Computers during the day, guitars at night.

People around Innovation Hall, the Fine Arts Building, and random rooms around campus might know him as "Chuck Blatchford, the IT/computer dude guy." His bandmates, various bar managers, and random listeners throughout the area might know him as "Chuck Blatchford, the guitar playing dude guy."

For the past year and a semester Blatchford has been working in the Devision of Instrictional Technology as a classroom technician for the "smart classrooms"--or as they are more commonly known amongst the students "the classrooms with computers."

In his spare time Blatchford plays the guitar for a band called "Triod," a triod is the three pronged electrical plug in. Aside from his band, Blatchford also travels to his friend's house to have jam sessions.

Blatchford first picked up a guitar when he was in sixth grade, however, he broke a string almost immediately and put the guitar down until he was 19 years old. According to Blatchford, he was hanging out with a friend of his when his friend started playing Neil Young's hit "The Needle and the Damage Done."

Young has always been a great inspiration on Blatchford because of the diversity of his music. "He doesn't get stuck on one type of music," says Blatchford. He furthered his statement by adding that Young plays both acoustic and electric guitars.

Additionally, Blatchford mentioned two CDs of Young's that caused great controversy and a law suit. In 1983 Young released a short 25 minute rockabilly album, Everybody's Rockin', and in 1985 he released a country album Old Ways. In 1986, Geffen sued Young for "purposefully releasing unmarketable music," says Blatchford.

Back to Blatchford: After serving time in Germany during the 1970s, Blatchford and a coworker started recording music in 1989. Though Blatchford says that it was more of an excuse to hang out than to play music. After a year of being a band, the drummer (his coworker) and he left the band.

Shortly after a guitarist of a band become sick, so Blatchford began recording with the drummer, which eventually led to "That Damn Dog." That Damn Dog remained a band for some years, playing at various places throughout the area--notable at Jaxx.

Until recently when the band broke up do to creative complications within the band. As for now, Blatchford is still making music and jamming out as often as he can.