About

I can still remember the thrill of hearing "Jet" by Paul McCartney and Wings being played on the Bozo the Clown show as the camera panned across a picture I had drawn and sent in. Those were the humble beginnings of my love for music. "Wings Over America" became the first album I had to have. I scoured the ads in the local papers and asked my parents if we could go to a certain store that had it on sale for the cheapest price (it was a triple album and I didn't have a whole lot of allowance money saved up).

A few years later, I heard "I Want You To Want Me" by Cheap Trick and bought the single at KMart. I just about wore out the grooves on the 45. I fell in love with the flip side, "Clock Strikes Ten," too. Thus after saving a couple weeks allowance, I was back out to buy "Cheap Trick at Budokan." That album was what transformed me from someone who just loved listening to music to someone who wanted to participate in it. My first guitar followed that Christmas and lessons for a few months after that.

When I first saw Cheap Trick in concert and felt the floor shake as they tore into "Gonna Raise Hell," I turned to my dad and exclaimed, "I want to play bass!" It took a few years for me to get my first bass, but I must admit I love playing bass.

As the years have passed, I've got lots of guitars and basses, and written many songs along the way. I've played guitar with my local Campus Crusade for Christ group when I was in college and played guitar and bass in worship bands at churches I've attended.

It feels like I've always written songs and recorded on my own (initially bouncing back and forth between an 8 track tape recorder and my cassette deck through a cheap Radio Shack mixer) and continuing nowadays with GarageBand on my Mac. In 2023, I started putting stuff out on Spotify and the other streamers for others to enjoy too.