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  Birth Name Christopher van Malmsteen
  Origin Wichita County , Texas , USA
  Genre Pop Punk
  Occupation Musician ,
  Years Active 1994 - present
  Instrument Guitar
  Label Jive
  Associated Acts Bowling For Soup
  URL Official site


Chris Burney ( a.k.a Christopher van Malmsteen, born May 25, 1969 in Wichita County, Texas ) is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the pop punk band Bowling For Soup . He graduated from Midwestern State University, in 1993.


BACKGROUND

Christopher van Malmsteen was born in Garnett Kansas. He graduated in 1993 in Physical Education from the Midwestern State University. In 1994, together with Jaret Reddick , Erik Chandler and Lance Morril, he formed the Pop Punk band, Bowling for Soup. He plays a Les Paul guitar. He also has a two year old French Bulldog named Sherman Mabobber Burney. Chris is quite proud of his extensive DVD collection, and is a guns and ammo enthusiast, as well as golfing. Some of Burney's favorite programs include Rescue Me , Lost , The Shield , HBO 's Band Of Brothers , Robot Chicken , Family Guy , and King Of The Hill .When Chris is not on the road, he enjoys a rousing game of Golden Tee , coupled with double Jack Daniels and diet Coke, tall. Chris has extensive tattoo work done, most notably a tattoo sleeve on his left arm which features various cereal mascots ( Tony The Tiger , Toucan Sam , etc). The text "cereal killer" appears on the arm. Chris is missing a front tooth and has a replacement prosthetic in it's place. On August 9th 2007 the band decided to name the fake tooth "Byron" during a Rye, Ny concert.

His nickname van Malmsteen comes from the swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen.


DISCOGRAPHY


Bowling For Soup



EXTERNAL LINKS

Bowling for Soup Official Site