Chris grew up in a small blue-collar town in central New Jersey, the youngest of 3 children. So naturally, he did whatever his older brother and sister did, and musically, that meant listening to bands like KISS, Zeppelin, ACDC, the Doors, the Dead, and the Clash. He and his brother used to put on lip-sync concerts in their house with kids from around the corner: "We used to geek out to Destroyer and Zeppelin II—we stuck one of those old neon green fish-tank algae scrapers in the crack of our closet door, and that was our mic stand. Since I was the youngest though, I always had to be Peter Chris, and the only thing they’d let me sing lead on was “Beth”—I'd pout about it all the time. They got so fed up with me whining that they let me sing Love Gun once, and I remember thinking how cool I was! I was like 6 at the time, and I didn’t even know what the lyrics meant—I just knew it was pretty dirty. And of course, any time a curse popped up in any of the songs, we’d shout it at the top of our lungs…what a bunch of little sh*ts! But we had so much fun doing that stuff—we were true fanatics, and it really jump-started my love of rock and music in general."  

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