Mr Shane Comer
| Mr Shane Comer | |
|---|---|
 shanecomer.png Shane Comer Musical Artist | |
| Native name | Shane Comer |
| Born | 1972/07/12 NEWPORT |
| 🏡 Residence | Newport |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Americian |
| 🏫 Education | Arkansas State University |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Red Wolves |
| 💼 Occupation | Musician in Newport, Arkansas |
| 📆 Years active | 34 |
| 👔 Employer | Self |
| Agent | Self |
| Known for | Running From Myself, Heaven's So Far Away, Rocketship, Judgment, Pound Of Flesh, etc.. |
| Works | 60,000+ streams on spotify and climbing. |
| 🏡 Home town | NEWPORT |
| Height | 6ft |
| Title | Musical Artist |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Rhiannon Comer |
| 👶 Children | Landon Comer, Keaton Mensendick |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Wendale Comer, Brenda Brady |
| 👪 Relatives | Kile Loftis, Craig Morris |
| 🏅 Awards | Band member that won Memphis Battle of the Band in 1996 |
| Twitter=https://twitter.com/shanecomer | |
Early Life[edit]
I am a guitarist who started learning to play as a teenager. I purchased a VMI guitar (Strat Knock Off) and a fender champ amplifier from the local Adams Brothers Store in Newport, Arkansas. I was 17 when I began playing. I went back not too much later and purchased a distortion pedal because the amp was clean only. I hit the bedroom practice hard. I was in my room practicing when I wasn't working over the summer as the groundskeeper and designated painter at the Newport Municipal Water Company. I gave up playing High School football but I keep weightlifting and playing music. I dedicated all my time to my craft. A lot of people were mad at me for my decision I made my senior year but you couldn't deny it because music was a calling. I practiced every day during my senior year of high school only time I put my guitar down was during school and when I worked a contract job reading water meters for Breckenridge Rural Water Union.
I learned mostly Glam Rock songs when I started everything from Guns and Roses to White lion. Then all of a sudden an amazing thing happened. I ordered a couple of new tablature books and when they came in one was not what I ordered. Instead of getting Cinderella Long Cold Winter; I was sent Randy Rhoads Tribute. I thought man they made a mistake but in reality, the Good Lord set me on a course of music that changed my life forever and still influences my playing to this day 31 years later as I write this. Also, thanks to a friend in High School (Kenny Thaxton) who loves Metal music, also loaned me his Randy Rhoads Tribute tape and that was it. I was changed from the inside out. That's why my core influence today is and always will be Randy Rhoads.
After a couple of years of dedicated practice; I put my 1st serious band together with the help of 2 friends I met Corby Spicer (Bass) and Mike Black (Drums). We eventually got a vocalist (Rusty Dilday) and named the band Dytrying. After, our 1st demo was recorded we replaced drummer (Mike Black) with a new drummer (Mike Hall) who fit the band better with his style of drumming. We recorded another 2 EP's at Studio-V in Jonesboro, Arkansas with Engineer Brad Vosberg. Dytrying played a lot during the year and half we were together (1992-1993). Dytrying played several shows in Newport like Shag Nasty's, Hardees, and Jack's Dairy Cup parking lot on flatbed trailers. Jonesboro and Little Rock, as well. After a lot of disagreements and fighting between the band and Rusty, the vocalist, we parted ways with Rusty.
We tried a couple of ideas to start a band with the core players so after a couple of months of auditioning singers; We decided on Matt Read as our new vocalist and added rhythm Guitarist (Lane Merrell). They played together in thier former band Killer Klowns). In no time at all we started writing new songs and agreed on the name Stonehead. We were together from 1994 through 1997. The band recorded 1 demo and 3 EP's and extensively gigged in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Missouri. We received a lot of airplay in Jonesboro, Little Rock, and Memphis. Stonehead also beat out over 350 bands from around the south to win the Strings N Things Memphis Battle of the Bands championship. In 1997, STONEHEAD disbanded over disagreements in the bands future direction and built up rifts that occurred over time and was too much to put aside.
I started writing some stuff with my long-time friend and fellow guitarist (Chris Hinkle) and decided on doing a musical project with my fellow friend and drummer (Mike Black). Soon after, we got Vocalist and Bass Player (John Parks) to join in on the musical project. We called the band project DragChain. We wrote a couple of tunes and recorded the Lunch Box demo at Delta Sounds Studio with producer Oliver Waren over a weekend that was mixed and finalized by Danny Jones a famous recording engineer that produced a lot of famous acts like Stevie Ray Vaughn, Shawn Lane, Beach Boys, Etta James, Joe Walsh, Al Green, Patti Labelle, and Black Oak Arkansas. The project we did was more commercial-type music with a strong alternative sound. We played it around a few radio stations in Jonesboro, Little Rock, and Memphis. After, the Drag Chain project was finished I joined a band with Mike Black in Olive Branch, Mississippi. The two brothers were former members of the metal band (Valhalla). We practiced a few times but we didn't have that chemistry and didn't click as a band.
(from my website www.shanecomer.com)
Career[edit]
Music Artist (Guitarist and Vocalist): Playing guitar for 34 years and singing for 2 years.
Music Producer: 1 year and learning daily.
Director of Technology: been working for the Arkansas Public School Systems for 19+ years.
Personal Life[edit]
Shane Comer is a former member of the Arkansas 90's Heavy Metal band Stonehead. Stonehead was a force to be reckoned with during the mid-90's. Stonehead gigged in Little Rock and Jonesboro, Arkansas, Memphis and Jackson, Tennessee, West Plains, Missouri, Monroe, and New Orleans. Louisiana. Shane Comer started playing guitar at the age of 17 and has taken up vocals in the last couple years. The songs on here will range from instrumentals to traditional Metal and Rock songs.
References[edit]
https://metaljunkbox.com/en/releases/shane-eating-judgment-running-from-myself/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/13ETfVeAXC7yzQOUWMfBPw?si=pY1xJu9ERne5gx4cjK8lGw
