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Hailing from the SF Bay Area, Tad has been patiently waiting for his home state to finally fall into the Pacific Ocean. To pass the time (and to maintain some sense of sanity) Tad has been playing, writing, and recording music since the tender age of 6.
Coming from a musical home life, Tad’s first gig was playing drums and singing alto in his dad’s band at age 11. Tad’s cousin played guitar with him in that band and thought him his first 4 chords.
Both, father and cousin still play in bands to this day. And Tad is still waiting for California to fall into the ocean.
“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
— Chuck Palahniuk