BJ Walraven (guitar and vocals)

BJ's influences: Toad the Wet Sprocket, Jimi Hendrix, Jane's Addiction, John Mayer, Jimmy Eat World, REM, Midnight Oil, The Verve Pipe, The Pixies

BJ uses the following gear: Fender, Gibson, Epiphone, and Westone / Electra guitars, D'Addario strings, Dunlop picks, Digitech effects, and Fender amplifiers.

For recording, BJ uses Cakewalk Sonar 4 Producer and n-Track Studio multitrack recording software, KRK monitors, Mackie mixers, M-Audio Delta sound cards, Universal Audio UAD-1 effects and Hafler amplifiers, as well as a myriad of microphones.

Before View, BJ has been fortunate enough to play some great shows at venues such as:

The Michigan Theatre - Jackson, MI
The Blind Pig - Ann Arbor, MI
Mac's Bar - Lansing, MI
The Berkley Front - Berkley, MI
Cricket on the Hill - Denver, CO
Herman's Hideaway - Denver, CO

with some great bands:
Leading Green (Monroe, MI)
Right on Red (Denver, CO)
Driven by Steam (Canton, MI)
Lurch (Jackson, MI)
The Everyday Peephole / The Neverbeens (St. Johns, MI)
Sweet Pickles and the Good Time Jug Band (Horton, MI)

and some great people:
Jerry Weston - guitar (Sweet Pickles)
Shawn Wernette - bass, guitar, vocals (Sweet Pickles, the Everyday Peephole, Lurch)
Dennis Hughes - drums (Sweet Pickles, the Everyday Peephole)
Nathan Shafer - bass, piano, guitar, vocals (Sweet Pickles)
Serenity Delavan - bass, guitar, vocals (the Everyday Peephole, the Neverbeens, Driven by Steam)
Erik Weber - drums, vocals (the Neverbeens, Driven by Steam)
Patrick Regan - bass (the Neverbeens, Driven by Steam)
Coley Dennis - guitar (Lurch)
Jarrett Hoffman - drums (Lurch)
Brian Warner - trumpet (Lurch)
Josh Gallant - bass (Lurch)
Michael Connolly - bass (Driven by Steam)
Peter Higgins - guitar and vocals (Right on Red)
Chris Gartenmann - bass and vocals (Right on Red)
Brandon Lund - drums (Right on Red)
Tom Haynes - guitar and vocals (Leading Green)
Dustin Mullendore - drums (Leading Green)
Liam Donahue - bass (Leading Green)