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Peter Lloyd - Guitar / Vocals
Peter Lloyd, 21/06/64 Born in small town Ontario I spent my formative years huddled in a dark basement watching monster movies on WROC Channel 10 Rochester NY. This led naturally to huddling in dark basements rolling dice and talking in weird voices to guys named Tulkis and Mysterio. The search for higher learning etc., read heavy on the etc., took me to McMaster U. in glorious Hamilton, Ontario in 1983. There I encountered various freaks and geeks and turned his energies to cow-punk rock. Semi-luminous stints in Hammer bands such as Sinister Dude Ranch (1987, Monica joins in 1990), I Love My Shih-Tzu (1995, Chris joins in 1998) perfected the hacky guitar style experienced today in the hip new J-PoP/Retro-analog-ish band "Science Ninja BIG 10".
Gear-wise a number of amplifiers have drifted though the band room. "Vintage" is not always a good thing! Take a 1970 Traynor 25 watt Buzz-Crackler. How about a Flame-O-Matic 1978 HIWATT Maxwatt 100, it caught fire live on stage during a punk show. Used to have a 50 watt PEAVY 2X12 Chorus. It was pretty cool but weighed a ton. Right now it's a 1992, 50 watt Marshall 900 with 4X12 cab. Mmmm… Marshally goodness. It could use new tubes. I don't want to jinx myself but I've always had and used my first real guitar, a 1970/74/78 Telecaster-Franken-Disaster. Made from spare Fender parts, used, abused and three times rebuilt, it sounds great and stays in tune. I added a stock Gibson hum-bucker in the centre position which I use when the gain is too high for the single coil bridge pick-up, like in Tentacle Monsters. Somehow through all of this bands thing I met Mary Anne, my partner for life, and developed a habit of writing science fiction. Avatars: the Fugue, based on a short story from 1988, is my first full length (342 page) novel. It's a speculative fiction novel that crosses the line between horror and science fiction while drawing on some of the story telling styles used in anime. Fairly heavy-weight concepts, like the nature of God and life after death, are carried along in a fast paced, plot driven story with many characters and sub-plots. The main action of the story takes place in Hamilton, Ontario in the present day. As far as a synopsis goes, Avatars is pretty complicated, I'll make this very brief. It's a story about a girl and the boy next door. Their friendship turns to love as they discover that the world is not what they believed, survive the alignment of dark forces against them and confront ultimate evil in an apocalyptic end game. More detail than that is not going to help. But wait, it only gets more complicated! There are two more novels in the series! Ahriman and the Mind's Eye carry on through six hundred more pages of mayhem. This writing thing turns out to be addictive. These two books have a new slant to them because of a cheap sales ploy I used at CNAnime Expo in Toronto. I offered people the chance to have their names used on "Effigy" characters in the books. There was no guarantee that the effigy would in any way resemble the person, how could it? I didn't know these people from a hole in the ground. But their names, the sound and the keystrokes worked against my mind and they became more real, and more fun to write. I warned them that many characters bite the dust in my books but they were game. It's all faintly disturbing, I don't think I'll do it again, but it was very interesting. See for yourself at Towercircle.com.

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