The X-Man Comes Home!!

[Chris Halen]

Hey Nightmare folk...just wanted to drop everyone a line that I am coming home! Well, close to home. I have taken a job cohosting the morning show on I100 in Cortland and will be moving to Cortland in the upcoming weeks. I would of already started but my back was broken in a wrestling show and I was almost paralized. I am in a back brace and I just recently stopped walking with a walker. Surgury was hell, but I survived. I start in Cortland on Monday and will be staying with my folks in Syracuse while Becky sells the house in Buffalo and we look for a new one in Cortland.

I am 100 percent a bassist now. My drumming days are over due to nerve damage in my left leg (my kick pedal leg as I am a lefty) so I am selling my drum kit for a drum machine and building an electronic studio at the new place to be my "band" as I am now just a bassist. My singing days are over as I fried my voice screaming over the amps of the last version of Tears End, so I will be doing instrumental music until I get a new band going. Kinda a cross between Atmos/Fear X and Gravewalker. Just bought a new bass amp...300 Watts of POWER. A Beringer amp with a Peavy cab. Nice sound.

Figured I would drop a line to my old friends in the area. The X-Man is coming home!

[Zadoc]

Guest-Chris said:

Hey Nightmare folk...just wanted to drop everyone a line that I am coming home!

Good to hear...Welcome back!

but my back was broken in a wrestling show and I was almost paralized. I am in a back brace and I just recently stopped walking with a walker. Surgury was hell, but I survived.

Jeez! Good to hear you're okay and somewhat recovering. I'm sorry to hear about your injuries.

I am 100 percent a bassist now. My drumming days are over due to nerve damage in my left leg (my kick pedal leg as I am a lefty) so I am selling my drum kit for a drum machine and building an electronic studio at the new place to be my "band" as I am now just a bassist.

Again, very sorry to hear about your injuries. When I was sixteen I cut my left hand very badly (almost severed a tendon - lucky that I didn't or I'd never be able to play guitar again) it was pure hell not being able to play guitar for over a month. I tried to make due on the keyboards while I healed. I empathise with your dillema.

My singing days are over as I fried my voice screaming over the amps of the last version of Tears End, so I will be doing instrumental music until I get a new band going.

Many people don't realise the damage they can cause by not learning to sing properly. It took me a few years to 'get it', but singers really need to learn to project from the diaphragm and not just by yelling or screaming. My short stint in a Black Sabbath tribute band was hell on my pipes trying to sing the tunes the way the band wanted me too.

Figured I would drop a line to my old friends in the area. The X-Man is coming home!

Good to hear that you're coping with your injuries and look forward to seeing you soon. Drop us a line when you're settled in.

[Blackdove]

I am sorry to hear about your recent injuries Chris, I too know how it feels to have to recover from an injury. I am left handed and three years ago I broke my left arm tearing the nerves and muscles that control grip and movement. I had to relearn to write, hold a fork, and make a fist. It was a slow recovery but I made it. I have faith that you will do ok too. You are a very strong person.
Welcome home, I hope that everything goes well with your move. I also hope we can turn a new chapter and pick up the pieces as friends. I personnally would like that and hope you do would too..

~Jen

[Chris Halen]

By the way, haven't been on the board in awhile. Things didn't work out in Cortland, but it did make me realize something...I was home...in Buffalo.

So, I am back in Buffalo. Got a new band, and things are going great. Happy Belated Birthday to Lord Z and I hope all is well.

[Zadoc]

It's a bizarre world you live in there, my friend. There's always something different on your horizon everytime I hear from you...

Regardless, I hope all is going well and that your recoveries from your injuries are making progress.

[Chris Halen]

Yes, I am Bizarro with my reverse "S". Superman is still alive in my world, and I wouldn't have it any other way


Good Luck with the 99 Cent show. I would love to see that.