I'm sure most of you know that I'm a big music person. I'm not sure if everybody knows my encyclopedic music story, but I'll gladly tell it so everyone can get caught up here.

When I was little, I was surrounded by music and I used to sit in my dad's CD closet and I would just sit and stare at the binding of all the CDs. It was just a giant collage of artists and album titles and it all just sunk in. I absorbed all this information and I became encyclopedic because of it.

When I was in public school, I was heavily exposed to the mainstream and I fell into it for a while, because it was all I knew. I also had the pleasure of growing up around the scene of the Westfall location of Gallery Of Sound, so I saw a lot of stuff outside of what I knew from who I went to school with.

I vividly recall a day in 2009 when I was in 5th grade, and our teacher left early so we went to another classroom to wait for the bus ride home. I remember that one of the kids was reading a magazine, like a Tiger Beat of this day and age. I remember seeing everything in it, but nothing truly interested me.

I questioned why this was, but I never gravitated towards the mainstream. Eventually, I left public school and I enrolled in an online homeschool known CCA. Things changed. I was home due to school, and it allowed me the proper time to really explore my dad's music collection.

The earliest records I remember getting into around 5th grade was "Hands All Over" by Maroon 5 and "Nothing" by N.E.R.D., and they were albums I listened to all the time. I always recall being into Hands All Over as a full album, because whenever I listened to it, I always listened to it in full.

In late 2010, I recall asking my dad who Queen was after seeing a few of their CDs on one of his shelves. Then, I got to hear Jazz, A Night At The Opera, and Hot Space to name a few. I thought they were fascinating and Queen became everything to me. The art from Hot Space drove me to do a reinterpretation of it on my Nintendo DSi after I had gotten it for Christmas that year.

Thinking back, having the Nintendo DSi really made me love taking pictures before I really got into photography with a regular camera. I see now that it started my love for photography, photo editing, and band enthusiasm. I literally didn't realize until just now how important that one device was because everything I am now is because of who I was back then.

Coming into 2011, I find out about Eric Carr. My whole world takes a turn. I was influenced to the point of drawing Eric Carr and it was sealed. He is forever and always my favorite human being. No contest. Then, the Foo Fighters' album, Wasting Light is released. I hear it often and it really starts to sink in. I joined Tumblr because of my love for the Foo Fighters and because I loved seeing photos of them.

So, now I have a blog. A music blog. A people blog. Everything I loved. There was a minor hiatus at the end of May 2011 before I seriously started Tumblr in August 2011. I started meeting people with music compatibility. Through this, I found RHCP. Another phase happened.

Basically, this is gonna be a cycle of phases and hysteria, so we'll fast forward into 2014 when I started my record collection. I started collecting vinyl in 2014, and my collection was tiny at first. It was about 10 or 12 pieces. Now, it's over 200, if not more than that.

Through record collecting, I found some of the coolest bands. Overlooked bands. Bands that had a hit, but the album was awesome too. Music I never expected to get into but did. One of a kind bands. Rock, pop, alternative, metal, funk, and other stuff.

So, from the transition of public school to homeschool, the mainstream to the obscure, the Nintendo DSi to Vivitar to Canon, Sylvania to Blackberry, I've taken all of this influence and finally created the universe. The reality is no longer just a dream in my head.

With all these experiences, I've created Generation Clash. A blog. A blog about hidden gems and instant classics. Great bands. The ones who weren't commercially popular but they are legendary. They are only found by digging deep. There is always more than what we see. These are the bands found by taking a risk, which few dare to.

I wanted to properly recollect and welcome everyone to Generation Clash!! Weekly posts are made on Tumblr, and it can be found on Instagram as well!!

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