Chris Payne:  

Life Chris here - Well - here is the scoop on me... Basically after high school I went to BC for a couple of years and decided it bored me. I could not handle being spoon-fed how wonderful the teachers were and how I should spend my money buying their book they just had published, how they were right and how no one else's opinion mattered. Even in so-called electives such as Drama and Choir how nothing was more important than that particular class the teacher was enraptured with.. how it was my civic duty to be sell my soul to their beliefs as well.. however my soul was not for sale. I dropped out; decided to find my own way. I spent my first year finding GOD, and then spent the next two years being persecuted by my "friends" for not being a sheep and believing in relationship NOT religion. I formed an alternative band in 90-92; lead vocalist; played the Whiskey in LA 3x and the Roxy in LA 2x. I then ended up marrying the drummer’s girlfriend which in a roundabout way ended the band. We tried to get it back together after that numerous times over the years, but no magic sparked like the first go-around. My wife Angela and I got married in 1992. I thought it proper to start looking for a real job at that point since I was going to be a husband.. and lets face it those who knew me knew I had trouble staying in relationships very long.. if at all, so if I was going to do it I was going to do it right. I went to school to be an electronics technician. After graduation I could not find anyone to hire me so I got odd jobs in Bakersfield and then in Las Vegas where we eventually moved. After being in Vegas for 2 years we moved back to Bako and I landed a job at Lightspeed Net - local internet provider. I worked there for...Expand for more