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Charlie 3000 likes to play musical instruments. Any instrument, any time. He'll sit around squeaking out horrible sounding notes on a trumpet or playing drumbeats with his car keys. He's not afraid to sound awful, which has enabled him to become passable on the quintessential rock instruments: guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. Classically trained on the string bass and tuba, Charlie used music theory and a Beatles songbook to teach himself how to play guitar and piano. A few years later he started messing around with drums, banjo, sitar, synthesizers and other random instruments he came across or inherited from his dad.
In the early 1990s in Arlington, TX, he played electric bass in a rock outfit Pelican Stride and a funk band called Funkettle and drums in the punk band Doug Gordon. Throughout this time he made homemade 4-track recordings under the name The Sheepdogs. In 1995, he moved to Austin, TX and mainly played drums in the bands It's Not Rocket Science and Taciturn (although he played guitar, bass or keyboards on a few songs here and there). Throughout this time he made homemade records with Talby and Quetalby.
In 2001, he gave up on the idea of making a living playing music and started working as a substitute teacher and eventually became a full-time special education teacher. Then in 2003, fellow It's Not Rocket Science alum, Xander Rapstine, enticed him to form The Evildoers. Charlie started out as the bass player, but when the keyboardist quit he switched to guitar and keyboards.
When not playing music with The Evildoers or writing lesson plans, Charlie watches an obscene amount of movies and spends time with his wife Somer.
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