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Josh Caterer (born April 1972) is a Chicago-area musician and songwriter. With his brothers, Eli Caterer (born 1975) and Matt Caterer (b. 1968), he was a founding member in 1991 of The Smoking Popes, in which Josh plays lead guitar and sings. After his conversion to Christianity the Smoking Popes split up, and Caterer later founded Duvall. The Smoking Popes have since reformed. ==Early life== Caterer's father was a successful businessman and his mother, the salutatorian of her high-school class, was a homemaker. Both were of a spiritual bent, and they named their three children with shortened forms of the biblical names Joshua, Matthew and Elijah. Prior to the formation of the Smoking Popes, when he was a Senior in high school, Caterer formed Speedstick along with his brothers Eli and Matt. Caterer graduated in 1990 from Harry D. Jacobs High School in Algonquin, Illinois, a city neighboring his hometown, Lake in the Hills, Illinois, a far northwest suburb of Chicago. After graduation, Caterer held several menial jobs such as a job as a machine operator at a plastics company. Caterer wrote his first song around 11 years old. During junior high he joined his first band, ''Slavedriver.'' His early musical influences included Fugazi, The Smiths, Elvis Costello, Mel Tormé, and Frank Sinatra. As a senior in high school, Caterer formed ''Speedstick'' along with his brothers Eli and Matt. This band would become the forerunner to the Smoking Popes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Josh Caterer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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