Since you clicked on the bio/contacts page, you must want to know something about me. Well, OK...
​
I started playing guitar when I was about 10 years old. I got talked into playing trumpet for a couple of years in elementary school, but after washing out in that, I went back to playing guitar. Early on, I was drawn to hair metal. A double bill of Ratt and Poison was one of the first rock shows I ever went to. I then read an interview with Steve Vai in some guitar mag that he went to Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. Despite my lack of musical roots, I decided I also wanted to go there. I started taking lessons at Stebal Music in Eastlake, Ohio. After a couple of years of practice and lessons and a great recommendation from my guitar instructor at Stebal (it sure wasn't due to my talent), I got into Berklee. I attended Berklee for two years and obtained a two-year certificate. I also gained the knowledge that I was never going to be the greatest guitarist in the world, but maybe I could find my voice if I combined my guitar playing abilities with my newfound love; songwriting.
After Berklee I was in a short lived Rush tribute band. I played guitar and did a poor imitation of Geddy Lee's vocals. Following that experience, Mark, the talented bass player in the band and fellow Berklee-ite, and I met up with another guitar player, Rich, and a drummer, Howard. Rich, Howard, Mark and I formed an all original band. After a couple of months, Mark got bored and quit the band. This left us without a bass player. I happened to have a bass, so I volunteered to be the bass player. The band in this formation would eventually be named Newspeak. Over the two or three years Newspeak was around, we played numerous, poorly attended shows throughout Northeast, Ohio. We also released a five song EP called Hindsight.
​
Sometime after releasing Hindsight, Rich needed a break from the band. Howard and I never could find a replacement, so Newspeak went on permanent hiatus.
​
Rich later caught the songwriting bug again. After writing an album's worth of songs, he call Howard and me and we recorded the Normal Wear and Tear album under the band name Tensile Stress.
​
Following the release of Normal Wear and Tear, Tensile Stress would release a second full length recording called Then Everything Changed. This album, like the ones before, were completely DIY. Rich and I split the songwriting, we all did the arranging, then we did the recording in Rich's basement and living room. After the release of Then Everything Changed, we played more poorly attended shows in support of our newest release. Howard would eventually leave the band, and Rich and I found a new drummer, but the end was near. After playing numerous shows throughout Ohio, and after entertaining tens of fans, Tensile Stress would end before the turn of the century.
The 2000's would find me working in the corporate world as an electronic technician. How this came about was after leaving Berklee, and while I was in Newspeak and Tensile Stress, I knew I would need a "real" job. So, instead of doing music full-time, I rationalized going back to school for electronics. The thought was that I could marry electronics with music. Maybe I could work in a music studio or at a music equipment manufacturer. So, in 1994 I graduated with an associates degree in electronics. While working as a technician around the year 2000, I met Sean, who was an amazing drummer as well as a fellow electronic technician. He was in a band that needed a bass player, so I joined him in his all original band. Sunday Afternoon would play a small number of shows and record some songs that would go unreleased.
​
In 2009 through 2010, I recorded an EP under my own name (sort of). April, a six song effort was released in November of 2010. April is made up of six original songs. I played all of the instruments and did the artwork for April. Keeping with the Tensile Stress mantra; DIY.
​
In 2012, I decided to start my own music, writing, and music lessons business; db music and words. At this time, I was also working on new material, which in 2014 through 2017 turned into my latest release, Calendar.