My goal is to create interesting, fun, energetic music. To try to NOT sound like what has been done a million times!!
Let me know if I have succeeded!
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Today in Kentarzopeel 5214 people were flattened when rebels broke into a steam roller dealership and drove crazily throughout the city.
Reality Fulfillment!
My story starts with that "first guitar". As Randy Bachman said, "I was born standing up with a guitar in my hand"
Yes Mom screamed a lot during my birth, because the guitar was inside her SIDEWAYS. Ouch!
Anyway, we both survived.
Actually I was born into a motorcycling family; dad owned a motorcycle dealership and was the top Southwest cross country racer in 1964. Mom was a clothing designer and Maggie Eastwood (Clint's then wife) was her live 'mannequin'! Maggie and Clint were guest's at my parents 1957 wedding!
Enough about them!
I started my music addiction late in life... I was 20 when I heard Irene Cara's song "Fame" and that guitar solo burned into my brain and I had to learn guitar.
I switched to bass after a frustrating year of trying to fit my large hands/fingers on the agonizingly small guitar neck.
I started writing songs before I could play an instrument;
vocalizing music ideas into a tape recorder and writing lyrics to them.
Two years after I started on guitar, I moved from Alaska to Southern Cal and joined a pop rock band, called Split Image. We were an originals only band with the guitarist/singer doing all the writing, and I did all the calling, booking, organizing while holding down a full time day job as a sheet metal worker. We never did develop much of a following, but I got us signed to Allied Artists Records! Yay me! They never did do anything with us, but we had some good times. We played clubs like: Madame Wongs (two locations) in China town and Santa Monica. Club 88 in West LA. The Icehouse in Pasadena.
And that famous club in Azusa: Oskar's Cornhusker. Haven't heard of it? Haven't heard of Azusa? You aren't alone.
The era here is 1982 to 1986. On several occassions, we were playing on the same night as other up and coming LA area bands like Los Lobos and Quiet Riot. Not at the same club... just the same night. Like the time we played on the same night as the Rolling Stones... we were playing at Floyd's Dunk 'n Dine (swimming hole and burger joint) and they were at Madison Square Garden.
I was getting more and more frustrated because the guitarist would not collaborate. So In 1986 I left the band to travel to the Ardy-Nellipsy Mountains and study with Swami Berry Yogurt.
In 1993 I had relocated to the Sacramento, Cal area (I know, I know... WHY?) and entered the music world again.
I joined a band called Salamander doing what I guess you would call "alternative rock" ?? Who knows? music catagories are for accountants not us "arteeest's"
We made our own CD, played out as often as we could, still didn't have much of a following. We gave away hundreds of copies of our CD (no one was buying!)
I left the band (curiously) 10 years after I had left Split Image, in 1996 due to some of the same frustrations: not enough collaboration and our sound was too commercial. I wanted to do more unique, quirky stuff.
In 1997 all four band members received a BMI royalty check in the mail!
Somehow via a magical, unkown connection, our CD made it into the hands of a DJ somewhere who played a song on commercial radio. I proudly strode to my bank and presented the glistening, mighty $2.48 BMI check to the teller. It nearly emptied out her change drawer!
Since that time I have been focusing on song writing/ recording and I occasionally perform a one person show where I sing and play my songs on bass. Well, I have done some other things as well... I have eaten and gone to the bathroom a few times.
Also... I am a comedy writer and I have developed and produced a sitcom based on the heating and air conditioning trade called Derry Aire. It airs occasionally on my local cable access channel. I am also at work on the next episode of that.
Lastly, I like to say that I love long candle lit beach walks, puppy dogs, monster truck smash-o-rama's and I'd like to thank Gosh.