Learning on instruments supplied by his friend's five-finger discount stash, singer, songwriter and guitarist Shawn Smash has been the driving force behind seminal neu-punk outfit Total Chaos since the band's start in Pomona, California in 1989. Having played most styles in the rock cannon, Shawn can effortlessly slip between hardcore and power pop with a flick of his Crate footswitch. He indulges his passion for different sounds by starting bands with incredibly cool punk names, and rocks them till it's all out of his system for a while.

Smash rocks Crate because after touring the US 15+ times, Europe five times and three laps around Japan, he knows they can take the knocks of punk band life and keep delivering the focused, searing tones he needs to give all poseurs the finger through his music.

View the artist's website: www.myspace.com/totalchaos