Kevin Young

Q: What’s your favorite Bible verse?
A: Proverbs 3:5,6 “Trust in the Lord with your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. Acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will direct your paths.”

Q: What’s your signature stage move?
A: Bouncing Tiger, Screaming Dragon

Q: What are your early influences?
A: Petra, Whitecross, Guardian, Bride, Stryper, Holy Soldier, Fear Not, Bon Jovi, Firehouse, Def Leppard, Cinderella, Chicago, Warrant, Europe, Guns N’ Roses, Heart, Metallica, Skid Row, Whitesnake, Winger, Alice In Chains, Stuck Mojo

Q: What are your current influences?
A: Hillsong United, U2, Lenny Kravitz, Sevendust, Papa Roach, My Chemical Romance, Muse, The Used, Killswitch Engage
Resume: – C.I.A. 1989, Disciple 1989-1990 Remnant 1991, The Anchormen 1992 (Southern Gospel/bass player), Green Meadow Church Worship Pastor 1995-2004, Disciple 1992-present

Q: What’s your favorite album?
A: Warrant / Cherry Pie

Q: What’s your favorite song?
A: U2 / Beautiful Day

Q: What’s your favorite book besides the Bible?
A: Driven By Eternity / John Bevere

Q: What’s your favorite movie?
A: Braveheart

Q: What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
A: Never say anything negative about your wife to someone else.

Q: What’s the most frequently asked question you get?
A: How do you scream like that?

Q: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever autographed?
A: A mortgage contract.

Q: What is your favorite Disciple song?
A: Things Left Unsaid

Q: How did you join disciple?
A: I started playing in a band with some guys in middle school – Tim Barrett, Josh Cochran, and Paul Hogan. We were called Disciple because one of our three songs was called Disciple. We played only one show in September of 1990. The band split up shortly after that. Tim Barrett and I started Disciple for the second time in December of 1992 with Brad Noah and Adrian Ditamossi. Adrian left the band shortly after our first show, which was in May of 1993. After his departure, I added playing bass guitar to my vocal duties.

Q: How long have you been in Disciple?
A: December 1992

Q: How long have you been playing your instrument?
A: I started singing in church when I was 5 years old.

Q: Who is your favorite musical artist?
A: U2

Q: What musical training have you had?
A: 4 years of piano lessons, one vocal lesson, 2 years of drum lessons, 5 years of band, 2 years of marching band, Senior year performed in Maryville Singers class, and I have performed approximately 2000 concerts which is what I call hands-on training.

Q: Where are you from?
A: Maryville, TN

Q: Who is your favorite vocalist?
A: Tie between Sebsatian Bach and Celine Dion

Micah Sannan

Q: What’s your favorite Bible verse?
A: Phil. 4:6-7 “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.”

Q: What’s your signature stage move?
A: You can call me flip MaGee.

Q: What are your early influences?
A: Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Hendrix

Q: What are your current influences?
A: John Mayer, Muse, Coldplay, Beatles, ben folds, Bury Your Dead, Iron Glory

Q: What equipment do you use?
A: EVH 5150. Mesa Boogie 4×12 cabs. Jim Root Custom Telecaster. Highway 1 telecaster w/ custom pickups. mogami cables. Peavey Wireless system. Boss DD-20 Delay. MXR phase 100. Little Aligator Volume pedal. GHS strings.

Q: Resume:
A: Falling Up, The Send, A Dream Too Late, Everlife

Q: What’s your favorite album?
A: “viva la vida” by Coldplay, “continuum” by John Mayer, “lies for the liars” by The Used

Q: What’s your favorite song?
A: Glass of Water by Coldplay

Q: What’s your favorite book besides the Bible?
A: Mere Christianity

Q: What’s your favorite movie?
A: Fight Club

Q: What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
A: “just take it one day at a time.” -My Mama

Q: What’s the most frequently asked question you get?
A: Why’d you cut your hair? answer: I didn’t, brain surgeons did.

Q: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever autographed?
A: A live turtle.

Q: What is your favorite Disciple song?
A: Worth the Pain

Q: How did you join disciple?
A: While in Falling Up, We toured with Disciple. A few years later, kevin ran into a close buddy of myn at a festival and told him Disciple was looking for a guitar player, my buddy knew i was looking for a gig so a few days later i got a call from Kevin. I tried out while the band was on tour with superchick. shortly after my try out i was inducted in with many wooden paddle swats to the rear.

Q: How long have you been in Disciple?
A: Since March 14th of 2008.

Q: How long have you been playing your instrument?
A: Started in 1998.

Q: Who is your favorite musical artist?
A: Muse

Q: What musical training have you had?
A: 3 years of guitar lesson when i was very young.

Q: Where are you from?
A: Originally Albany, Oregon. Currently Franklin, Tennessee

Andrew Welch

Q: What’s your favorite Bible verse?
A: John 3:30 – “He must become greater; I must become less.”

Q: What’s your signature stage move?
A: Left foot on the monitor.

Q: What are your early influences?
A: You wouldn’t be familiar with my direct influences. Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Derek Trucks, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Andy Fairweather Low, Randy Williams, Jonny Lang, etc.

Q: What are your current influences?
A: Basically the same as my What are your early influences?…I’ve accumulated a few more over the years. John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa, Doyle Bramhall II, Jonathan Steingard, etc. I’m more interested in players with good tone than players that can play a million notes per second. Tone comes more from the hands than anything else….so if a player has good tone, that means he knows what he’s doing with his hands. As far as bands that have influenced me: Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Thrice, Them Crooked Vultures, Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, He Is Legend, Pantera, Falling Up, Sevendust, Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters, Iron Glory

Q: What equipment do you use?
A: ’99 Les Paul Standard
’95 Fender Telecaster with EMG pickups
’03 Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Solo
’85 Marshall JCM 800
GHS strings
Monster and Mogami cables
Boss TU-2 tuner
Ibanez Tubescreamer
MXR Phase 90
Boss DD-20 Giga Delay
Boss DD-3 Delay
Mesa/Boogie 4×12 cabinets

Q: Resume:
A: 1994 White Lightning
2002 Echelon
2002 Various worship bands
2004 Stepview
2005 Until We Breathe Our Last
2005 – 2006 Ever Since Tomorrow
2006 – 2007 Capital Lights (then called AfterEight)
2007 Pillar (guitar tech)
2008 – Present Disciple
2009 Decyfer Down (fill in)
2009 Skillet (played a Bon Jovi song at one show but I’m counting it)

Q: What’s your favorite album?
A: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV

Q: What’s your favorite song?
A: “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos

Q: What’s your favorite book besides the Bible?
A: I’m not a big reader, but I do enjoy biographies. I’d say Eric Clapton’s autobiography.

Q: What’s your favorite movie?
A: A Goofy Movie hands down.

Q: What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
A: The most important lessons are the ones you learn after you’ve realized you don’t know everything.

Q: What’s the most frequently asked question you get?
A: “Do you think Micah would take a picture with me?”

Q: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever autographed?
A: A prosthetic leg.

Q: What is your favorite Disciple song?
A: “Worth It All”

Q: How did you join disciple?
A: I was working as a guitar tech for Pillar in 2007. Disciple and Pillar have known each other for years so when Disciple had a need for guitarist they called Pillar. Pillar gave them my name and I auditioned at Christmas Rock Night in Germany in December of 2007. They brought me to their hotel room and I played “Scars Remain” for them and they asked me to play a couple of shows. The rest is history.

Q: How long have you been in Disciple?
A: My first show was December 31st 2007.

Q: How long have you been playing your instrument?
A: I started playing guitar in 1994.

Q: Who is your favorite musical artist?
A: Either Led Zeppelin or Foo Fighters.

Q: What musical training have you had?
A: I haven’t really had any formal training. My stepdad taught me my first few chords on guitar in 1994 and the rest I picked up by playing along with records. In 1997 I started playing trombone in the Junior High band and learned to read music a little. Around 2004 or 2005 I took a few lessons from Noah Henson of Pillar. My wife has recently started teaching me a little bit of music theory.

Q: Where are you from?
A: I was born in Houston, TX but we moved about 45 minutes later. My earliest memories are when I lived in Louisiana so i consider it home. We moved around a lot when I was really young (Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Connecticut, Oklahoma). When I was 5 or 6 we ended up in Poteau, OK and I lived there until I graduated High School in 2004. All that to say: I’m from Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma….and now I live in Tennessee….soo….Tennessee..

Q: Who’s your favorite guitarist?
A: Eric Clapton. I don’t consider him the greatest of all time…but he’s hands down my favorite. His playing style is incredibly tasteful and he’s influenced my playing more than any other player.

Israel Beachy

Q: What’s your favorite Bible verse?
A: Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” NAS

Q: What’s your signature stage move?
A: 4 String Shoryuken with a power head bang finishing move

Q: What are your early influences?
A: Stavesacre, Five Iron Frenzy, Project 86, MxPx, Iron Glory

Q: What are your current influences?
A: Thrice, Deftones, Pedro the Lion, Arcade Fire, Social Distortion

Q: What equipment do you use?
A: Sans Amp pedal, Avalon U5 preamp, modified Fender Jazz bass, Fender American P-bass deluxe, Ernie Ball strings

Q: Resume:
A: Hazzah 1999-2001 (guitar/vox)
Staple 2001-2006 (bass/Halo dominator)
Flowerdagger 2007-2008 (bass)
Disciple 2008-present (bass/bgv/resident geek)

Q: What’s your favorite album?
A: “Truthless Heroes” by Project 86

Q: What’s your favorite song?
A: “Every New Day” by Five Iron Frenzy

Q: What’s your favorite book besides the Bible?
A: Watership Down by Richard Adams and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Non-fiction is CASH by Johnny Cash and Mere Christianity by CS Lewis.

Q: What’s your favorite movie?
A: Jurassic Park/the Rocketeer

Q: What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
A: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil.” Gandalf

Q: What’s the most frequently asked question you get?
A: Are you Jewish? no. Your’e vegetarian, can you eat chicken? no, though I’m technically an ovo-pescatarian. Did those lip-rings hurt? yes, both of them.

Q: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever autographed?
A: A pregnant belly.

Q: What is your favorite Disciple song?
A: ‘Worth it All’ or Kevins version of ‘I Will Always Love You’

Q: How did you join disciple?
A: Disciple took my old band Staple on tour on the Fundamentals of Rock tour and I became good friends with the guys. When Joey left the band Kevin called me to see if I’d be interested in playing bass. I was working at a corporate coffee shop at the time, so that wasn’t a hard decision.

Q: How long have you been in Disciple?
A: Since 01/01/08.

Q: How long have you been playing your instrument?
A: I started playing bass when I joined Staple so just under 10 years. I love bass and wouldn’t trade it for any instrument; Except accordion.

Q: Who is your favorite musical artist?
A: Five Iron Frenzy

Q: What musical training have you had?
A: One year of piano in middle school.

Q: Where are you from?
A: A galaxy far, far away. Columbus, OH.

Q: Who is your favorite bass player?
A: Murdoc from Gorillaz.

Trent Reiff

Q: What’s your favorite Bible verse?
A:“But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:16 NLT

Q: What’s your signature stage move?
A: Blast beats of mass destruction.

Q: What are your early influences?
A: Tourniquet, Bride, Guardian, East West, Pillar, and Gospel

Q: What are your current influences?
A: Dream Theater, Demon Hunter, Ion Dissonance, Maroon 5

Q: Who is your favorite drummer?
A: Mike Portnoy

Q: What equipment do you use?
A: Risen Drums, Promark sticks, Meinl Cymbals, DW hardware, Evans heads

Q: Resume:
A: Decyfer Down (fill in), Disciple 2010-present

Q: What’s your favorite album?
A: Blindside, Silence

Q: What’s your favorite song?
A: Demon Hunter’s “just breathe” off of World is a Thorn.

Q: What’s your favorite book besides the Bible?
A: Magic Eye

Q: What’s your favorite movie?
A: Boondock Saints

Q: What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
A: Don’t mess up.

Q: What’s the most frequently asked question you get?
A:How long have you been playing?

Q: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever autographed?
A: A 3rd thumb.

Q: What is your favorite Disciple song?
A: Shot Heard ‘Round the World

Q: How did you join disciple?
A: I tour managed and ran sound for 2 years, then moved to the hired drummer position for a couple of months, then joined the band shortly after that.

Q: How long have you been in Disciple?
A: Since May of 2010.

Q: How long have you been playing your instrument?
A: I think I got my first kit in 1992.

Q: Who is your favorite musical artist?
A: Liquid Tension Experiment

Q: Have you had any musical training?
A: Yes.

Q: Where are you from?
A: Glendale, AZ