DANNY BRINGS AN WICKED EDGE TO THE BANDS SOUND AND

  ATTITUDE. FRONT ON BURING VOCALS, ADDED WITH A TASTY SMORGASBORD OF GUITAR TONALITY AND TRICKY YET SIMPLE TECHNIQUE

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IN THE BEGINNING (2001)

DANNY HAD SOME TROUBLE WITH HIS EDUCATION, WELL MORE SO FELL TO INTREST OF ONLY MUSIC. ALONG WITH THE BUSSINES AND MARKETING SIDE OF THE WHOLE THING, HE WANTED TO BE IN A BAND ONE WAY OR ANOTHER! 

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INSPIRED

WITH PURSUING MUSIC HE WAS DRAW TOWARDS A CERTIAN MUSICIAN. ANGUS YOUNG (AC/DC) AS CLOSE RELATIONS WITH DANNY'S FATHER P.ELLIOTT, BEST FREIND PAUL "CUDDLES" McCULOCH AND EARLY AC/DC WITH ANGUS, BON AND MAL SUCH AS PAUL AND BON HAVING SOME DRINKS AT A FEW SHOWS & AC/DC PLAUING AT MR ELLIOTT'S FORMAL, DANNY COULD SEE SUCH CLOSE RELATIONS WITH ONE OF HIS FAVORTUE AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST KNOW BANDS IN THE WORLD TO DATE. SO THIS INSPIRED HIM GREATLY.

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DANNY WAS OBESSED!

HE BEAGIN RESAERCHING EVERY PART OF THIS BAND. HOW THEY ESTABLISHED, HOW THEY GOT KNOW, WHO WAS THE DRIVE BEING THE SONGS, EVERYTHING. SEEING THAT SUCH AN AWESOME THING CAME PRACTALLY OUT OF HIS OWN BACK YARD, THIS GAVE HIM HUGE DRIVE, THAT HE TOO COULD ONE DAY HAVE HIS NAME IN LIGHTS. THAT HE DIDNT NEED A HIGHER EDUCTATION TO MAKE IT IN LIFE. JUST RAW SKILL ON AN INSTRUMENT OR MICROPHONE AND KEEPING BUSSINESS SAVVY, ALONG WITH A SHIT LOAD OF DRIVE AND TRUE GRIT. 

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SO DANNY HAD SOME OF THOSE ATTIBUTES, ALTHOUGH HE STILL YET HAD ANY SKILL WITH INSTRUMETNS OR SINGING.

AFTER COMING BACK FROM A FAMILY VISIT IN MELBOURNE AND GAINING ALL THE KNOWLEGDE OF HIS UNCLES WHO WERE HUGE FANS OF AC/DC IN THE 1970'S AND LENDING THE COLLECTION OF CD FROM ALL HIS UNCLES, DANNY WOULD NOT STOP. ONLY AC/DC WITH SIDE SOMEDAYS OF DIRE STRAIGHTS OR LED ZEPPELIN.BUT 98% AC/DC EVERYDAY, ALL DAY.

 

HE WOULD GET IN TROUBLE AT SCHOOL FROM TAPPING TO SONGS IN CLASS (EVEN IF THERE WAS NO  MUSIC PLAYING OR HE HAD HIS WALKMAN OR MP3 PLAYER CONFISCATED BY THE TEACHER.) HE DIDNT CARE JSUT FOR THE SHEER DRIVE TO GET THERRE EVERY SECODN HAD TO BE LEARING ABOUT MUSIC!

 

WITH AC/DC BEING HIS MUSE. HE THEN WENT ON A FAMLIY HOLIDAY LATER THAT YEAR. THNEN RETURNED WITHA COPY OF AC/DC NO BULL. THAT WAS THE LAST FLINT TO SPARK THE FOREVER OBESSOION WITH GUITAR. AS DANNY WATCHED NO BULL SEEING ANGUS YOUNG RUN AROUND WITH SUCH A SMILE ON HIS FACE AND PLAYING THUNDERSTRUCK WITH ONE HAND AND THE OTHER HAND TO THE SKY, DANNY THOUGHT THATS IT! THAT'S ME,  AS A FULLY GROWN ADULT!

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THE GUITAR

HE THEN GOT OBSESSED WITH GUTIAR. HIS PARENTS SEEING HIS DRIVE AND FOCUS THEY THIOUGHT WHY NOT, SO HIS MUM K.ELLIOTT DECIEDD TO COURTOUSLY PURCHASE A START ACOUSTI GUITAR FROM PRO AUDIO IN CANBERRA. NO ONE HAD EVER ATTEMPTED MUSIC IN DANNY'S DIRECT FAMILY SO IT WAS A GAMBLE ALL ROUND. 

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FIRST 5 MONTHS OF PLAY WERE REDICULOUSLY HARD. HE EVENTUALLY GAVE UP BY THROWING THE GUITAR IN FRUSTRATION AT THE GROUND, SEPERATING THE NECK FROM THE BODDY SLIGHTLY.

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TRISTO WOULDNT LET THIS HAPPEN! AFTER THE INSPORATION DANNY HAD ENGULFED TRISTO WITH AND FOR TRISTO TO LEAVE SCHOOL FOR THIS DREAM AND WORK A JOB TO GET HIS BASS, TRISTO HAD AN IDEA. WITH THE SKILLS FROM HIS OLDER BROTHERS, TRIOSTAN HAD SOMEWHAT BASIC CARPENTERS SKILLS EARLY IN LIFE. SO HE SAID PLAINLY "I'LL FIX IT MAN, DON'T GIVE UP." TRISTO THEN TOOK THE GUITAR HOME AND GLUED AND CLAMPED THEN NECK BACK TO THE POSITION BEST HE COULD. 

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IT WAS FAR FROM PERFECT BUT DANNY COULD PLAY AGAIN.

IT ONLY TOOK ANOTHER MONTH AND THEN DANNY HAD MASTERED A FEW RIFFS AN LICKS HE WANTED TO BE ABLE TO BE SATISFIED INCLUDING : THUNDERSTRUCK (AC/DC) , SWEET CHILD O MINE (GUNS N' ROSES) ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT (THE KINKS) & COME AS YOU ARE (NIRVANA)

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THE VIPER

DANNY KEPT AT IT AFTER THAT AND EARNT HIMSELF RESPECT FROM HIS PARENTS WHO THEN COULD AFFORD TO BUY HIM HIS FIRST ELECTRIC GUTIAR (ESP LTD VIPER -50) AND AMP (ROLAND CUBE 15)  IN 2003 & THIS REALLY TOOK DANNY TO THE NEXT LEVEL. WITH THE HELP OF 6 MOTHS WORTH OF MUSIC LESSONS DANNY WAS OFF TO BECOMING THE DREAM HE SO VERY MUCHED ADMIRED OF MANY GUITARIST. 

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JAMMIN

ENTERING INTO THE FIRST JAMS WITH TRISTO, THESE TWO WHER DETERMINED TO BECOME ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK BANDS OF ALL TIME.

JAMMING IN DANNY'S PARENTS SHED FOR MANY YEARS WITH A FEW DIFFERNT DRUMMERS, INCLUDING A SESSION WITH ADAM HYDE (PEKING DUK) ON DRUMS WHICH WASNT PERSUED AFTER THAT ONE SESSION. 

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WRITTING ORGINALS FROM DAY ONE WITH ALOT OF COVERS ITS WAS IN THEIR SYTEM TO WRITE AND PLAY AS MUCH AS THEY COULD.

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THE JAG

LATER DOWN THE LINE INTO LATER TEENS AND ADOLENCECE BOTH DANNY & TRISTO KEPT A THE MUSIC AND WROTE AND PERFORMED COVERS & ORGINALS IN A FEW DIFFERNT BANDS.
DANNY WORKING HARD STAIGHT OUT OF SCHOOL GOT HIMSELF A JAPNESE FENDER JAGUAR (RARE AND FULL CUSTOMISED GUITAR NOW THAT HE STILL PLAYS)

THIS WAS BIG INSPIRATION FROM ONE OF HIS ALTIME FAVOURE GUTIARIST AND GUITAR SOUNDS KURT COBAIN (NIRVANA) CO-INSIDE WITH SEEING A FEW LIVE ACTS INCLUDING THE AUSSIE CHILDREN COLIDE, HE THEN KNEW HE WANTED EITHER A MUSTANG OR JAGAUAR.

 

THE DECICION WAS MADE WHEN HE SEEN THIS NEW SHORT RELEASE OF GUITARS AND PLAY SOME JAGUARS AT BETTER MUSIC. HE THEN LEARNED HE LOVED THAT SPACEY BRIDGE AND THE GRUNT & GRITTY YET STILL  A  INTERSETING TWANG WHICH WOULD BE PROVIED FROM NONE OTHER THAN A FENDER JAGUAR.

HE THEN AQUIRED A MASTERY BRIDGE, TO TAME SOME OF THE SPLASH SPACED EFFFECT & GIVE HIS SOUND A BIT MORE ATTACK & POWER TO HIS RIFFS.

ALONG SIDE WITH SOME ANTIQUITY PICKUPS WHICH JUST DEFINES SOME OF HUSKY STRUTTERS HEAVY SURFY STYLE RIFFS.

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FINDING THE DRUMMER

FINALY FINDING A DRUMMER THAT COULD PLAY OFF TRISTO & ALSO NOT WHACK OUT DANNYS UNOTHODOX STYLE OF RIFFS & CHORD PLAYING, ROBBO MADE NO EFFORT TO IMPRESS DANNY AS THE FIRST JAM WAS FIRE!

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MUSIC PRODUCTION 

AS THE GROUP MOVED ALONG INTO MORE PRODUCTION AND WRITTING DANNY AND ROBBOS BOUCNING IDEAS AND ROBBS MORE LEVEL GROUND APPROACH BROUGHT DANNY'S WILD IMAGINATION TO ACTUAL FRUISTION AS ROBBO COULD SEE THE REALISTIC PLAYABLITY YET DANNY FOUND IT HARD TO BRING EVERY IDEA TO LIFE ON HIS OWN.

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WITH THIS ALL COMBINED THE HUSKY STRUTTERS OPEN THE DOOR TO SO MANY GREAT SONGS IN THE NEAR FUTRE TO BE RELEASED.

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