Biography

My first instrument was trumpet when I was seven years old, inspired to play what my Dad had played; at thirteen I started playing folk guitar like every other Dylan wanna-be, then studied classical guitar, and finally, electric guitar.

I played way pre-grunge punk with the seminal Seattle band The Shivers, then moved to San Francisco where I formed Social Fabric, another original rock band and in the early 80's joined the gothic band Fade to Black.

Shortly thereafter I played tenor saxophone for the "lounge band from the Kansas City of Hell", Bohemian Love Jones. The last full time band I performed with was the Lawn Vultures, San Francisco's favorite off the wall cover band in the late 80's.

I now live in Portland Oregon where I try to write as much music as I can in my basement studio, the Operating Room, and keep my chops up on all the instruments I play: guitar, sax, trumpet keyboards, sahna (Chinese oboe), and accordion. Oh yeah, I sing too.

One other project I hope to get off the ground is to put up a selection of the things I have been working on for the last twenty years, a sort of one-mans' history of music.