When Eric Mardis was a teenager, he dreamed the way most adolescent boys dream: “I totally wanted to be a rock star,” he said in a phone interview, “a cross between [Deep Purple’s] Ritchie Blackmore and [Metallica’s] Kirk Hammett. “
These days Mardis — who is now 33 — has a rock band and a jazz quartet, but his primary job is not at all what he imagined. He speaks of it almost as if he were at a 12-step meeting — somewhat shamefully: “I play banjo in a neo-whatever bluegrass band.”
That would be Split Lip Rayfield, a pickin’-and-grinnin’ outfit for people who like rock music.
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Perspective and the Past