Started playing: Piano - age 5; Drums - age 8; Bass - age 14; Guitar - age 20; Cello - recently.
Earliest influences: Beatles, Wings, ELP, Yes, Elton John, Led Zep, Asmith, Queen, Frank Zappa, KISS, lots of orchestral music, Mike DeMarco.
Recent Inluences: Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Queens of the Stone Age, King's X, Hookah Brown, Scarlet Fields, Claude Debussy, Johnny A, Miles Davis, John Mayer, Neal Morse, Imperial Drag, Muse, Dream Theater, Joe Bonnamassa
First gigging band: Arion, age 14
First gig: Maryland Federation for the Deaf - age 14.
Why bass: It's the perfect marriage between rhythm and harmony. Well, that and Gene Simmons...
Formal education: Private lessons, Peabody Preparatory, Berklee College of Music
Informal education: Numerous bars, clubs, basements, garages, bedrooms, churches, festivals, studios, records, tapes and CDs
Highest profile gigs: Vans Warped Tour 1999 - RFK Stadium, DC; Never Never - 1st Mariner Arena
Previously played with: Oblivion Sun, Rebel Amish Radio, Never Never, Wes McDonough, Battery Apple, Kirk's Money Brothas, Merge, Flavia Canel, Elise Major, Soulcage, Still Counting, Dixon Hall, Bill Dickson & MTT, Right Foot Red, Captain Underbelly, The Stephanie Wilde Project.
Fav venue to play: Ram's Head Live, Balto.
Fav venue to attend: Ram's Head, Annapolis
When not playing, can usually be found: Teaching, mountain biking, skateboarding, reading, sleeping.
First concert attended: KISS
Last concert attended: Zappa Plays Zappa
Bass Influences: JPJ, Billy Sheehan, Doug Pinnick, Claypool, Anthony Jackson, Stanley Clarke, Dee Murray, McCartney, Gene Simmons, Tom Peterson, John Wetton, Larry Graham, Jamerson.......all the usual suspects.
TV Credits: MTV's Punk'd, "Life On A Stick" theme (FOX), FOX ACC Basketball, ESPN, Six Feet Under, Cold Case and various HBO spots, various local jingles...I'm probably leaving out something here......
DVD/Film Credits: "Wings Of Hope" (live performance), "Cloud Nine" (Burt Reynolds) numerous movie trailers for Columbia/Tri-Star, Paramount and Sony Pictures, Point Pleasant DVD, Night Sounds film score.
