Well, my name is Joe, I am 15 years old and live in Minnesota. I've played piano for 10 years, and believe me I should be better than where I am at right now. When I first started taking lessons I was enjoying it, but around the 5 and 8th year I was really disliking it. Thats when I dropped lessons for about a half of year, I still kinda dinked around on the keys here and there. Then I got a new instructor that was all about blues and jazz, that really inspired me to get back in. I had to drop those lessons because we couldn't afford them. I also play guitar, I've kinda branched out the knowledge of music from the piano to the guitar, along with the drums also. Umm, I'm in a two bands actually, one is punk, and I'm not to crazy about it, a band with emo kids isn't that fun, in that band I play the drums. The other band I'm in is progressive/melodic metal. I play keyboard in this band and just recently bought a Yamaha S08 for it. We don't have any original recordings for it but we are working on a cover, and before I joined, they band did a video of a cover for the band Dream Theater. Hmm, I tend to try and write books, I love reading Stephen King (The Dark Tower Series is aweome), Peter Straub, John Sanford, any of those good mystery kind of things or good epic books. I skateboarding (haha, I bet that would make some of you dislike me already, but hey, its something todo), snowboarding, playing a good game of Risk with friends and listening to music. (mostly oldies and blues, but still alot of metal). And thats about all I can think of! I hope i have a good time here!