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Brad Parent
United States, Georgia, Ashburn
Brad Parent
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Brad Parent

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About Brad Parent

I was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and spent my early childhood in New Orleans, moving to Mississippi and then to the Houston, Texas area by the time i started 6th grade. I started playing cornet in the school band at that time and shortly afterwards got a guitar and some guitar lessons to get me started. In 8th grade I switched from cornet to French horn in the school band. Growing up in the '70's, I became interested and was influenced by the music of Pink Floyd, Boston, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Peter Frampton, Kansas, Heart, and many other classic rock artists of the time. There was also no avoiding being influenced by a great deal of funk, soul, and disco that was playing on the top 40 stations of the time.

As I was about to start high school, my stepfather took a job with a deepwater drilling company, and I found myself suddenly moving to Cairo, Egypt, where I attended high school for three years. With no tv or radio to distract me, I threw myself into practicing guitar, trying less to copy than to learn to improvise and create new music. With only a couple of lessons a year to guide me, I nevertheless learned enough to play guitar in the school jazz-rock ensemble. I continued to play french horn in the band as well and took some piano lessons, which provided me with a basic background in music theory. In 1980 I was awarded the school's highest award for achievement in music for my numerous performances and involvement. On holidays my family would travel to Paris, Greece, Rhodes, and all over Egypt, so I got a great firsthand introduction to all kinds of ancient and modern art and culture. During my time in Egypt I also got to see The Grateful Dead's performance at the Giza Pyramids, and observed more than a few magnificent desert sunrises from the tops of some of those pyramids as well.

I spent my senior year of high school in Singapore, and continued to travel and absorb other cultures. Got to go to Thailand, Nepal, and Bali that year, all of which left indelible impressions on me. Upon graduation in 1981, I returned to the States to attend college at North Texas State University, majoring in Jazz Studies. The amount of talent there in Denton, Texas was incredible, and I was there exposed to a great deal more jazz and learned jazz theory. I played rhythm guitar in an eight-piece R&B band called Dr. Trash and the Funkmonsters, performing at parties and clubs in Denton and nearby Dallas.

I finished my music education at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Applied Music. I was married in 1987 and since I didn't really want to teach at the time, I went to work in the food service industry and moved to Houston, Texas, where I ended up in the car sales business and played in the Houston bands Mountain of Joy and S/he. I had begun recording at home on a Fostex four-track tape recorder in college, and some of the recordings here are from those early four-track recordings in Hammond and Houston.

Introduced to the computer early on, I started recording at home on the computer in 1998, and I continue to try to learn new ways of using the computer to help create music. At present all of my music is homemade on very inexpensive equipment using free software, and the challenge is to work with no budget and still make it sound decent. My tastes are very eclectic and the musical ideas I get coming to me seem to come out of nowhere, hence the title of my first published album, Songs From The Void. I presently work as a truck driver, and for a good six years I was traveling over the road and was rarely at home, so my second published work was called Postcards From The Promised Land, and a good deal of that was recorded in my truck at truck stops and rest areas throughout the Eastern United States. Right now I am still driving throughout the Eastern US, which leaves me little time for playing, but I enjoy spending my time at home with my beloved wife, Liz and our cherished cat, Possum, also known as Munchkinbutt.

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