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Angus Barrs

Okay, I left Chamberlain and decided to be a smartass by taking my GED the same year the Florida Legislature decided to be a smartass and move the age for the GED to 18. Dammit. A month after I left it was announced that my PSAT had qualified me as a National Honor Merit Semi-Finalist. Double dammit! So I went to USF as non degree seeking, made some bad relationship choices and smoked wayyyy too much pot. Got my band itch back shortly after getting a copy of Metallica's Master of Puppets, and joined a band. Former bandmates are at www.ravidrums.com and www.darrellroberts.com That band blew up and imploded. This would prove to be a consistent pattern, based on the well established principle that band people are total fuckheads, myself included. Anyways, I got mad and went to LA, Hollyweird in particular. Smoked wayy to much of some much better pot. Went to the Bass Institute of Technology and learned from some of the greatest players on the planet that I can't play Jazz. Dammit! Well, not that I really like jazz so much. Anyways, did the 1 year program there and came home. Ooops, know the old saying "You can never go home?" Dammit. Spent a few years working with my Mom when she opened a law office, sad as that sounds, because she couldn't find office help who was worth a crap, but at the same time I did get valuable training iin the paralegal field. I also learned that Family Law is pretty much the worst place to be in law. If you want to see people at their absolute worst every single day, that is the place for you. Played in bands - singer was stolen by much bigger band, guitarist succumbed to a severe drug habit. I think I mentioned musicians are fuckheads. After that, I hooked up with an awesome musician named Wes Dearth who goes by the name John Wesley because he got tired of people mis-spelling it as "Wes Death" on the marquee. He needed a bassist for an upcoming 14 country european tour, so I joined up. Rehearsed, got a passport, got set to go December 12 - November 23rd the promoter and main backer had his wife get killed in car accident. Tour cancelled. Not that my sadness at the tour cancelling was even near that poor fellow losing his wife - you can't even be mad at anyone. It was all bad. DAMMIT! Left Family Law to go work as the Keyboard and Software guy at Thoroughbred music in Sarasota because I am apprently one of the very few people on the planet who reads a manual. Joined a band called Slap Of Reality. They were signed to Skene Records, had just recorded an album of awesome melodic punk in a style that would now be called "Emo" except that the singer didn't suck. Went to NYC to showcase to try to get a decent distribution deal. On a phone call to the Skene! label office in Minnesota, suddenly found their phone was shut off and they had gone out of business. DAMMIT! Get back in van, drive back to Florida. Band moved back to NY to go live with the old bassist at his invitation. There's that fuckhead problem again. So, I was at work in Thoroughbred, met Rand, a guitarist from the death-metal band called Atheist, makers of high-speed brutal chaotic mayhem. We started playing together based upon mutual recognition of competence and more than slight insanity. We met a band that had lost their bass and guitar (Trust me, this was a good thing...) and we joined up as "Trip2go". Sorta the name they had. Anyways, after a year of hard work and writing and playing out a few times, Rand decided everything we had ever written sucked and we had to start over again....Bye Rand! Got a new guitarist, and continued on. Put out a CD and played until the guitarist got sick of bands in general and me in particular, and quit. Got another guitarist, my co-worker and friend from Thoroughbred, Steve Rosser. During this time, I left Thoroughbred, and over the course of that year moved on until I had a job working for General Motors (via subcontract, kieeping all the benefits and goodies out of reach..dammit!) where I moved from customer service to handling BBB claims until I became the lead arbitration specialist for the western region of the US. I argue with people about cars a lot. Teleconferencing for arbitrations, reviewing repair orders and determining whether a given case needs to go to hearing or settle. Anyways, I also met a wonderful woman named Tara Romano who was cute, vivacious and who had recently moved from a terrible place called Colorado to Florida. I married her before she sobered up (Ha ha!) and we now live in Valrico where she is finishing her Theater degree at USF and I am pursuing a paralegal cerification through HCC in order to find some line of legal work that doesn't involve so much damned fighting all the time. I play with the band a lot, we play all over the place in Florida and have a new CD out. Record companies express "interest" now and then, but no checks are written yet. I often say that if my music stuff would go worse, I could quit in good concience, but it wont. If it would get better, i could quit my day job, but that hasn't happened yet, either. Dammit! Tara and I live here and want to move more towards Orlando so she can pursue her interests in film. We have 2 cats. I guess that's about it for now. UPDATE 9/06: Tara graduated 8/05. I got promoted to Paralegal for GM handling lemon Law/Breach of Warranty claims for early resolution 9/05. Tampa GM site closed. Dammit! Wait, they opened a NEW GM site in Austin, TX, where I accepted a position and now work as of 5/06. Bought a house with my wife in Elgin (just outside Austin), play in a band called the Evildoers, and now we have 3 cats. I can also be found yelling about random things and uploading porn to www.myspace.com/angusbarrs

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