Reckless Faith Bio's

Perry Schober is an established veteran musician, songwriter and producer from Chicago. His Flying V guitar is his weapon of choice but also dabbles on the keyboards and background vocals.
At age ten Perry pursued his lifelong passion of becoming a guitarist. He honored the great guitar gods of Jimi Hendrix, Tony Iommi, Carlos Santana and Alvin Lee. Determined to make the big time, at age 18 Perry formed his first accomplished band, Hyflyer.

The mid 70's Hyflyer played a major role in the Chicago music scene.  Night after night of constant gigging and living the rock n' roll lifestyle took a toll on the band. By the early 1980's  Hyflyer disbanded and soon afterwards Euphoria was searching for a lead guitar player and Perry joined. Euphoria recorded an album "The Answer" in 1982 and had a great following playing all the major venues in Chicago. 1984 Perry left Euphoria to join the heavy metal band Mad Hatter that featured fellow guitarist Marc Martin.

Some of Perry's previous bands were Assassin, Prime Evil and most recent Suicide Shift which put out a self titled album in 2006 with current members and co-producer Marc Martin and Rick Zangora. Ted McKenna former drummer with The Michael Schenker Group and Rory Gallagher recorded his drum tracks to 4 of the 10 songs on The Suicide Shift album in Glasgow, Scotland.

J.J. Jaquith started his life long love to perform music as a child singing solos at a small church that preached Hell, fire and brimstone.  The feel of the Southern Gospel songs led to an interest in Blues and Jazz.  By the time he was a teenager J.J. was playing trumpet with various combos on stage and in the studio.

As time went on, the Combos evolved into Rock with a focus on bands such as Chicago, Ides of March, Blood Sweat & Tears, and Mitch Ryder.  It was in this time frame he established a friendship with Instructor, producer, singer/songwriter Larry Rossi, a man that shaped J.J.’s relationship with music dramatically.

The Chicago land area saw a shift in the music scene in the late 80’s.  So instead of moving to Boston, the city his family called home some 365 years before, he pledged his patriotism to the Windy City.  In 1988 he turned down a scholarship to Berkeley College of Music and left the combo’s and horn behind.

It was at this time he started and joined local bands most notably Jaded.  Jaded had moderate success in the local club and university circuit, but it was at this time he established a friendship with Sean Patrick McGraw. The duo’s destiny to break through was only eclipsed by their self proclaimed anti-success attitude. In 1994 Jaded split and McGraw went into Contemporary Christian Rock, and J.J. started several groups looking for that “just right” sound. Some of these were Tangerine Station, Joey Flash and the Playboys, and No Exit.

Marc Martin; After hearing Deep Purple's Made in Japan as a teenager, Marc knew he  wanted to play guitar.  Marc played in a series of bands throughout  high school college and even law school.  Marc and Perry played 
together in MadHatter in the early 1980s.  Unfortunately, in the late  1980s and through the 1990s, Marc took a hiatus from playing to  pursue his legal career.  After the birth of his daughter in 2000,  Marc decided he wanted to pick up the axe again.  He has been playing 
and recording seriously over the past five years.  Marc was always the guy in the band with the casette four track. With the advance of digital recording came the ability to put together professional recording setups for a fraction of the cost in the 1970s and 1980s.  Perry and Marc  reunited at a get together and Marc persuaded him to get into Pro  Tools.  Perry did and the result has been recording projects for Suicide  Shift, HyFlyer and now Reckless Faith. When not working on such projects Marc can be found toiling at Lost Time Studios working on some solo works, http://web.mac.com/mwm711. Reckless Faith is a favorite of Marc's  because of the talent of  the other band members and the diversity of  the songs.

Rick Zangora