To all that visit my page- thank you and welcome. I'm another player still chasing the dream, and playing every chance I get for the pure love and adrenaline of playing out and, every now and then, actually touching someone from across the room. It's pure magic when it happens, and in truth, even after a lifetime of committed and often misguided pursuit, playing and performing are what I still passionately live to do in the middle of everything else in my life that I have to do. I was first made aware of Music Nation in the course of doing a series of studio collaborations with my friends. The results of these sessions are 6 songs, 4 of which are posted on the page of Mark Holman-Holworks here on Music Nation, linked on my page. They are very good songs with great professional production by Andy Pow at Digital Wave Recording, so if you get a chance, stop by his page and check them out. Finding this site has in many ways been a boon to me, inspiring me to take the plunge into home-recording, something I wish I'd done a long time ago. Since then, I've had the distinct pleasure of doing collaborations with 8 different Music Nation artists to date in which I added guitar and some harmony vocal tracks to their already-finished MP3's. These, along with one song I wrote and recorded, are the songs I have posted on this page. These are my first baby steps into home-recording and I've enjoyed doing them tremendously. Time permitting, I will take every opportunity to collab with anyone that wishes, just hit me up. I thank you sincerely for taking the time to read this.

~ The Altruistic Messiah ~ a.k.a. ~ Ben Vandagriff & THE CEO OF ROCK & ROLL ! says
~ The Altruistic Messiah ~ a.k.a. ~ Ben Vandagriff & THE CEO OF ROCK & ROLL ! says
901 PINE says
Hey, Where You Been?
~ The Altruistic Messiah ~ a.k.a. ~ Ben Vandagriff & THE CEO OF ROCK & ROLL ! says
VANDAGRIFFSUPERSTAR WHO R U WHAT HAVE YOU SACRIFICE
~ The Altruistic Messiah ~ a.k.a. ~ Ben Vandagriff & THE CEO OF ROCK & ROLL ! says
KC Johns says
Hey hope you are having a good week!! Check out some of my new songs and we redid Firefilies once again m=with a steal gutair!! you can check it out on myspace and alot of my other stuff live on you tube would love you comments and thoughts thansk=)
~ The Altruistic Messiah ~ a.k.a. ~ Ben Vandagriff & THE CEO OF ROCK & ROLL ! says
Mortimer & Randall Duke bet $1 they could wreck Music Nation in this newest version of "Trading Places 2"Mark Holman says
This might make you laugh, my new Christmas Song.http://community.ascap.com/kickapps/_Were-Going-Green-This-Christmas-/audio/271217/27521.html
Wild Bill Austin & The North 40 says
To all my friends: A Thanksgiving Wish: May you be thankful for your gifts and may you share them freely with the world. Here is my Thanksgiving Song for 2008: "Thank You." Thank you for tolerating my aimless, 20th Century musical wanderings so graciously for such a long time.I'm going to retire from writing. It has made me so nutty this past year, the squirrels get excited when I walk out my front door. (I f you can't get on MN so follow link to MySpace. Thanks, and be great!!) I'll drop in from time to time, to say, howdy. y'all. "Fight the good fight, everybody." (from an old Canadian Rock Band~and proverb) And Happy Thanksgiving! See ya!!! Remember, Wild Bill. http://www.myspace.com/wildbillaustin First try: http://musicnation.com/music/wildbillaustin/thank-you
~ The Altruistic Messiah ~ a.k.a. ~ Ben Vandagriff & THE CEO OF ROCK & ROLL ! says
Hippy Thanksgiving !!!!!!Peace~Love & Respect, Ben