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Brian Phraner

"At the age of 18, I bought a Hagstrom electric bass and started teaching myself to play it. I did this by learning all the bass parts in my Yes album collection. It was difficult for the first 3 months with no amplifier, but I found I could press the head of my bass against the wall of my mother's apartment and get a pretty good tone. It quickly became apparent that playing and writing music was to be my destiny and that I'd better buy an amp quick. I began writing music as soon as I started playing it, so I taught myself to play other instruments that I could write with such as the acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, drums and singing. In college I played bass in the Skagit Valley Jazz Ensemble with a couple of members of my first original progrock band called Medusa." Brian is currently Manager of Museum Technology at EMP/SFM, where he gets to write music for the exhibitions. He encourages you to visit his MySpace webpage.