Once upon a time there was a band named Ten-O-One, but

The story doesn’t start their, it starts 10 years earlier with a

young boy's dream. That boy was “Brian Jeffery Ellison ".

By the time I had reached the stage in "1985” It was already

Quite the journey. You see back in the late 70's & early 80's

I roadied for a band called "TAXI”. Well can’t quite call it

roadieing, it was more or less free labor when they were in

Town and had a break from the road to rehearse (As Denny

would call it (Denny Melman; Drummer) .but anyway I was

always hanging around till eventually when I graduated H.S.

they gave me a job on the band "Road Crew".

I started out as the stage manager, winch was more or less

a you go get this, you go get that type of job. Any case I was

traveling with a real road band and getting paid. What a life.

The stage manager thing didn't last too long because the light-

man quit two weeks later and I moved up to running lights.

I say running lights, because I couldn't stand ladders so our

soundman hung the lights and I set up P.A. then we traded

jobs. He ran sound, I ran lights. We worked that way for 2-

1/2 years till finally after some happens of chance I ended up

in the Band with

Todd Shafer: Vocals, Guitar

Troye Kinnett: Piano, Vocals & Keys

Aaron Pierson: Drums

These were some of the funniest guys I ever got work with.

Along with our soundman "Tedd Carr" and our lightdude

"Jeff (Waldo) Allen, we had a blast. Kickin' ass everyplace we

played we were one of the baddest band in the nation for not

having a national album. (yes at that time they were still

recording on vinyl.) We were really close, we just didn't have the

right agency pushing us. We were trying none the less.

But we went our separate ways (that is in another story coming

in the future stay tuned) but I have finally released the C/D

we recorded, but never released due to circumstances beyond our

control. So if you’re interested go to:

http://www.ten-o-one.com/

Hope to see you there

Jeff Ellison