For back up I have a Marshall DSL 50.

Joey I play through an Ibanez half stack and on a B.C. Rich Kerry King Signature guitar.

Javier Dead Skin Mask seems like it has been together for years. Did all of you grow up together in high school bands?

DannyM No we didn’t. I have known Mykill for less than a year. I answered and ad in a local magazine that said "SLAYER SLAYER SLAYER !!! Can you play their music? Prove it. No age, race or gender restrictions. If you have skill, you have job". I contacted him, sent him some home made Slayer recordings that I had made and set up a time to go and meet and jam with him. That laid foundation for Dead Skin Mask.

Joey answered an ad on a flyer that I hung at a music store when we were looking for a guitarist. Mykill already knew Romeo. I think they were in a previous band together.

Javier How long have you been with dsm?

Joey For about 5 months.

Javier You really do a good job, it seems your heart is in it. Keep playing and keep bringing fans an excellent tribute. There are too many bad bands giving tributes a bad rap. Slayer tributes are popping up fast, hopefully they(all poor tributes) won't sway people from going to see you guys. Thanks for your time!

Joey Thanks for showing up at show and thanks for taking time to chat.

DannyM No, Thank you Javier. I really enjoyed questions. I love talking about amps, guitars, tone, and Slayer music.

Best Regards, DannyM

Check out Dead Skin Mask. They ARE Ultimate Slayer tribute band, with out a doubt! http://www.deadskinmask.com

At time of this post, Dead Skin Mask is:

Romeo - vocals DannyM - guitar Joey - guitar Mykill - drums Dan? - bass

Javier Escandoza

Samuel Barber, one of America ’s most popular twentieth-century composers, has been called “Neo-Romantic” because his works use structures from that earlier period, and also because his writing is often inspired by literature. Such is his “Music for a Scene from Shelley,” written in Italy, where Percy Bysshe Shelley had written his epic poem Prometheus Unbound in 1820.

The poem is Shelley’s adaptation of incredible Greek legend of Prometheus Titan, who is chained to a desolate mountaintop by Zeus as punishment for stealing fire from gods and giving it to mankind. Did you know that liver tissue can regenerate? In myth, an eagle comes every day to eat Titan’s liver. Eventually prisoner is rescued by mighty mortal Hercules, and goddess Athena brokers a clever peace agreement between Zeus and Prometheus. Barber’s brief piece captures larger-than-life scene beautifully.

“WE ARE ROMANS, LET US PASS!” Tonight’s marquee piece was incredible Feste Romane, or “Roman Festivals,” written by Ottorino Respighi in 1928. This extravagant tone poem is final act in composer’s trilogy about Eternal City (along with The Fountains of Rome and The Pines of Rome). Feste so vividly depicts ancient Roman scenes that one conductor declared it “almost intolerably realistic”.

Ancient Rome was not a gentle place. The first movement, “Circuses,” opens with competing trumpet fanfares and sets a chaotic scene of rowdy crowds, wild animals, and growing excitement. Layered above this mess are melancholy strains representing martyrs who will soon be torn limb from limb for Romans’ entertainment. The mayhem stops abruptly with beginning of second movement. “The Jubilee” depicts pilgrims on road to Rome with a soft andante passage by strings. Gradually tempo quickens and volume increases as city draws near, and a sudden horn fanfare and church bells announce travelers’ arrival.

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