He plays drums in the band Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers, and their debut album Incongruent peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Comedy Albums chart. His releases have featured instrumentalists such as Jeff Loomis, Rabea Massaad, Ola Englund, and Pete Cottrell. While most are self-released, his EP Anchor and LP The Scene is Dead are sold through DFTBA Records. Scallon has released several solo albums. His videos have featured collaborations with Andrew Huang, Boyinaband, Davie504, Jared Dines, Leo Moracchioli, Mary Spender, and Sarah Longfield. Most notable are his renditions of songs on banjo, including " Raining Blood" by Slayer, " Master of Puppets" by Metallica, and " Psychosocial" by Slipknot, the latter featuring a cameo appearance by Corey Taylor. His popularity launched as he began to cover metal songs with folk and country instruments. Scallon began uploading to YouTube in February 2007, and began to develop a following in 2008. Īs a teenager, Scallon played drums in a metal band called Gas Mask Catalogue. He used it to write his first solo songs, and it was featured on many of his early videos. He was gifted his first guitar, a nylon-string classical, from his friend's father. As a child, he and his friends would visit their local Guitar Center and play instruments, although would never actually buy any due to lack of money. Scallon was born on August 26, 1990, and was raised in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
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