bought it without blinking My old red EVH guitar was back I even kissed it

It felt the same it looked the same just like it did when I sold it in 1998 Its smell reminded me of my misguided youth I plugged it in and I was transported back in time It was amazing to finally hold her once again

Red arrived back in my hands on November 26th I felt the pure magic of this guitars power I couldnt

believe it when I got online and saw whos Birthday it was that very day it showed up Eddie Van Halens Maybe it was a sign from the rock gods

Stay true to yourself Never give up and always fol-low your dreams

turned-

I wait for the writer to come

Always eternal and fleeting

Bound by the writers unwritten law

A drug of rapturous needing

Is it cut or pure

Put it in me and make me dance

How can this curse turn cure

When it turns away the only chance

of the loveliest low mellow hue

Concubine dreamer story weaver

The story is lost in you

I wait for the writer to come undone

Always bold and uncertain

Showing off is so incredibly dumb

When you live behind a curtain

They said bring me your outcasts

Your lost in the woods

So wander those places and turn up the mud

Replace broken things

with soon to be broken things too

Self taught non learner blind eye turner

The story is lost on you

M Montez-

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Who is Hellen Back

For starters Hellen Back is my nom de plume While I may not have actually been to Hell (or back for that matter) I have had some pretty var-ied life experiences that I can draw on to when faced with new difficult or uncomfortable situa-tions I am a natural introvert Hellen is my extro-verted in-your-face alter-ego that voices the thoughts and comments that decorum will not al-low me to say I have worked as a paralegal in family law for over 13 years Every time I think I have seen or heard it all something new turns up The STORIES I could tell (but cannot due to con-fidentiality) are unbelievable Weird gross sad outrageous deplorable nasty heart-wrenching and just plain wrong stuff goes on every single day in this town and a small slice of it lands on my desk Divorce custody conflict ndash it makes peoplersquos common sense evaporate They operate out of guilt fear anger hopelessness My job is to help these broken folks to the finish line ndashwhatever that may be I am the defiantly proud owner of four marriages (thatrsquos 28 in dog marriag-es) High school sweethearts meet infidelity meth and meddling parents in a small town Check Mixed-race marriage in same small conservative (okay redneck) town co-mingled with alcoholism and domestic violence Check Stable loveless marriage that lasted longer than it should have Check Rollercoaster of happiness and hardship with the one human being on the planet whose star out of countless billions of others shone the brightest just for you Check I have been home-less With an infant I have had most of my large family shun me over marriage number two I have been jobless and car-less knowing only a single soul in a new city I have counted my rent out in pennies I have had post-partum depression so severe the choices and decisions

I made during that time nearly ended a relation-ship I am the black sheep I am a realist I am a mother to three children and two step-children but I refuse to be labeled ldquoMomrdquo I am older than I look but feel like I have lived several other peo-plersquos lifetimes I have vices I am not perfect how-ever much I want to be Poverty Rape Eating disorders Mental illness Blended families Toxic friends Cutting Dysfunc-tional families Abortion Religion Substance abuse Anxiety Addiction Ask me about any of these issues and I will tell you what I think what I know what I have lived and what I have learned Contact me confidentially

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TCNM OUT OF BOUNDS

I am a writer and an artist Things explode out of me in waves at times and sometimes they keep me awake at night I like stories ambiguous stories

with no heroes no villains and no endings I like broken bits of life lingering around waiting to be dissected and reconnected and some things just effect me in an extreme way Sometimes the effect feels like a overwhelming surge of pictures and things and people and places and pain and love and that human connection we all look for When the pressure cooker of magic finally spreads itself outward and into the world like heavenrsquos gates letting the light out to fill the dark placeshellip I canrsquot shut up about it I want to scream about it from every corner of the world I want to pick it apart and bury myself in it This is exactly what Mourning Mountains feels like

Mourning Mountains label themselves as Rock n Roll but my oh my that is not enough of an explanation for the how exquisite their landscape is Below the surface of that innocent little ploy of ldquoRock n Rollrdquo is a treacherous razor sharp beast spewing out mind altering venom Just this past summer Mourning Mountains performed at Old Ironsides and the audience was not ready for what they were about to experience

The group quietly walked onto the stage as the audience ho-hummed in small clusters People who came to have a drink and enjoy the company of their friends were chatting and buzzing around the bar They were mostly ignoring those final moments between set up and go time

VocalistGuitaris James Reedy took in a deep breath at the microphone Most of the crowd had their backs turned away busy with their friends Thatrsquos what the opener often deals with For one tiny sliver of a second I swear you could feel a vacuum open up and suck the air out of the room with that inhale No one else noticed the change in atmosphere

James held that breath in for a second and let out the

loudest guttering monster fire vortex making half screaming half crying half agony- opening lyric I have ever heard in my entire life also unaccompanied by music The first song was ldquoTrust Merdquo His stage presence cannot be explained with mortal words

The audience immediately stopped whatever they were doing Conversations hung in mid sentence and everyone collectively turned toward the stage as if mind controlled to do so It was surreal They were actually slack jawed and wide eyed What they were experiencing was that split second of the brain telling the body ldquoThis is not normal bewarerdquo

Mourning Mountains had control of the entire room with a song that begged you to ldquotrust merdquo Opening with that song was genius

After ldquoTrust Merdquo the band went quiet again They let that heaviness hang around just long enough for it to feel a bit uncomfortable and no one uttered a word James Reedy scanned the room one second ticked by then two The band began to play again but without a build up just a frenzy of sound as they grinded their hearts out in tight unison The crowd remained quiet and the band played for a shell shocked crowd

They put everything into the second song as if it were the last The second song got everyone warmed up and acclimated to Mourning Mountains very unique style They were still stunned but more in awe than fear and by the end the crowd threw up a loud wall of cheers because they knew they had just witnessed something really good

The whole experience and performance was incredible

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-M Montez

S o I got to go out to a Music Festival

recentlyhellip Yay Happy happy Joy joy

I have to say that I absolutely had a great

time However what I found more than anything else

was a little bit more about myself I realized I was

thinking too much and listening a whole lot less This

is not my typical behavior I had various thoughts and

feelings running around Of course the majority of

those thoughts running around up in the attic-space of

my brain were those of the happiest Irsquove had in long

awhile So donrsquot even try understanding it Irsquom not

complaining here I had a blast at this Festival

Needless to say this left me with more than the nor-

mally confused state than Irsquom used to And as far as

deciding which Metal-Note to pull here Letrsquos just say

I was caught several times by my whole family while

franticly shuffling through obscure piles of loose pa-

per and 12-torn notebooks to the usual files folders

and boxes All of this in the hopes of finding the

ldquoperfect-noterdquo (UGH - I felt like a tone-chasing guitar

player on a 3-day bender)

On to my point Please Read this One Word for Me

FANS

Musicians What is your definition of FANS

My Definition

A FEELING that is eager and intense with a strong

SENSE of peace and BELONGING as you become

PART OF a CAMARADERIE that is accomplished by

BEING AROUND OTHERS WHO ARE ldquoJUST LIKE

MErdquo Fans are people who are just as fully inspired by

the intense feeling of great energy created by a deep

appreciation of the importance of music

Dave Mustaine has said it all along When announc-

ing his band mates he never announces himself or

says his actual name What he does say is key

So what does he say to his audience

ldquoAnd Me Well you know mehellip cause Irsquom just

like yourdquo

He knows who really matters Itrsquos the fans It always

has been and itrsquos always going to be the fans

THE SECRETS TO YOUR SUCCESS

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DEC 6TH

MARK YOUR

CALENDARS

TCN Magazine started out as a crazy spark of inspiration That spark soon grew into an undying flame stoked by the

talented community of local musicians in Sacramento who want nothing more than to share their passion for music

with you We wanted to give them an outlet to share what they work so hard to create in a legitimate and professional

way but we wanted to go beyond sharing flyers and events We wanted to get deep down in the trenches and find

out what motivates all of the amazing creativity pumping into this city We wanted to bring musicians closer together

so that they could network with each other and we also wanted to add our own creative juices to the mix because

Creativity is like a virus if you share it it spreads and it grows That is the power of music and why it is so important

to us

We knew the adventure we were about to embark upon was a rocky path full of bumps and turns but we decided the

possible pitfalls were worth it Our local music community was worth the time and efforts it took to see this crazy

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their art and help those ambassadors of music carry their own undying flames onto the stage so that they could go on

to ignite sparks in others as they did in us

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into Threat Con Nation Magazine Sacramentos Local Music Review Through trial and error and perseverance

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overwhelming support from the very people that inspired us

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stock the shelves until we receive the funds to do so

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100tell the wolves

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1 walking tall

2 tesla

3 todd morgan and

the emblems

4 zeroclient

5 daly redline

6 frank hannon

7 restrayned

8 arden park

roots

9 some fear none

100tell the wolves

ROCK ALT

1 MICHAEL TIFFANY

2 paul rocker

3 FATE UNDER FIRE

4 once an empire

5 brian lee bender

6 color the sound

7 riotmaker

8 sages

9 march into paris

100pilgrim

1 in the silence

2 plague widow

3 kill the

precedent

4 boyce

5 I wish we

were robots

6 axiom

7 slaves of

manhattan

8 fallrise

9 jack ketch

100motorize

1 SWIM

2 get shot

3 twitch angry

4 mdso

5 yankeee brutal

6 dead weight

7 the pikeys

8 rebel radio

9 boats

100gerard

fragamino

METAL PUNK








-Stefan Adcock





















-









By Jimmy Allen








I FCKING SOLD IT








turned-





Is it cut or pure


















M Montez-

Featured Poetry



Restrayned

RockHard Rock




Madison Ave

Rock



Wrings

Alternative




CASH CARTELL







Who is Hellen Back




Ask Hellen Back




TCNM OUT OF BOUNDS















-M Montez























FANS


My Definition













like yourdquo






80

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1 walking tall

2 tesla

3 todd morgan and

the emblems

4 zeroclient

5 daly redline

6 frank hannon

7 restrayned

8 arden park

roots

9 some fear none

100tell the wolves

ROCK ALT

1 MICHAEL TIFFANY

2 paul rocker

3 FATE UNDER FIRE

4 once an empire

5 brian lee bender

6 color the sound

7 riotmaker

8 sages

9 march into paris

100pilgrim

1 in the silence

2 plague widow

3 kill the

precedent

4 boyce

5 I wish we

were robots

6 axiom

7 slaves of

manhattan

8 fallrise

9 jack ketch

100motorize

1 SWIM

2 get shot

3 twitch angry

4 mdso

5 yankeee brutal

6 dead weight

7 the pikeys

8 rebel radio

9 boats

100gerard

fragamino

METAL PUNK








-Stefan Adcock





















-









By Jimmy Allen








I FCKING SOLD IT








turned-





Is it cut or pure


















M Montez-

Featured Poetry



Restrayned

RockHard Rock




Madison Ave

Rock



Wrings

Alternative




CASH CARTELL







Who is Hellen Back




Ask Hellen Back




TCNM OUT OF BOUNDS















-M Montez























FANS


My Definition













like yourdquo






80

SAT

DEC 6TH

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CALENDARS








to us














































-









By Jimmy Allen








I FCKING SOLD IT








turned-





Is it cut or pure


















M Montez-

Featured Poetry



Restrayned

RockHard Rock




Madison Ave

Rock



Wrings

Alternative




CASH CARTELL







Who is Hellen Back




Ask Hellen Back




TCNM OUT OF BOUNDS















-M Montez























FANS


My Definition













like yourdquo






80

SAT

DEC 6TH

MARK YOUR

CALENDARS








to us


































By Jimmy Allen








I FCKING SOLD IT








turned-





Is it cut or pure


















M Montez-

Featured Poetry



Restrayned

RockHard Rock




Madison Ave

Rock



Wrings

Alternative




CASH CARTELL







Who is Hellen Back




Ask Hellen Back




TCNM OUT OF BOUNDS















-M Montez























FANS


My Definition













like yourdquo






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I FCKING SOLD IT








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M Montez-

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Restrayned

RockHard Rock




Madison Ave

Rock



Wrings

Alternative




CASH CARTELL







Who is Hellen Back




Ask Hellen Back




TCNM OUT OF BOUNDS















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My Definition













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Restrayned

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My Definition













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