My name is Jeff Lien. I grew up in the small town of Lake Mills, Iowa. From there I went to college in Mankato where I started my musical career. I first co- founded the band Entropy with drummer, Bill Reinbold, and enlisted my good friend Brian Kent on vocals. We did mostly covers with some originals.

After about a year and a half, Brian moves to Wisconsin to pursue his computer career. Shortly after the band defused, Bill and I teamed up with bass player, Paul Blazer and started 3 Down Low\ Glowstrand, an all original band. We were a power pop band. We played quite extensively around the area and in the Twin Cities. After about a year and a half and a family, I decided to quit and focus more on my family. I started a new job that later transferred me to Rochester.

From Rochester I hung low for about a year. But the bug to play out again was overwhelming, so I met up with Dave Wilson, Mark Eidem, and Nate Skerka, and started the band Q Faction. We played around the area for several months doing covers and some originals. The direction of this band wasn’t really what I wanted to do so I quit. Later I found out that Mark and Nate also felt the same way. I told the guys that I had a bunch of “heavier” songs that I had written, and that was the direction that I wanted to go. They liked the idea and we went with it. After a while though Nate decide to hang up the drum sticks and focus on his career. With Nate leaving, Mark and I didn’t really know what to do. I told him of a friend of mine played the drums. In walks Pat Whalen. We talk, jammed and it was done.

We all clicked very well. This was the birth of “Defuze”. We were an all original band that played heavier songs in the vein of Nickelback and Puddle of Mudd. We were gaining a huge following even though we never played out, thank God for myspace. The only thing we were missing was a singer. After several months and auditions we landed Kurt Vatland. This took off like a rollercoaster ride. But, like before, it ended. Kurt didn’t like this direction so he quit.

The three of us sat around for about 6 months trying out several different singers, but nobody seemed to really fit what we were looking for. During this period, I was asked to audition for the local cover band “Next To Nothing”. I got the gig and had been playing with them for the past two years. During this time I had been writing many songs too. Then late summer of 2008 I finally had to resign from the band cause of their heavy schedule, almost every weekend. I have a full family, wife and three kids, and it was time I slow things down a bit.

Almost immediately after I resigned from the band I ran into Jon Proushe. We talked about doing original music, and planned a time to get together so I could show him some of the ideas that I have. We met and things seemed to fall into place and here we are today, “Defuze”.