Biography

Tyler was born in Reno, Nevada on a rainy morning in July, 1983. When he was little, he sat on the soft carpet of his living room and watched his dad play sitar for hours. On his 12th birthday, his dad bought him a chintzy 3/4-size acoustic guitar, which his mom described as "cute." Hours later, Tyler was on his way to writing songs for the band he might one day have, pushing as hard as he could against a giant domino blocking his view of the future. In exactly one year, his dad bought him his first electric guitar. Ecstatic, Tyler found the biggest amp he could plug into and made any ears in the vicinity bleed from tunes such as Secret Agent Man and Smells Like Teen Spirit. With the guitar came lessons, which Tyler would take until he left for college five years later. His dad taught him how to play the sitar, and it coincidentally influenced his guitar playing and view of music as a whole. When he was a junior in high school, Tyler, with guitar in-hand, met Lucas Carbajal. Lucas asked Tyler to join his band, and the dominoes crashed towards Illicit.

Illicit played many shows and released two CDs during it's short-but-hard existence, pushing hard on the dominoes blocking its view.. However, once high school ended and everyone moved away to college, a final, mighty domino crashed down on the band as its trite-but-sorrowful ending.

Tyler then went to UC Santa Cruz to study Computer Science. He played in many transient bands, including The Irie Pirates, K-Hole (with Dusty Heaton, Illicit's frontman), and Complete Lack of Surprise. When he was a freshman, he wrote a rock opera called Orpais and recorded an excerpt of it. Little did he know, the domino labeled Odbol was ominously waiting in his path.

Now a senior, Tyler is riding that domino as it falls. Thanks to his current job, he was finally able to buy the equipment necessary for a home recording studio. After all summer in the studio, Odbol has emerged as the result of those efforts.

Tyler does not know where the giant dominoes will end, but he's trying his hardest to keep shoving them down.