Inside Look: Chris

Age: 18

Number of Years at Camp: 3
Hometown: Pendleton, OR

Chris came to Pendleton's Rock camp this year, not expecting too much out of the week. Mostly he came to see what he could “pull out of his butt” musically. He recently started a band--mainly just a bunch of friends playing together. In that band (they don't have a name yet), Chris plays his twenty piece drum kit, but for the camp he's only going to bring about half of it. His drum kit is an assortment of different brands that he's bought over the years. He started playing drums when he was around eleven years old.

Not only is Chris a radically stellar drum player, but he also sings, screams, growls, does the popular “pig squeal” and plays the piano, bass and guitar. Chris wants to attend Gonzaga college in Spokane. “I would like to become a music producer, or a politician.” he said.

For now, his life is very in tune with the music community. His older cousin is in the band Vanna, and he even had the chance to play the drums on tour with them for a month (their drummer had broken his arm just a bit before the band started their tour). His cousin promptly called him up and asked if Chris could play for them, the remainder of the tour. He ended up playing six shows, earning nearly seven thousand dollars, and playing at venues in Seattle, Spokane, Portland and California.

Chris is obviously an already successful musician. But “It's mainly a hobby for me,” Chris says. “I like to play music because of the feeling I get from playing it, not because of where it could take me.”