 When I first put in the music, I was about 10 years old and my mom took me to see Green Day and that night, my mom, that's it. I want to play guitar, that's what I want to do and I think I started lessons probably the next day. And it was at a local music studio I did lessons and then to School of Rock where I met the girls and Delskin was born. I joined choir in about sixth grade and got really into singing and that's kind of where my passion for singing and performing came from. And then I got into musical theater and I played Ariel in The Little Mermaid and that's where I realized I wanted to be on the stage for the rest of my life. If I wasn't a musician I would like to think I'd be doing some sort of live sound or studio sound work. I always wanted to go to school for sound engineering. And then when the band started traveling that was pushed back a bit but I would like to think I'd be in some sort of sound engineering field. I think that'd be as close as I could get to I guess as involved in music as I could get if I wasn't playing it. Blackstar is the first amps I've ever used and I don't really want to ever try anything else. As soon as I started using Blackstars when I got into Delskin and stuff I definitely decided that that's what I would stick with kind of forever. Because not only is it super reliable it's super easy for me to get my sound. Using the HD Stage 100 Mark II with the 2x12 cabs. Referring to the power that Blackstar brings. I mean you know we're running around the stage standing you know in front of them. You can feel these cabs rumbling behind you so that's pretty cool to know that you know whatever's going on in the monitors and the PA in front of you you've got these beasts behind us. Two big pieces of advice are practice and confidence. If you get up on stage and you're really shy it's very obvious to everybody. You have to work on your confidence and that also means that you have to practice a lot so that you can be confident about what you're playing and what you're doing what you're singing you know. Follow nobody but learn from everybody. You know make your own way but absorb as much as you can from the people around you. There's no need to copy anybody else but learn as much as you can from as many people as you can. Blackstar has been so reliable on the road. It's you know the sturdy sound we need night after night and it provides the power and the oomph behind our sound that we want. So Blackstar has definitely been an awesome fit for our sound as a band.