Seth Deming Guitar/Voice
1. Who are you?Seth-ro Demin'
2. Birthday
Dec 31st
3. Where are you from?
Maple Park, IL
4. Highschool?
Kaneland High
5. College?
Waubonsee/Kishwalkee
6. Job?
I'm in insurance. (woot!)
7. What do you play in Keslinger?
Guitar and Voice
8. How long have you been playing for?/ How did you get started?
I think I was like 11 or something when I got my first instrument. My Dad plays bass, and he had an extra one kicking around that I found while snooping through his stuff with my sister. In fact, the same time I found the bass, she found an acoustic guitar, which would later turn out to be instrumental in me playing the guitar.
My Dad came home from work, and found us attempting to play the instruments. I thought we were going to be punished, but instead, he gave us those instruments right there. My sister got the guitar, which was fine with me. I remember thinking it didn't look "rock and roll", so I didn't care. That bass though...I just thought it looked like the coolest thing ever made. I remember opening the case for it was like opening a treasure chest; but instead of gold, I found a sweet 70's style, sunburst finished bass-accented with chrome hardware. Whew.
I started playing the bass for real after "jamming" with some local kids. One of the kids played guitar pretty well for his age and he taught me a 12 bar blues scale. After a few months I started taking lessons and learning Green Day songs by ear.
After a couple years of playing bass, my sister eventually upgraded from the crappy acoustic to a red stratocaster knock off. But I didn't care that it was a knock off, that thing was like the sword in the stone to me, and I was King Arthur. Except, it wasn't mine and I couldn't pull it away from my sister, but I wanted to own it. I wanted to be the guitar king.
When I was fourteen I remember playing the bass and I having my little amp turned all the way up, distorted. I was playing some sort of bass solo where I'd eventually start strumming on the two high strings. My Dad walked into the room and told me to stop playing like that. I'm not sure what he said exactly but it was something like this, "If you're gonna play the bass, then play bass. But to me, I think you're a guitarist."
I believed him.
From that point on, I put the bass back in its' treasure chest and picked up the guitar. At night, I'd play my sisters guitar, riffing on Metallica with tablature that I printed off of the internet, until I was able to play those crazy metal songs. Eventually I got as a buss boy and used the money from my earnings to buy a $200.00 Ibanez at a local guitar store. One of the best investments I ever made.
9. Who are/were your influences?
Like I said, Metallica was huge in teaching me how to play guitar, but I was also largely influenced by musically and vocally by Green Day, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Silverchair, 311, Goldfinger, Five Iron Frenzy, Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, The Talking Heads, and Michael Jackson. More recently; Greg Wheaton, Muse, Rodrigo y Gabriella.
But I really think my main influence was my Dad. He was in a band when I was a kid, and I remember thinking that's what guys do, they grow up and play in bands. In fact he taught me how to play be ear, and how to play at all.
10. What living person who would like like to meet?
Conan O'brian.
11. What deceased person would you like to meet?
My Grandpa on my Dads side. I'd like to meet him as an adult, since I was really young when he died. I think it'd be cool to go back in time and talk to him when he was in his 20's. It's just crazy to think that at one time, that old guy with gray hair was my age, and was in the same place in life.
12. Top three favorite movies?
The Matrix (first one only!), Bourne Identity, Batman Begins.
13. Top three favorite TV shows?
The Office, Lost, and Conan O'brian.
14. Favorite canceled TV show?
Firefly
15. Favorite band you've seen live?
Muse
16. Favorite band you've played with?
Company of Thieves & Ludo
17. Favorite Keslinger show?
Our pre cd release at the house café in march 2008. This was the show where I really started being myself and stopped trying to be a rock star. HAVE SOME FUN DANGIT!
18. Worst Keslinger show?
The house of blues opening for Hanson. Our friends, family, and fans waited outside in the cold, paid like $50.00 to get in, only to miss us, because the stupid management decided we could only play for the Hanson fan club, who got in early. Bah.
19. Gear?
I play a b52 head on an ampeg cabinet I Frankenstein-ed from an old solid state amp. I play a Schechter C-1+ electric as well. I use boss pedals (tuning only) and that's it. Pretty basic, Jon has more interesting stuff.
20. Ambitions aside from Keslinger?
I'm really into film making and writing.
21. Past bands you've been in?
Zymotic (rock on!), 6ms, M.o.m.a.n. (members of Mitchell and Nick)& Mitchell.
22. Favorite books?
Snow Crash, 1984, Most of the Lee Child Books, The Harry Potter Books, Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, The Narina Books, The Whipping Boy, The Watchmen, The Dark Night, The Dark Night Returns, On Writing, Birthright, etc.
23. Favorite Actor?
Christian Bale
24. Favorite Actress?
Jena Fisher?? I don't know...I've never really thought about this before....
25. Pet peeves?
People who interrupt, streets where all you see is giant billboards and advertisements (yuck), Email forwards, terrible puns.
26. Favorite food?
Pizza
27. Hobbies?
Spending time with my friends, film, video games, and learning to play all the Rodrigo y Gabriella songs.
28. Websites you frequent?
Facebook, my online classes (which I should be doing right now, but instead I'm filling out this crazy long survey that my mom might not even get though), youtube. Really, nothing interesting. Sorry, no cnn.com here.
29. Favorite Shampoo?
Aussie (read the bottles, its hilarity)
30. Favorite Razor?
Gillette Disposable Mach 3's. I really like the fact that they can call a razor ‘mach' anything.
31. Favorite Magazine?
Gameinformer.
32. Do you read when you're in the bathroom?
Gameinformer. Haha.
33. Guilty pleasure tv show?
Friends or American Idol
34. Guilty pleasure movie?
The ‘Scary Movie' movie where they make fun of Tom Cruise
35. Guilty pleasure band?
Kelly Clarkson
36. Do you talk to your self out loud when no one is around?
Yes.
37. First girl you had a crush on?
Some hottie in 3rd grade. I don't remember her name and I never told her so it was unrequited anyway. OR Rouge from the x men cartoons.
38. Super power you wish you had?
I'd be sweet to have a mutant healing factor, and bone claws. Then I could then have wrapped with indestructible metal....
39. Do you chew your nails?
Nope.
40. Do you drum on things that aren't drums?
Wait, a table isn't a drum? Actually, true story here, Jon, Nick and I were drumming so loud on my kitchen table, we had the cops called on us for disturbing the peace. That's right, we disturbed the peace through our table drumming. The Beatles got arrested for playing on top of a building, and we got in trouble for banging on my kitchen table.
41. Favorite TV show growing up?
X-Men Cartoon
42. Most humiliating high school moment?
Asking a girl during at a dance if she enjoyed our kiss (my first) the night before, and her telling me ‘no'. TAKE THAT PRIDE!!
43. Did you play sports in high school? If yes, what did you play?
No, I should have but I didn't.
44. What crowd were you a part of back then?
Sorry for this, but I have to give the pat answer everyone gives, ‘all of them'-but for me it's true. Mainly though, I hung out with the guys who were in other bands, and the druggies.
45. Favorite subject in High School or College?
Math, literature, and Geometry in High school and College.
46. Favorite invention in the last five years?
Networks streaming tv shows over the internet.
47. Worst invention in the last five years?
Reality TV
48. Favorite quote?
"I don't believe in coddling people. In the wild there is no health care. In the wild, health care is "ow, I hurt my leg. I can't run, a lion eats me and I'm dead. We'll I'm not dead. I'm the lion. You're dead!"
-Dwight Schrute
49. Are you a morning or a night person?
Night.
50. Meanest thing you've ever done to a sibling?
Aside from stealing guitars, and money, I think the meanest thing I did was nothing. We had a neighbor kid who was a few years older than me. He was huge, and he was a bully. One day he shot a bb gun or a rock from a slingshot at my sister while she was riding her bike, and (thankfully) it hit the bike frame and not her. When she told me about it I did nothing, I was too afraid. What I should have done, was attacked that guy. Even though I would have most likely gotten the crap beat out of me, I would have at the very least been a good brother.
51. What's playing on your ipod/cd player/8 track now?
ipod: Rodrigo y Gabriela
CD: House of Heroes
8track: The Beatles.
