Ashba Music

This site is dedicated to the music and talent's of DJ Ashba with his blessings. It is moderated and cared for by Enkelten Lumoama . DJ is known to check in from time to time so leave him some love.

For more information on DJ Ashba and his projects please go to the following links:

http://www.djashba.com

http://www.myspace.com/djashba

http://www.myspace.com/heroindiaries

http://www.10thst.com/

http://www.myspace.com/marionraven

BIOGRAPHY:

DJ Ashba was born in Monticello Indiana on the early Friday morning of November 10th. At age 1, The Ashba family moved to Fairbury Illinois, a small country farm town where he grew up. His father left him at age 3 leaving his mother to raise him. His mother is an amazing classical pianist, who started teaching DJ about music. He was instantly obsessed with it. DJ started playing piano at age 3 and played his first recital at age 5, where he performed Beethoven’s classical masterpiece “Ode to Joy.” At age 6 he began studying the drums. DJ would set up garbage cans, pots and pans, buckets, and whatever else he could find to resemble a drum kit. He would beat on them for months and months, hours on end. After finally getting a real set, he studied rhythm. At age 8, DJ worked detasseling corn in the fields for one year until he was able to buy his first electric guitar out of the Sears catalog. The Harmony white Flying V was priced at $89.00. As he rode on the bus to the corn fields each day, he sat with a friend he made, an older guitar player from a local band. DJ would take his pocket knife and carve a fret board on the seat in front of them. His buddy would take the knife, poke 3 holes, and say “That's an A chord,” go home and practice that tonight. Everyday DJ looked forward to going to work so he could learn a new chord. DJ grew up in a 8 bedroom house with no TV, due to his religious mother. He would sit in his room and practice his new guitar 17 hours a day. At age 16 DJ went to live with his father in Logansport, Indiana for a year, before moving back to Fairbury. For his 16th birthday his dad took him to his first concert: the Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls Tour. It was the night that changed his life forever. At age 19 DJ packed up all his things in his mini van and drove himself to Hollywood California, where he joined a band called Barracuda. He toured with the band for two years. He then released his first instrumental album "ASHBA: Addiction to the Friction,” and signed his first record deal. DJ went on to win 6 Best Guitar Player Awards. DJ Ashba co-founded the band Beautiful Creatures and landed a deal with Warner Brother Records. He wrote all the music for the Warner release, and songs such as “Ride” landed in the Warner Brothers major motion picture Rollerball. The song “Wasted” landed in the movie "Valentine." In addition, the song “1a.m.” landed in both the TV hit show Smallville and the Howard Stern show. The first concert Beautiful Creatures played was with Kiss on the farewell tour in front of 60,000 people. The band's numerous other tours include Ozzfest 2001, the Rolling Rock tour, a Japanese tour and dates with Marilyn Manson. Beautiful Creatures released the video for “Wasted” on MTV and a full concert for HBO Reverb. National TV hits include the band's appearance with Knoc-Tourn-Al on the Craig Kilborn Show. Two performance highlights that stand out were at the Sundance Film Festival and Mile High Stadium. DJ Ashba is endorsed by over 15 major music companies. He has toured the world, blowing away audiences with his out-of-control stage performances. DJ has appeared in Rolling Stone and numerous other world-wide ads and videos. These days, DJ Ashba has teamed up with Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx as songwriting partners. The two have opened an amazing, state of the art facility called Funny Farm Studios, were they have written and produced songs for multiple platinum recording artists. As the motto goes, Funny Farm is “Where Hits Are Made: A Nikki Sixx and DJ Ashba Creation." Look out for DJ and Nikki as they dive into the motion picture world as they begin to score films.