DJ Skeet Skeet was born in Los Angeles but moved to Iowa when he was 2.
While growing up in the Corn Belt, Skeet Skeet (whose family knows him as Trevor McFedries) found solace in sports and music before relocating to Los Angeles in his teens.
"I played football in high school," said Skeet Skeet during a phone call from his mother's home in Los Angeles. "I was on the road to play football in college. And I was finding friends who were into music that wasn't really what you would call Midwest music."
That music was hardcore bands as NOFX and such.
"There was a pocket of creativity in Iowa, and I had friends who were not the ones who fit in," said Skeet Skeet with a laugh.
During his high school years, his sister, who was also in sports, got a scholarship at Pepperdine University. So he moved back to California with his mother and sister.
"I was supposed to go to a private school then," said Skeet Skeet. "And while I was scouting out the school, I checked out Beverly Hills High School."
Skeet Skeet watched the BHH football team practice and met the coach. "He asked me if I was part of the team. But I told him that I was already going to be attending the other school.
"The coach looked at me and said, 'Our next game is in Hawaii,'" said Skeet Skeet. "And after thinking it over, my immature mind was made up. I was going to attend Beverly Hills High.
"But I had no idea what it was all about. I thought it would be like '90210' on TV, but I was wrong. It was very diverse, and there were a lot of influences on me."
Those influences included music, art and culture, he said. "When I lived in Iowa, there wasn't the diversity I experienced in California. I mean, for example, there are not a lot of Jewish people in Iowa, but in Beverly Hills, it's something like 80 percent Jewish."
After high school, Skeet Skeet got a football scholarship at San Jose State, but after two terms, he lost his scholarship and moved back with his mother.
"I spent a lot of times partaking and wasting my life in the L.A. party scene," he said. "Thanks to my musical tastes I had a bunch of albums, and one night I was at a party and saw someone on the turntables. I immediately though, 'I can do that,' and it all began for me."
Skeet Skeet has, since 2006 built a name for himself in the night-club/DJ circles. He has recently remixed songs for Katy Perry, Fergie, Boys Like Girls and became the first DJ to play the entire Vans Warped Tour.
He is currently in the line-up for the Shwayze project, who is, of course the subject of the MTV reality series "Buzzin'."
"When Shwayze asked me to join them, I had been doing nightclubs for so long that I was bored," said Skeet Skeet. "And it was nice to go on tour and do what I do with these guys.
"But after playing 200 shows for the same amounts of nights, I'm looking forward to taking a break," he said. "During this tour, we're working it out that I can open the show with my DJ act and then join the rest of Shwayze (rapper Aaron "Shwayze" Smith and Cisco Adler) for the headlining set."
Eventually Skeet Skeet would like to spend time producing other artists, but now, he has a commitment to Shwayze and Cisco. And he means to live up to it.
If you go ...
What: Shwayze, DJ Skeet Skeet
Where: Murray Theatre, 4916 S. State St.
When: Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
How much: $13
Phone: 467-8499, 800-888-8499
Web: www.smithstix.com
E-mail: scott@desnews.com