Ray Iommi
Parents: I was being raised by wolves, when I was rescued by a Portuguese family that settled in Belmont Ca, they taught me how to live and love, and walk upright...I'd probably be dead or in prison if not for them.
Musical Influences: UFO, AC/DC, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Van Halen, METALLICA...when I was about 16 I went to my cousins house and was flipping through her albums when I came across Black Sabbath Paranoid...I played it...I was never the same.
Musical beginnings: I started playing drums at a friends house every day, when I asked my parents for a drum set they said HELL NO...then they brought home a couple of acoustic guitars...guess they figured guitar was nice and quiet...now I have a 300 watt rig with four 4x12 cabinets...f*** quiet...I wanna rock.
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Favorite Interests / pastime: Music has always been a big part of my life, Riding my bike through the hills and then stopping for lunch in Santa Cruz, spending time with my friends and their kids, sleeping...taking a snooze and waking to find Spongebob on...nice, Movies...really into Asian horror films and the old exploitation films lately...hollywood has run out of ideas...except for Grindhouse, 300 and Sin City.
Favorite foods: Anything with bacon...bacon rocks...the only thing better than bacon is...bacon swimming in maple syrup.
Favorite TV shows: Friends reruns, Spongebob, Jimmy Neutron, Ultimate Fighter, Yes Dear, King Of Queens, That 4x4 show on Spike TV with that cute blonde chick that can weld...SHE'S SO HOT...actually she's kind of average but the fact that she can weld makes her SO HOT.
Would love to jam with: Ozzy, Michael Schenker, Zakk Wylde, Frank Marino and Steve Vai
Ambitions: Just have fun..spend as much time as I can with my friends and their kids, and my family...I ain't gettin any younger and nobody gets outta this alive.
Nickname: Rasputin
First show: Kiss and Cheap Trick at the Cow Palace "77"
Turn-ons: In your face guitar playing, girls playing the guitar...the world needs more female musicians, Goth chicks "Suicide Girls Rule".
Turnoffs: Drama...f***in get over it already.
In my next life I would like to be: Better than I am now.
Favorite quote: “A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.” Knights of Pythagoras