Anthony McPhail

Instrument: guitar, lead vocals, kazoo, tambourine

Other instruments: Bass, pretend keyboard sounds, I'm trying to learn harmonica

Age: 17

Birthday: August 8, 1983

School: Westside High School (Senior!!!!!)

Hobbies/Other Interests: Drinking Glenn Floyd’s café mochas, writing songs, hanging out at "The Vine", praising God

Most uplifting moment w/ Grand Café: when all the people got saved at the concert at Riverside UMC w/ Mordecai’s Courage and Pops Garage (Sept. 25, 1999), and the Macon UMC Youth Retreat (September 8-10, 2000)

Favorite Grand Café songs: Make Me Drunk, Radio Drive, Who’s Gonna Hold Your Soul, Sense of Understanding, I Cry Out, Hooked on a Feelin'

Favorite songs by other bands: Anybody Out There (Burlap to Cashmere), Let That Be Enough (Switchfoot), Open House (Plankeye), A Day In the Life of Tommy (Mordecai’s Courage), Open Up Your Heart (Stalemate), Collide (Fono)

Favorite praise songs: Refuge In You, In the Secret, I Will Not Forget You, You are in Control, Set Me On Fire, Make a Joyful Noise (I Will Not Be Silent), Come Fall on Us, We Are Hungry, Lord I Give You My Heart, Make Your Home in Me

Favorite bands: Switchfoot, Plankeye, Burlap to Cashmere, Mordecai’s Courage, Stalemate, The Passion Band, 100 Portraits, Fono, The praise band from Hungry

Biggest musical influences: John Phillidipidis (Burlap to Cashmere), Jon Foreman (Switchfoot), Kevin Mann

Equipment: Line 6 Flextone 300W Head w/ Johnson Millenium 2 X 12 Cab (w/ two 12" Celestions), Squire Pro Tone Strat, Takamine EG-332-C, Ross' Taylor Acoustic, Ross' Acoustisonics Amp, Crybaby Wah, Danelectro Cool Cat, Boss TU-2 Tuner

Equipment would like to have: PRS Custom 22 w/ dragon inlays (emerald green), Gibson Les Paul Custom (alpine white), Epiphone Casino, Taylor Acoustic, Chet Atkins CEC Standard

Favorite Movie: The Outsiders, Field of Dreams

Marital Status: extremely single (need someone...anybody??? applicants send info here)

Favorite color skittle: orange

Children: none to date

Favorite Article of Clothing: My orange under shirts, and my History Channel Hat

Favorite player in the 1973 World Series: Sal Bando

Favorite Ernest movie: Ernest Saves Christmas

Favorite book: The Outsiders(S. E. Hinton), Grover Goes to School (Who Cares?)

Testimony:
I’m the traditional story of bad little dude turned good little dude, but it’s still worth telling. I grew up in a Christian home with a mother who tried to show me Gods love as much as possible. Because of this I just always assumed I was a Christian. Despite that though I got involved with the bad crowd as soon as I hit junior high. I became a little druggie, and slowly, but surely God became one of the least important things in my life. However, on August 13, 1997 at a youth rally at my church I accepted Christ for the first time really. I then went home and had a little CD smashing ceremony, and decided I would completely turn around my life. Since then I have strived to live a Christian life, and be a witness for God to all who may see me. It hasn’t been easy and never will be, but I love God more than anything, and nothing is going to take me away from him.