My first experience with music was a time before I remember. My mother told me that I used to sit and listen to “American Pie” by Don McLean! (Still my favorite all time song!) This will certainly date me but it was on double sided 45 that I would flip over and over again! I always had a taste for music and guitars especially, so when I was 8, I took guitar lessons at the YMCA. Unfortunately all they would teach us was, “On Top of Old Smokey” and stuff like than. Man, if they had taught me a power chord then, who knows where I would be today?!?!
Over the years I always dabbled in guitars, playing what people would teach me and what I would learn from magazines. Well, then came the Internet and all of the sudden, every song tablature, riff, lesson and technique were at my fingertips, so I dove in! Now, many years later I am an accomplished guitar & bass player.
As a bass player, I have been in several bands and dozens of side projects, most notably Flight 386 and Rythym Phocus, both based in Daytona Beach. I love the playing bass with a group! You can catch me laying down the nasty bass bombs with the house band at the Sandbar Grill on Wednesdays.
I have recently caught the Bluegrass bug and sit in every Thursday from 7p-10p at Pickin’ Splinters Jam at Woodwright Brewery in Dunedin. It is a fun, high energy show full of guitars, banjos, mandolins, fiddles and stand up bass. In addition, I play out regularly on the local open mic circuits.
Some other venues I have played at in the Tampa Bay area include Cage Brewery, deBine Brewery, Whistle Stop, Nolans Pub, Woodwright Brewery, Eddies and many more. I also have extensive studio experience while recording with Rythym Phocus.