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Hi, I'm Gary Carter, and I'm the bass player and backing vocalist for Cry of Silence.  Ed, Garth, Young and I love to play and are eager to please - give us a listen!

I've previously played in Freezing Cheese Disease with Young and Ryan Takahashi (including two shows at UBCJA's Bandmania), and before that bei6 and 7% Milk (miscellaenous Battles of the Bands and other small shows), stretching all the way back to my freshman year in High School, when my dad and brother bought me my first (and current/only) bass.

You can also check out our Myspace page for more info including some more tracks Ed recorded for us, as well as a quick demo I've recorded myself called 'Burning Nation'.  We're all busy writing new material and getting into gigs.  Let us know what you think. :)

Gear:
I play my trusty old black '98/'99 Yamaha RBX260 with heavy Elixir nanoweb strings through a Fender BXR-25 combo (that I desperately need to upgrade, but that's what rentals are for!) and occasionally add in distortion and wah effects courtesy of my Ibanez SM7 Smashbox (dist) and WD7 Weeping Demon (wah) pedals.

I also own a Magenta Crush early 2000's Ibanez RG-7 guitar with Floyd Rose tremolo that I use for recording guitar tracks on my own demos along with aforementioned pedals.

Other pedals used from time to time include an OC-2 double Octave pedal and a BOSS Bass Equalizer.

Influences:
I have a lot of different influences from old-school thrash (Metallica, Megadeth), metal/hard rock (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin), alt-rock (Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam), newer metal (Tool/A Perfect Circle) to newer punk (Blink 182, Green Day, Sum 41) and emo (Sunny Day Real Estate, Something Corporate, Brand New).  I enjoy a bit of ska, classical, jazz or acoustic stuff from time to time, and really only draw the line at country and rap. :)