AaronJay

Valley Village, California

A kid of the 80's and 90's, Aaron was first inspired to play guitar at the age of 10, when he heard Eric Clapton's Unplugged version of "Layla". Using some money his grandmother had given him for his birthday, and a few dollars he had earned doing chores, he bought a small guitar. Shortly thereafter he was given a cassette tape of "Help!" by The Beatles, and it was to be the beginning of a lifelong love of rock and roll music. At 11 years old, he began taking some limited formal drumming lessons. From listening to his other grandmother's record collection, meanwhile, he developed a taste for Jazz, and his aunt contributed to his appreciation for live performance by taking him to some of his first concerts as a member of the audience. Throughout his teens he would develop as a composer, vocalist, and rhythm guitarist, as well as learning to play the bass, Keyboards, and B flat trumpet, and in his 20's he would take a crack at lead guitar; yet only now, has he decided to go all in.