hey! whats up. well, you clicked this link, so you must want to know about me! first off, my name is alec mankins, and i reside in Pismo BEach, California of hte U.S.A. alright, well, i started playing guitar when i was about 7 years old. i have had 3 lessons in my life time, and have picked te instrument up by my self. i have lived in many towns, including herem of course, L.A., sacramento, Gridley, Chico, Brookings (OR), Visalia, Brentwood, and follsum. all of which are california except brookings. ok, i also play other instruments, including piano, bass guitar, sing, banjo, and recently drums, but i still kinda suck at them :P. haha. anyway, i moved to pismo beach in septemember, and broke my arm the day before school at 5:30 P.M. yea. that kinda sucke. so, i spent the first 2 months of school in a cast. i broke my arm riding my long board, downhill. ( i will get into what sports i play later ) it was a hobbie i have been into for at least 3 years, and have broken 2 bones in the process. one was my arm, which i already partially explained, and my leg. i broke my leg doing about 49 down a hill, and i got caught up in a turn, and had no way out, so i bailed off the board. i landed on my right leg, and it got a compound fracture. ouch. my arm i broke doing abiout 35, and i had a car on left side of me, and a curb on the right. i had NOWHERE to go. there was a toy trailer ( 5th wheel ) comming up ahead, andi had no choice but to hit it. i ahsd ab out 5 seconds to decide how i was gonna hit it, which wasnt much. i decided that if i just ran into it, my legs would go underneath it on the board, and snap them, so that wasnt really an option. if i jumped however, i would hit it off the board, and would be able to hit it coverd. so, i tucked my head and my arms, and hit the trailer. my head slammed against my arm, and down i went. i got knocked out for about 5 minutes, because my brain slammed against the inside of my skull, upon hitting my arm into the trailer. it broke my arm, and i got a concussion. once i woke up, i made my way back up the hill, up to my house. we went to the hospital, and i was informed about the extent of my injury. NOW, if you dont like grim images in your head, do not read on, i will be getting VERY graphic. ok. the gnarly thing comes next. so, i had a cast on for the first4 weeks. once they took it off, my arm was crooked. it was black and blue, and off set to the right. haha. ew. so, they had to re-break my arm. the doctor layed me on the table, and put his right hand on my sore ,crooked arm. all of a sudden, i felt a HUGE jolt of pain through my arm, followed by blackness. i woke up in my bed the next morning.....
but lets move on to the music side. I stopped music for about 2 years and decided to jack myself up. (as seen above) but i figured that music was my calling. i started playing like crazy and teaching myself, and just flat excelled. i started making CD's like crazy, and almost got signed by "WarnerBros." in 2007.
Now i have chilled down with that. decided to "lay low" with the whole "cooperate" side of music. now i just play for fun and make occasional CD's for my friends. its working so far.. and i think that i will go far :)
