James+Griffin

James Griffin[|song.doc]

One of the greatest punk vocalists in rock history, Bryan Keith Holland was born two days before the end of 1965 in Orange County, California to a father who was a hospital-administrator and a mother w ho was a school teacher. He is the third of four children of his family. Holland has cited bands/artists such as [|Aerosmith], [|The Beatles], [|Bob Dylan], [|KISS], [|Bob Marley], [|Queen], [|The Rolling Stones], UFO ( with [|Michael Schenker]) and [|Van Halen], among others, as his early influences.

By the time he was in high school, he got turned on to punk music by listening to the Adolescents, Agent Orange, Bad Brains, [|Bad Religion], [|Black Flag], [|Circle Jerks], [|The Clash], [|Descendents], [|Ramones], [|The Sex Pistols], [|Social Distortion], T.S.O.L. and [|The Vandals]. This was when he came up with an idea of starting a band and it wasn't until he formed "Manic Subsidal" in 1984 along with fellow band mate 'Greg K.' and later changed their name to "The Offspring" in 1985 after they found [|Noodles] as their second guitarist.

After spending a few years on the local scene, his band released finally released its first album, simply titled "The Offspring", in 1989, which had been released in limited amounts only in a 12" Vinyl format and a CD release for the album wouldn't occur until 1995. Two years later, The Offspring were signed signed to Epitaph Records in 1991 and their second album "Ignition" came out in 1992. Their next album, "Smash" (1994), finally brought The Offspring into the mainstream success, containing hit singles as "Come Out and Play" and "Self-Esteem". The Offspring then released a number of more albums ("Ixnay on the Hombre" in 1997, "Americana" in 1998, "Conspiracy of One" in 2000 and "Splinter" in 2003) and his band has been very successful ever since. Sheryl Crow was born on February 11, 1962 in Kennett, Missouri to a family immersed in music. Her father Wendell Crow played trumpet in swing bands before becoming a lawyer, and her mother Bernice taught piano. Sheryl began piano lessons at age 5, and growing up on the music of artists such as Christine McVie, Elton John, and Bob Dylan, she composed her first song at age 13. She went on to major in music at the University of Missouri in Columbia, and while there, she became part of a rock cover band named Cashmere. After graduating, Sheryl taught music to autistic children for two years at a St. Louis elementary school, and has since been an advocate of Save the Music, a program that supports the teaching of music in schools.

Best Time of My Life The best time of my life would have been the summer of 2010. I had great friends, great life and money. I got my first car June 24, 2010. Me and all my friends almost every day would just drive till we couldnt go any further. we all chipped in for gas and it was a great time. i will never forget the amount of money i spent on gas and monster. We drove to all different places say so much and met so many new people. i always with that those days never left. Nothing has ever been so fun to me than having the windows down with the radio going and monster. it seemed so perfect. we told stories of when we were young and how much we have changed. you really know who your real friends are when you can tell them anything and they will do the same and never tell a soul. we became so much closer as friends and we always found a way to make the days fun. i bought the car with 154,000 miles on it, at the end of august i had 176,000 miles on it. thats over twenty thousand miles of memories from day 1 till day 70. we drove for 4 maybe 5 hours each day never even thought about stopping. nights went by were we never even made it back to hornell. we went as far west as the mississippi river and as far south as georgia, our longest drive was a total of 2,194 miles along the whole east coast to the southern tip of georgia. took us only about 3 days and it was so worth every moment.