[From terrygrant.net]: A bit of history: I used to have the standard dj biography. For some inexplicable reason, every dj, producer, and musician in the world writes essentially the exact same gash in these things. Let's see... they always start with a line about how music grabbed you at an early age, how you found the passion for creation, or how you were drawn by some invisible tractor beam toward a life of expression through the arts. "I didn't choose this life, it chose me." I suppose it's true, really. Growing up in Ohio, my parents were always listening to old soul and rhythm 'n' blues records, and I remember identifying with that sound. That sound... Not that I had any idea about soul (or rhythm) at the time, but it was that beat - that groove - that got to me. Something about those drums and that bass, and the way they worked together, well... it just did it for me. Then I got a little older, discovered girls, and I realized that it was going to take a little more than a baggy t-shirt, a shy smile, and a bowl cut to get any of them to pay attention to me. So I took up the guitar and - listen up guys and girls - it worked. It always works. Just ask... well... anyone who plays, really. Eventually I grew up (legally, anyway) and flew the coop for Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a career as a guitar player. And then... A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. You see, all my life I'd been a fan of movie soundtracks and electronic music. I wa

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