TRISTO
"TREX"
BASS / VOCALS
TRISTO ALWAYS BRINGS A NEW ALTERNATIVE TO THE TABLE.
WITH A DYNAMIC APPROACH TO OLD SCHOOL STYLE OF PLAYING & BASS TONALITY, ALONG WITH BEING A TOTAL ROCK SOLID BASSIST.
ONCE YOU SPARK HIM, HE IS THE BURNING FIRE FOR THE BAND ITSELF. CONSTANT INSPIRATIONAL RIFFS AND IDEAS COME FROM TRISTO.
NOT TO MENTION HIS SMOOTH LISTENING VOCALS.
STARTING BASS BACK IN 2003.
TRISTO LEFT SCHOOL TO GO WORK FOR THE LOCAL (EVATT) BUTCHER SO THAT HE COULD FOLLOW HIS DREAMS OF BEING ANOTHER GENE SIMMONS OR JOHN EDWISTLE & OFCOURSE HIS TRUE HERO AND THE ONE REASON WHY HE CHOSE BASS GUITAR NICK OLIVERI (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE).
WORKING A JOB TO BUY HIS BASS WAS HIS ONLY GOAL AT THAT TIME. AS HE GOT THE MONEY FOR THE BASS GUITAR THAT HE YEARNED FOR AFTER HIMSELF AND DANNY SCOUTING OUT THE LOCAL CASH CONVERTERS IN BELCO. ONCE TRISTO SET HANDS ON THIS WASHBURN XB-100, HE IMEDITLY KNEW IT WAS HIS DESTINY TO BE THE BEST BASSIST HE COULD POSSIBLY BE. WORKING HARD CUTTING THE LOCALS PORK CHOPS AND EYE FILLETS, TRISTO AT ONE POINT GATHERED ENOUGH HARD EARNED COIN & THEN PICKED UP THE BASS HE SO MUCH DREAMT OF EVERYNIGHT HE THEN QUIT HIS JOB ( AFTER A WEEK OF WORKING ) AS ALL HE WANTED WAS TO PLAY THE BASS.
LEARNING THE SKILL SET ON BASS ISNT EASY.
TRISTO AQUIRED THE LIKE OF PLAYERS LIKE GENE SIMMONS (KISS) | JOHN EDWHISTLE (THE WHO) | NICK OLIVERI (QUEENS OF THE STONGE AGE). HIS FOUNDATIONS WERE SET, THESE STYLES MORPHED A REALLY ROCK SOLID YET TEHCNICAL SOUND FOR TRISTO.
JAMMING
AS TRISTO & DANNY JAMMED EARLY ON THEY DID COVERS OF AC/DC, PINK FLOYD, LED ZEPPELIN, GUNS N' ROSES & BLACK SABBATH. THIS WAS THE BIRTH OF WHAT WOULD BE HUSKY STRUTTERS GUITAR & BASS OUTFIT.
TRISTO BEING IN A FEW BANDS ALONGSIDE DANNY THOUGH THEIR ADOLECENE PERIOD INCLUDING RED BARON, THE STRIPS & HOWBOY CAT. THE INFLUENCES FOR TRISTO THEN LEAD TO MORE MODERN TAKES ON ROCK SUCH AS, ARCTIC MONKEYS, THE STROKES, THE BLACK KEYS,QUEESN OF THE STONE AGE & EARLY KINGS OF LEON.
THERE WAS PERIOD OF NO BAND TO BE IN FROM BOTH TRISTO & DANNY, WHCIHC LEAD TO THEM WRITTING A WHOLE LOT TOGETHER ACOUSTICLY AND THE BACK OFFSHOOT OF THE STRIPS CAME ALOT OF THE IDEAS FOR HUSKY STRUTTERS NOW ACTIVE SONGS.
JUST PRIOR TO THIS PERIOD AND INCLUDING THIS PERIOD THE INFLUENCES CHANGED ONCE AGAIN, TO BANDS SUCH AS , CAGE THE ELEPHANT, RAGE AGINST THE MACHINE, NIRVANA & LEFT LANE CRUIZERS.
FORMING HUSKY STRUTTERS
ONCE MEETING WITH ROBBO AND JAMING FOR THE FIRST TIME, THEDSE TWO JUGGERNAUGHTS OF PLAYERS ESTABLISHED A STRONG RYTHMIC BOND INSTANLY AND WERE BOTH VERY HAPPY COMPLEMENTING EACH OTHERS INSTRUMENTS AND THE STYLE WHICH THEY PLAYEED THEM. A COMMMON GROUND WAS MEET ON SOME INFLUENCES BEWTEEN TRISTO AND ROBBO INCLUDING: RAGE AGAINST THE MAHCINE, LED ZEPPELING & THE WHO.
THIS REALLY MADE THESE TWO MUICIANS COME TO LIFE INSTALY AND SET FIRE TO DANNY'S ELABORATE MUSICIAL IDEAS.
THE BAND WAS MADE!