Troy D. grew up in the urban slums of South Auckland where he learned to grow up hard and fast. At a young age he found the reality escape in music. By the first year of his teens he had built up a very reasonable metal collection with the likes of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Motorhead spearheading the attack. It was in that same year that he picked up the six-string beast that would make him a slave.
After much time, torment, blood and sweat he formed his first band �Snowblind�. The band played at the usual teenage parties, drunken escapades and generally at any venue that would take them. Unfortunately a lot of in house fighting started and severe musical differences brought �Snowblind� to and end.
Troy D. hit the drawing board once again and the jigsaw puzzle came together with the forming of �Overdose�. The band became a well-known name on the music scene in Auckland, which was ripe and ready for the taking. �Overdose� started in similar fashion to �Snowblind� with one major exception being that they were fully an original heavy metal band. They quickly built a cult following that saw them change from playing backyard parties to moving onto the underground night club scene. There the band flourished like a black rose in full blossom going to bigger and better venues.
During the six year life of �Overdose� Troy had various side projects, with one having particular success. �Jagged Edge� was an up-tempo low down dirty cover band that made mincemeat out of the local pub scene. Troy D. flourished with both bands for some years becoming a much better guitar slave. By 1995 he decided that it was time to see the world, leaving both bands and flying across the tasmin, bumming around Queensland and the Northern Territory, along the way picking up former band mate and �Overdose� henchman Johnny before settling down. Troy and Johnny with slave fingers itching for action, clenched the resident club band slot with the help of S.A. drummer Rossie in the format of a three piece called �Totally Juiced & Rotten�. Playing Triple J covers and boozy blues it was fun all round until the time came to go there separate ways.
Troy D. wondered the land eventually ending up in Perth, where he lived a quiet life for a couple of years doing a few private recordings, before he felt the whip lash across his back, he is just a slave after all!
Late 2000 Troy teamed up with Al, Iain and Paul and helped form �ORION�. Though this band is at the outset of a long journey it breaths a quality that could see the slave become a master. |
