it's a DOG EAT DOGMA world

With his incandescent orange, close-cropped 'do and matching tufts of hair jutting out on either side of his chin, you half expect the 16-year-old to open his mouth and expose a set of sharpened incisors.

Add to that the fact that his room is straight out of a serial killer flick; Several full-sized mannequins in various stages of undress loll about the confined, dimly-lit space, eyes glazed. Atop a giant amplifier sits a large horned skull.
Crrrrreepy.

Staaf is a bright, enthusiastic, well-read and extremely humble kid that just happens to have a spectacular gift for the guitar.

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Gerod is working hard to pay his dues.

He knows it's going to be a tough go but says he's not expecting to find gold-lined streets or record execs begging him to sign on the dotted line.

Gerod is a professional full-time live/studio musician and instructor who can easily play and adapt to all styles of music.

He was born in Victoria B.C in 1984. He began his musical career at the ripe age of ten and had formed his first band by age eleven. Staaf's parents, Gerry and April, bought him a used Hohner electric guitar with a small Fender amp on his 11th birthday. He never looked back. By the age of fourteen Gerod had already composed and recorded his first full length C.D. with his band Throat.

Gerod had played numerous live performances by this time with his own bands and on other projects. In 1997 he was asked to play in Hawaii as a guest artist for Van Halen's opening act Sunburn, at Hawaii's largest rock venue. He also appeared for two weekends at Honolulu's premier blues club.

After a stint with B.B. King's bassist Russell Jackson in Calgary, he and his family moved to Vancouver B.C. where Gerod recorded classical guitar to be used in soundtracks for plays.

He played in both Whistler B.C. and Vancouver B.C., several times with Sudden Death recording artists Dog Eat Dogma, and just recently played with blues/classic rock band Syndicate on a four and a half month contract featuring several performances with blues/rock legend Gaye Delorme.

Throughout Gerod's dynamic career his talent, aesthetics, diversity, adaptability, stage presence and uniquely compatible disposition have made him well known locally, and in Victoria, Hawaii, Seattle and Calgary.