Chris Armstrong:
CLASS OF 1977
Mesa High SchoolClass of 1977
Mesa, AZ
McClintock High SchoolClass of 1977
Tempe, AZ
Marcos De Niza High SchoolClass of 1977
Tempe, AZ
Tempe High SchoolClass of 1977
Tempe, AZ
McKemy Intermediate SchoolClass of 1973
Tempe, AZ
Chris's Story
Life
Note: For my friends from Scales Elementary and McKemy Junior High, who knew me as the band-geek, Chris Powell, my step-father adopted me and I became Chris Armstrong, the band-geek, when I went to Mesa High.
I went on to continue my band-geek apprenticeship at Mesa Community, then at CalArts where I got my BFA and MFA in music (of India and Africa mostly). Did some Ph.D. coursework in Ethnomusicology at UCLA and studied a bit of Afro-Latin music at Cal State LA. Over the last 25 years I've had 7 surgeries for neck injuries (the most recent one 2 months ago) and a couple of "syndromes" in my arms and hands that have slowed up my drumming career a lot. So at times I've also been a computer-geek w...Expand for more
hen I couldn't drum for medical reasons.
Now,(2006) I'm a professional band-geek in Los Angeles with my amazingly supportive and all-around wonderful wife Mary - of 20 years (no kids...yet!?!) - where I perform mostly African music, teach a bunch of students, compose music and sadistically difficult drum ditties, record for TV, Disney, etc. and do spooky musical "atmospheric" designs for a TV/independent film composer.
I'm also working on a new (dare I say REVOLUTIONARY?) kind of drum design that will "shock the drumming world" and shake the "soulless minions of orthodoxy" from their somnambulistic complacency. Bwaaaahaahaaaaa. [wrings hands with a fiendish grin and a disturbing look in his eyes].
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