Static Live Magazine December 2020
STATIC LIVE Magazine is Central Florida’s premier publication dedicated to celebrating music and culture. STATIC LIVE provides extensive, detailed community information from fashion to art, entertainment to events through noteworthy interviews, sensational photography and in-depth editorial coverage. STATIC LIVE is the only publication of its kind in Central Florida and reaches all target markets through wide distribution channels. Our staff includes highly accomplished contributors with award-winning backgrounds in music and entertainment; we know how much business is captured from the entertainment market. Our free full color publication can be found throughout Central Florida at key retailers, hotels and restaurants in high traffic areas. Our mission is to highlight the incredible talent, culture and lifestyle in Central Florida. With eye-opening profiles and coverage of the music and art community, STATIC LIVE readers will be positively influenced by our topical content and trending advertisers. STATIC LIVE Magazine is the most effective tool for branding connectivity with consumers in our area.
STATIC LIVE Magazine is Central Florida’s premier publication dedicated to celebrating music and culture. STATIC LIVE provides extensive, detailed community information from fashion to art, entertainment to events through noteworthy interviews, sensational photography and in-depth editorial coverage. STATIC LIVE is the only publication of its kind in Central Florida and reaches all target markets through wide distribution channels. Our staff includes highly accomplished contributors with award-winning backgrounds in music and entertainment; we know how much business is captured from the entertainment market. Our free full color publication can be found throughout Central Florida at key retailers, hotels and restaurants in high traffic areas. Our mission is to highlight the incredible talent, culture and lifestyle in Central Florida. With eye-opening profiles and coverage of the music and art community, STATIC LIVE readers will be positively influenced by our topical content and trending advertisers. STATIC LIVE Magazine is the most effective tool for branding connectivity with consumers in our area.
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Onward, Always!<br />
By Billy Dean<br />
As a toddler, my parents traded my<br />
baby crib to a family friend for a drum<br />
set. At five years old I could name<br />
all of the members of Poison, Motley<br />
Crue, and Guns n Roses. By seven I<br />
had an opinion about who was a better<br />
frontman—David Lee Roth or Sammy<br />
Hagar? By eight, I knew the reason<br />
why Led Zeppelin and Rush kicked so<br />
much ass (Saints Bonham and Peart ).<br />
By age 10 I was aiming for the speed<br />
of Basket Case. By 12 I was faking<br />
double bass drum like Niko McBain.<br />
By 13 I joined my first punk band and<br />
played a handful of shows. At 14<br />
I came in touch with Wynona’s Big<br />
Brown Beaver, The Descendents, and<br />
Suicide Machines. Age 15 brought another<br />
hardcore band. 16 was my first<br />
drum and bugle corps tour—3 months<br />
on gym floors.<br />
17 brought Carter Beaufort<br />
and another drum and<br />
bugle corps tour. With 18 came<br />
Tool and Music School. 19 years<br />
old playing across Central Florida<br />
with fledgling bands. 20 brought Billy<br />
Cobham, Mahavishnu Orchestra,<br />
and a disastrous cover band gig that<br />
almost derailed me. 21, dropout of<br />
music school to focus on making a<br />
living playing music. 25 I completed<br />
my first regional tour with an indie<br />
rock trio across the southeast. At 26<br />
I toured east of the Mississippi River<br />
with two different rock bands. 27–<br />
my first international gig. 28-I join a<br />
promising blues band, record several<br />
independent albums, tour domestically<br />
and abroad. At 34 we rebrand band,<br />
sign with reputable label, record first<br />
our self-produced record. 35 first<br />
Grammy nomination. 36 travel and<br />
record THE RECORD.<br />
37 COVID-19, session work, zoom<br />
lessons, home studio, and family time.<br />
Onward, always!
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