Max X

Max X learned to play the drums at age 14 on a drum set made out of boxes, pieces of wood, a spring and the cut out bottom of a tin trash can
Max X played all the instruments on Ride In Your Eyes except the guitar on “Singin’ In The Rain” played by Esteban Lopez Blanco
Max X lived in a van in Los Angeles from 1994 to 1997 with a mattress, a Bunsen burner and a guitar where he wrote all the songs on the album, Dark Days
Max X got his name from a high school tennis teammate that called him “Mad Max” to pump him up for matches
Max X writes songs about battling dysfunction Max X wrote all the songs on the album, Ride In Your Eyes, in his car singing into a cell phone
Max X took piano, guitar and vocal classes when he was at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte while getting a BA in psychology and playing on the tennis team
Max X was born Aug 22, 1969 in Concord Massachusetts
Max X once rented a large closet in an office building in Korea Town, Los Angeles for $100/month until they found out he was recording music and living there
Max X’s mother always played Roger Whittaker, Anne Murray and Barbara Streisand around the house
Max X spent 2 ½ years recording Ride In Your Eyes in a spare bedroom between teaching tennis lessons
Max X and his wife, Evelyne, live in Los Angeles and have a large orange cat named Tigger
Max X has qualified for two pro tennis tournaments
Max X’s first album that he bought was the Grease soundtrack
Max X’s father is a house painter
Max X minored in Poetry at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and gave a recital while underage and drinking a beer.
Max X wrote his first song in college called “Diamond Tears”