Brayer, Patrick John: - Patrick John Brayer was raised on an egg ranch in the steelmill town of Fontana, California. Think Hell's Angels, think Sammy Hagar, think Shelton Brooks. Developing a unique style of writing early on as an answer to his inability to speak, he went on to receive an education in music from an array of dirt parking lot honky tonks that befriended a Valley Blvd. truck route. To his own surprise his writing has led to the winning of eight Gold, Platinum, and Grammy Award winning projects. To this day he admits that he likes to write prose best because "when doing that, while managing to be unsuccessful, people leave you alone". Humble but not one prone to self-deprecation he was once heard to say, "Hey, by hook and by crook, I'm better than I'm supposed to be."