Bio
Max Mueller hails from Baltimore, Maryland, where he was born July 11, and started playing guitar at age 6.
His earliest influences were the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Buddy Holly, and later included AC/DC, Judas Priest, and Deep Purple.
At 16, Max joined his first band, Legacy (later Burst of Silence); they played U2 covers and were a local favorite. He then joined Andy Bopp(Myracle Brah)’s band New Alliance as lead guitarist. New Alliance became the critically-acclaimed power-pop quartet Love Nut, whose songs the Baltimore City Paper praised as “infus[ed] . . . with the timeless ingredients of rock ‘n’ roll–sweet melodies, guitars, lush harmonies, guitars, a strong backbeat, and guitars.” They released their first album, Bastards of Melody, in 1995 on Interscope Records. It featured the top-5 CMJ single “She Won’t Do Me,” which was picked up for heavy rotation by 99.1 WHFS. Their second album, Baltimucho, was produced by Ed Stasium (The Ramones, Talking Heads, Living Colour) and released on Big Deal in 1998. Baltimucho included Max’s song “Essex Hair,” hailed by Ink19 as “a Cheap Trick song for the late 1990s . . . loaded with great harmonies, mixed with guitar sled-rides.” Max’s first solo track “Right Time” appeared on the 1997 RPM Records compilation Fuzzy Logic.
After 22 tours of the US, 3 of the UK, and 2 albums, Love Nut disbanded in 1999. Two weeks later, he formed a new band, Screech. They recorded the unreleased Music for Cooking with Gas (2000), and Max moved to Norway in an attempt to save his marriage.
After it crashed and burned, he returned to the States with $5, a Strat, and nowhere to live. He recovered nicely and is now living in Los Angeles. Max is in the finishing stages of mixing his newest record, “The Ballad Of You And Me” with drummer Nick Bertling, bassist Jay Turner, and engineer Ronni Santmyer.
