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Members:	BRETT MARKLE - Guitar and vocals KEN ANDERSON - Guitar and vocals KEVIN HAMMOND - Drums and vocals LENNY LOW - Bass and vocals PATRICK O'BRIEN - Lead vocals

Influences:	The finest the 80's had to offer: Whitesnake, Dokken, Poison, RATT, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Warrant, Van Halen...and the list goes on!


Brett Markle:	Brett "Brettal" Markle was just a baby when he was found in an alley behind the Rainbow on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The man who found him happened to be the one and only Richard Dawson. He grew up in the hills of Hollywood and was often seen running around outside the clubs of the bourgeoning glam rock scene that was coming to life. When he was only 12 he wrote an updated version of the Family Feud theme song with his then baby-sitter, Kevin Dubrow. It was Kevin who introduced Brett to Sir Randy Rhoads, who gave Brett his first flying V guitar. Brett spent the better part of his teenage years in his room memorizing every riff he heard blasting from his radio. Despite his adopted father's prolonged absences and unusual sexual escapades, Brett managed to find common ground with Richard in the form of gold jewelry. The two would jet around the United States looking for most expensive gold chains they could find. It was on one of these trips that Brett met his idol, Nuno Bettencourt. Nuno asked Brett to join him onstage at the Freddy Mercury Tribute concert for a medley of Queen songs. It was this defining moment that led Brett down, the path of the righteous man, who is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. He always carries his guitar and is always ready to rock and roll.

Ken Anderson:	Growing up as a young virtuoso (and son of famed broadcast journalist Ron Burgundy), Ken was responsible for showing many of the 80's axe slingers their signature chops. As a young lad at 6, he showed Eddie Van Halen how to tap; at 10, he recommend that Randy Rhoades add pentatonic scales to heavy rock; at 13, he worked with George Lynch on a crazy vibrato; and at 14, he showed Kirk Hammett there were 5 other string on the guitar (not just an E string, though that lesson was obviously not retained). In reality, Ken grew up idolizing Ace Frehley, Neil Schon and Jimmy Page. When he got his first guitar, he realized the power of METAL! The first song he learned was Living After Midnight, and his love for hard rock and metal grew from there. His 80's heroes include George Lynch, Jake E. Lee, Warren Demartini and John Sykes. His only previous band experience was as lead guitar in Sforzato, a power trio that went absolutely nowhere while he was in high school. A chance Craigslist ad brought the core of Hairmageddon together. Through a few lineup changes (due to spontaneous combustions, arrests and gender alteration surgeries), and the addition of Kidd Wikkid's Patrick O'Brien on vocals, the current lineup of the 'geddon blows away the competition with no gimmick, straight-ahead METAL!

Kevin Hammond:	Kevin took up drumming at the age of 8, much to the chagrin (if you don't know the meaning of the word chagrin, please Google it) of his parents and next- door neighbors. Little did they know the havoc he would wreak upon the world of music. His first band, The Rage, played 60's-80's covers, eventually moving into doing their own material and landing a song on Montana Gold, a compilation album of Montana's biggest bands (or whoever could come up with $500 to be on the album). Kevin next played in Stryker, an 80's hard rock/heavy metal outfit that wore spiked wristbands and only the finest leather vests. A chance impromptu jam at a Sentinel Spartan pep rally led to Kevin joining up with the Jackson brothers to form The Edge, which after several line-up changes morphed into Kidd Wikkid. Kidd Wikkid toured for a few years on the cover band circuit (Pocatello, Idaho would never be the same again) and eventually raised enough money to put out their own CD, strangely enough titled "Kidd Wikkid". After several failed attempts at perfecting time travel in a DeLorean, Kevin is now a DJ and Producer for CBS Radio. He's gone back to his roots in Hairmageddon, covering the 80's hard rock and heavy metal we all know and love. His next door neighbors are still chagrining.

Lenny Low:	"There are things known and things unknown and ..." some things are too awesome to capture with mere words.

Patrick O'Brien:	Patrick O'Brien was a newborn baby when he first crossed paths with his future idol, Ann Wilson. Coincidentally, the day he was born Ann was on duty as the nurse at his delivery. One touch from her and his fate was sealed. Years later his love of donuts and screaming hot rock and roll finally makes sense. For many of his early years he kept trying to form bands with many of his sisters. These proved to be all failures. Until, one day sometime in the 80s he was playing with his Merlin (the electronic wizard) in a park and a dark shadow blocked his game of Echo and he lost. He looked up in anger to see the shadow was coming from his future drummer. He punched his future drummer in the face. This punch gave birth to Kidd Wikkid. They became famous, for a short time, until Kurt Cobain stole all their equipment one rainy afternoon and formed his own band. This only made Patrick more determined. He tracked down his idol Ann Wilson years later and began his vocal training in the back of an old bakery down along the Arizona/Mexico border. Once his training was complete he made his way back north on horseback. While in Reno, he stumbled into a club where Dr. Hook was doing a cover of You're the One that I Want. Dr. Hook told him to head to Seattle and start singing every song he ever heard from the 1980s. What you hear now is Patrick's destiny.