Jacoby Shaddix

So music is in the family.

My grandmother was a singer.

Her father was in the big bands like in the 1930s and stuff like that.

So he was in the pit orchestra for the Marx Brothers and they did a lot of traveling and he played piano and clarinet, saxophone, you name it.

Um, and did that life.

And then my grandma sang and like the chorus lines and stuff like that.

My mom wasn't really musically inclined, but had a love for music.

And I just grew up loving music.

Like it was just, I fell in love with, I remember poison was like one of the first bands.

I was such a huge fan.

And, uh, yeah.

Shout out to Brett Michaels, dude.

You're an awesome dude.

You're the real deal.

Um,

But yeah, I discovered music and just I was the kid with the wiffle ball bat in the front yard playing air guitar and setting up the trash cans upside down in the garage, you know, playing with fire, beating on drums, putting on my own pyro in the garage, like, you know, just like a goofball.

And I just had this love for music.

And then when I finally got in high school and met my OG drummer, Dave Buckner, we were playing football in high school together.

And I was a drummer.

He was a drummer.