Tomo Milicevic
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Tomo Milicevic
Tomislav "Tomo" Miličevićis an American musician and record producer best known as the lead guitarist of rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. Born in Sarajevo but raised in the United States, Miličević moved to Troy, Michigan in the early 1980s, where he became active in the local heavy metal scene and played in a number of bands, co-founding Morphic. In 2003, he joined Thirty Seconds to Mars, with whom he achieved worldwide recognition in the mid-2000s after recording the band's...
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth3 September 1979
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He really wanted to buy an electric guitar. But they're expensive, so he said, 'Hey, let's make one.' We went and bought all of these tools and books, and the next thing you know, we're building an electric guitar. Fifteen hundred dollars later ? twice the cost of any good electric ? we had it.
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For Jared, making music is very personal and cerebral so for him to open up and share the experience is difficult.
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You can't really help touching the person next to you. No matter how much of a germ freak you are, you're exchanging liquids with people.
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But we were terrified to play those songs live. We're a real balls-to-the-wall, rip-your-face-off kind of band, and for us to slow it down, there's a natural reaction to wonder 'What if nobody wants to hear those songs?' What if we start playing those songs and our fans are freaking out?
band challenges
Truthfully, every band has their different challenges. I think we have ours, and that would be one of them. But I would take our challenges over other bands' challenges.
left mess
We're here to mop up the mess that was left behind.