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Lake Baum

Lake Baum began playing playing guitar at age 11 when he received his first Fender Stratocaster. He studied classical guitar at the Dana School of Music. Lake has worked as studio musician and producer at Kontinuos Jams Studios. He has been a musician (on guitar, banjo, bass and keyboards) and musical director for numerous professional musical theater productions. Lake is currently the resident guitarist with Easy Street productions as well as often performing in the orchestra at the Youngstown Playhouse. In addition, Lake teaches privately and has composed music for several new dramatic theater productions.

Lake has been a member of Fat Angus (AC/DC tribute), Radio Lark, Generation Rock and ThreeWill (Rush tribute).

Lake has performed with Tiffany, Sarah Turner, Bill Bodine, Michael J Moritz Jr. and has opened for Kansas, Maureen McGovern and Abbey Road.

Lake's Gear

Guitars

Fender Custom Shop Telecaster Limited Edition Terry Kath
Fender American Standard Telecaster modified with a PAF Humbucker in the neck position, a 4 way selector that allows for both pickups to operate in series and parallel and push/pull pot to switch the neck pickup from humbucker to single coil

Amplifiers

1968 Fender Bandmaster Head (Drip-Edge) modified with a master volume and using vintage tubes
Custom 2 x 12 Cabinet with one Celestion Vintage 30 and one 1968 vintage Utah speaker

Effects

Dunlop Crybaby 535Q wah-wah
Ibanez TS-808DX
Xotic EP Booster
Digitech Mosaic
TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2 Mini
Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
Boss TU-3 (tuner)

Lake's Musical Influences

Favorite Chicago songs: "In the Country" and "Make Me Smile"

Favorite Chicago album: Chicago (1970) [a.k.a. Chicago II]

Favorite member of Chicago: Terry Kath

Top 10 artists or bands (other than Chicago):

Rush
AC/DC
Led Zeppelin
The Who
The Beatles
Ted Nugent
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Ray Charles
Prince
The Eagles