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Jerry Elliott:Born and raised in Florence Co.Played sports throughout highschool including:wrestling,track,baseball and football.He was good at everything,wrestling and track were his best.He was introduced to the basics of guitar when he was young.Some of the family used to sit around with different instruments and jam.He learned alot more chords on his own and began writeing songs.Once he learned more he taught some of his friends the basics and began jamming with them.In the mid-80's he started a band by the name of Sticker.The band members were:Jerry Elliott,Deb Elliott(keyboard/backup vocals)zags(drums) and bodene(bass).Zags and bodene started from scratch,but they managed to fit in pretty good.They played a good amount of shows and recorded some.The band grew apart when bodene got whipped and zags started huffing paint :).Jerry auditioned more players but no one had the passion and original ideas he had,they all wanted to play cover tunes,which is fine but he wanted more.So he went and bought a 4 track recorder,some other studio equipment and started recording his songs himself.He won awards for song writeing,got put in the paper and had some great catchy songs under his belt.Some musicians in town did not like what he said in the paper about the town doing the same old thing musically,but he dident care because it was true.Eventually he grew away from music and focused on other areas of his life.....until two of his sons got old enough to play.Clint jumped on the bass and eugene got on the drums and they started making music like only family can with their connection.Jerry never really got credit for his song writeing ability from people around him,i guess kinda like everyone out there,you do something you love but everyone is just worried about themselves and never seem to find the time to commend someone for doing something with passion.Sometimes passionless people don't say much to help people with passion along the way.I would'ent be what i am musically without him,i give him all the credit in the world.Jerry to this day has song ideas flowing like the nile river.

Clint Elliott:Clint grew up in Pueblo Co.He and his two brothers(James and Eugene) grew up in innovative surroundings due to their parents Deb and Jerry.Clint picked up on pipes drawing ability and drew cars and comics.He started painting later and now creates some unique and great paintings.He also started skateboarding in highschool and played the violin.He got pretty good at both.Twords the end of school he started on the bass.He picked up on it fast and added an alternative/innovative sound to the band.He continues to paint/draw and plans on taking it to the next level soon.

Mean Eugene Elliott:Never one to "follow the trends and try to fit in" throughout his childhood and to this day.He had always wanted to play the drums for as far as he can remember but kinda got talked into playing the trumpet instead in the early days.He got good at the trumpet when he wanted to.He would go down to pipes studio and mess around when he could and found an interest in recording at an early age.He finally got a chance to play the drums when his cousin left a junk set at their house for a while.Already knowing basic beats from playing on desks or wherever,he began to play harder beats all the time and picked up on it.Pipes seen the interest in eugenes drumming and thats when clint got involved and they all started jamming.Eugene brings the heavy edge to the sound.They started playing in pipes garage and made some noise in the area.Eugene then took the studio from the basement(which was no longer being used)and set it up in the garage.He started putting basic songs down playing everything himself and learning to mix.He basically is the tech/engineer in the band and did the producing/ mixing on the recordings.There is more to some people than meets the eye.Eugenes not one of them.