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Craig's foray into the music world begain in 1989, while attending college at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He started performing as a solo artist playing cover tunes almost exclusively. With a rapidly growing following, he decided to pick up his guitar and tour the acoustic music scene traveling throughout the front range, mountain towns, and a couple of trips to te Virgin Islands. "Coming out of college, I just couldn't think of a better job than playing music, meeting pepole, and traveling," says Maierhofer. "Having been in school the previous seventeen years of my life, I relished the opportunity to work according to my own schedule, which sometimes meant waking up at noon and playing music until two in the morning." Playing covers was a great was to hone the voice and guitar work, but it didn't do much for his songwriting skills. Through mutual friends, he hooked up with Dennis Grosvenor, a songwriter who had recently moved to the area from L.A. "From the fist time we got together to work up a couple of him tunes, the chemistry was obvious, and our voices blended together perfectly." Tgeother, they formed the progressive alt-rock group Orphan Tears.
While the group had a great amount of critical success locally, and were fortunate enough to land a demo deal with Capital Records in L.A., they never hit it big outside of the local scene. "We were somehwat tied to the local gigs due to the day job responsibilities of some of the band members. We recieved wonderful press write-ups for the local shows, but never got a chance to expose other markets to the music," says Maierhofer. The band split up shortly after the release of their first full length album, Novocain Kiss, which was recorded in L.A. and at Kerr-Macy Studios locally. Maierhofer, realizing the bills needed to be paid, chose to pursue a business career outside the music world. Suddenly, with the shackles and pressures of trying to make it in the music industry removed, Maierhofer's songwriting took off creatively. "It was really cathartic in that the door just seemed to swing open, and I felt free to explore whatever I wanted without feeling any insecurity that it might not be accepted by the listener." He formed and fronted a couple bands over the next few years (Three Hour Tour, Surrender Dorothy), while continuing to develop his writing abilities.
More recently his musical aspirations have been focused on exploring and creating songs in the more traditional singer/songwriter vein, and the melodies and hooks have become more and more mature with each one of his songs. His efforts proved worthwhile last year when the Boulder Daily Camera readers named him runne-up to Big Head Todd and the Monsters in the "Best Local Musician or Group" category in the Reader's Choice Awards. Which brings up to the present. |
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