Markus

From the darkest corner of the forests of South-Western Germany, I emerged as a loud, attention grabbing, guitar playing animal, with an instinct to entertain. As a young boy growing up in germany, I could always be caught singing and dancing. I got my first plastic guitar at the age of two. After seeing me in my diapers jamming to Sesame Street, my parents knew that I would grind that axe for a long time.

I came to the states, and at the age of ten started taking violin lessons, but liking bands such as, Slayer, Metallica and Def Leppard, the violin did not seem to fit. I ditched it, and switched to playing guitar at the age of thirteen. Since then, I have been rocking out to anything I could. After being in several bands, I then joined forces with Paul, Billy, and Mike to form Beerfish, and great times were had as we rocked South-Eastern Wisconsin.Then one day, Billy asked me to join the classic-rock, powerhouse that is Spellbound. Here I am today, as the kid of the band and I could not be happier. Hope to see you all at the show…Cheers!

Equipment
I mainly use Ibanez and Oscar Schmidt guitars, Crate amps, GHS Boomer stings and Dunlop picks. For effects pedals, I use Digitech, Washburn, BOSS and Dean Markley.

Interests
I enjoy the outdoors, reading, horror movies, cigarettes and alcohol. LOL. I love to write music, and play solo acoustic shows to pass the time between Spellbound gigs.