I - Jordan Messer came into this world the morning of April 27th 1984. In Yuma, Arizona is where I took my first breath. For my 4th birthday my dad brought home my first drumset (2 hours later) the heads were already busted through and were not able to come back to life so they were thrown in the trash. The second attempt my parents brought home was another set that didn't last much longer than a few days. So then came the third attempt. As it came through the door, I had never seen anything like it (in my four years with a heart beat). It was black and had so many toms that once it was set, i had to spin my chair around so i could bang every single one of them. That was a TAMA i don't even know the signature kit classic, Everyday after school i spent sitting behind the monster, practicing everything my dad had taught me from the night before.

 As my 4th grade was ending my dad got a new job up in phoenix, Arizona. So my family which consists of my mom and dad and my two sisters, My sisters were older and brutal. They enjoyed dressing me up like a girl and curling my mullet hair, but i bet it happens to every boy growing up with sisters, or maybe not. Anyways i couldn't of asked for a better family.

Growing up I stayed close to drumming and my sport of choice, baseball. I was usually found on the pitchers mound being talked to by my coach and as fun as baseball was, my drums at home were lonely and picking up dust. So after hitting a few more batters with my not so curveball, i decided to call off my baseball career and just all sports in general until my friends and i had a wacked out idea to play freshman football. I had never played on a football team before and that lasted a week and a half. The helmets were just too tight. So as the coach said waterbreak, we took off running to the locker room leaving the helmets and pads behind.

My high school days were packed spent at the malls listening to new bands with headphones in the music store, buying new clothes and wishing to find a new girlfriend.  At Age 17 I started a band with my friend Adam. We really needed a good guitar player to make our little band work and the next day is where i noticed this huge bodybuilder dude Cody, who was in my systematics (weightlifting) class. He walked into the locker room with a guitar in hand and sat down and started playing sweet little somethings to all of us who were changing into our gym clothes. I liked him and asked him to join the band. He said nope but later yes.  We together wrote enough songs to have my dad record a couple records for us. Amazingly they sold millions.......Wait nope that was a dream, but we did sell out of the few thousand we had made. This was definitely what i wanted to spend the rest of my life doing, unfortunately no paying shows were in the books. Only free shows out in the middle of the desert playing to our loyal families and the nearby cows and horses.  Now that my amazing parents gave me a car, I needed money for gas and date nights. So i got hooked with a job. I worked for an indoor painting company everyday after school. I was a hard worker, well it was hard keeping my feet out of the paint cans and spilling the paint, but yeah i was a hard worker and the pay was great.

As my four years of C's for classes that matter and A's for team sports flew by, I graduated Mountain Ridge High School in 2002 with a huge smile, but smile would slowly fall upside down knowing next up in my life I was to leave off to college. Well i didn't really leave, it was only a twenty minute drive.  I was not into school at all but, college here i came (only to stay on my moms insurance.) Luckily college only lasted a year until we decided to all drop out and jump in the van and go play shows outside of phoenix and see how far we could get.  We ended up staying gone away from home for over three months. In that time we played a lot of shows and recorded a new record that eventually got us a record deal with WORD/ TIME WARNER.

I was so super stoked to sign my name and make this dream a reality. After seeing a lot of the world,  Three records have been released nationally. My long time amazing girlfriend that i needed money for all our date nights became my amazing wife on september 9th 2006. I now have a full drum sponsorship with TRUTH CUSTOM DRUMS, drumsticks made by PRO MARK with my name on them, and shoes,shirts, and whatever they make from VANS SHOE CO.  I can only thank GOD above for giving me this life i live. I am truly blessed. Thankfully, we are not done yet, I have so much more I want to do and see.