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| NAME: Benjamin Bartley OCCUPATION: Monical's Pizza Guy BIRTHDATE: August 22, 1987 BIRTHPLACE: Peoria, IL BAND POSITION: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar INFLUENCES: METALLICA!!! Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Incubus, Sublime, Breaking Benjamin, Collective Soul HOBBIES: Snowboarding, Paranormal Investigation, FPS games, Nintendo Wii, Drawing and Photoshopping NICKNAMES: Cap'n Crunch, EL CAPITAN! |
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| Well, it all started when Ben was just a wee little lad, about 10 or 11 years old. He was at his aunt's house hanging out with his cousin Erica who, at that time, was a huge KISS fan. They were in her room listening to a Metallica CD--The Black Album. "Enter Sandman" was the song playing at the time. Ben fell in love with that song the first time he heard it so Erica let him borrow the CD (he has yet to return it), and he listened to it all the time. Since that day, | ||||||||||||||||
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| he has become a die hard Metallica fan. As a kid, Ben had also wanted to play drums, but he only got as far as air drumming, mostly to Metallica songs--no surprise! At age 13, Ben was watching Metallica's Behind the Music on VH1 when he fell in love with James Hetfield, the rhythm guitarist for Metallica. In the middle of the TV show, he ran out of his room and told his mom that he wanted to play guitar. His older brother, Kris, tried to play guitar when he was younger, but it didn't work out very well, so Ben picked up his old guitar and plucked around on it for awhile. After a couple days of self teaching, a local neighbor showed him tablature. Although Ben didn't know how to read it at first, he locked himself in his room until he figured it out. He picked up on it very quickly, and soon after, he taught himself every single Metallica song. When he ran out of Metallica songs, he started to teach himself other songs of any musical genre. Around the age of 15, after searching for band mates for a few years, he found his neighbor, Jon Cowell. He had heard from friends that Jon could play guitar exceptionally well. One day, Ben saw him on the street and asked him if he could hear Jon play. Ben was very impressed with Jon, as were the Cowell's with Ben's playing. After this, Ben was invited to a practice with Jon and ex-drummer Taylor Moss. They jammed around for about a year, and then Taylor moved so Ben and Jon had to find a new drummer. They auditioned a few people and got ahold of Chris Broshears. They played a few shows as a three piece band. Then after going through a few bass guitarists, Rich Goossen took the position. These four are the 2MASS Denial of today. | ||||||||||||||||
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