SKINLESS Guitarist: 'Dough Boy' By Day And A Heavy Metal Rocker By Night
July 16, 2004Thomas Dimopoulos of The Saratogian writes: On a gray, rain-filled afternoon when many in the local musical community were buzzing about the upcoming Aggressive Music Festival in Glens Falls this weekend, Noah Carpenter was pre-occupied with other things.
The guitarist for SKINLESS — the lone area band appearing at the big two-day music festival — was busy making pizza. And a lot of pizza, at that.
"I'm part-time rocker, part-time dough boy," says Carpenter, whose 11 years in SKINLESS has been supplemented by eight years of tossing dough into the air and painting it with cheese and tomato sauce at D'Andrea Pizza. The footnote does not go unnoticed on the band's Web site in a posting that reads: "I swear the pizza business keeps death metal alive." The sometimes surrealistic duality of Carpenter's two jobs doesn't go unnoticed either.
"One day I'm here making pizza and the next I'm rocking out in front of thousands of people on stage in Japan," he says. "When I stop to think that we've been all over Europe and to Japan and through the U.S. a half-dozen times, I really appreciate the opportunity the music has given me," says Carpenter, who makes his home in Saratoga Springs. "We started out by playing in a small basement in South Glens Falls, and last month we played at a festival in France for 10,000 people." Read more.
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