INSTRUMENT: GUITAR AND PIANO USING A LES PAUL GUITAR AND A YAMAHA S90 ES PIANO. I LET MY YOUNGER BROTHER BORROW IT FROM TIME TO TIME.

WHY: I WOULD SAY MY EARLIEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES WERE MY PARENTS. MY MOM OFTEN PLAYED THE PIANO AND MY DAD WOULD PLAY GUITAR WHEN WE WOULD SING AS A FAMILY...PROBABLY WHY THE GUITAR AND PIANO ENDED UP BEING MY MAIN INSTRUMENTS. DAVE, ANDREW AND I ALL PLAYED MUSIC FOR OUR CHURCH GROUP AND DABBLED IN OTHER FORMS OF MUSIC AS A PART OF A FEW BANDS. OUR MOST NOTABLE EXPLORATIONS INCLUDED A LITTLE GARAGE BAND CALLED THE IRON DAISIES, A DINNER MUSIC GROUP CALLED THE WILSON 7 AND A POP/ROCK COVER BAND THAT NEVER TOOK ON A NAME. WE HAVE NO LOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR THE OTHER TWO NAMES. IN FACT, THE WILSON 7 HAD ONLY 6 MEMBERS AND NOBODY WAS NAMED WILSON. LATER, THE THREE OF US DECIDED TO START UP A CHRISTIAN ROCK BAND AND ADDED OUR MUSICAL SCHOLARSHIP-WINNING LITTLE BROTHER, DANIEL, TO LIGHT UP THE KEYBOARDS. AS IT TURNS OUT, HE COULD REALLY SING AND THUS THICKER THAN WATER WAS BORN.

FAVORITE SONG ON THE CD: I REALLY LIKE THE SONG FREE. IT WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL SONGS FOR THE CD. FOR ME, THE LYRICS ARE ABOUT AS HONEST AS THEY GET AND THE MESSAGE IS SIMPLE, BUT POWERFUL. WE HAVE ALWAYS REALLY LIKED THIS SONG AND DECIDED TO SWITCH UP ON THE INSTRUMENTS A LITTLE TO GIVE IT A DIFFERENT FEEL. I REALLY HAVE TO THANK OUR PRODUCER MARK. HE TOOK WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS A GOOD SONG AND MADE IT INCREDIBLE.