I was born in Los Angeles, California, got my first guitar at 10 years old and taught myself to play. My influences were the Beatles and Stones and the 60's rock bands, surf music, Motown and Chuck Berry. My playing was influenced by the British and San Francisco bands. I was later influenced by the Southern Blues/Rock players. I learned about blues through these bands. Played in party/wedding/garage/school dance type bands pretty much all through school doing whatever we liked (The hard rock of the day and token 50's and blues songs, Johnny B. Goode etc.)

Played the L.A. scene and often traveled to the S.F. area and did the clubs there. There were no other Rockabilly bands then. In Dec '77 we did the U.K. Rollin Rock Road Show with Mac Curtis performing all over England. Our band played shows with George Thorogood, John Prine, Elvis Costello, Blasters, Billy Burnette, Robert Gordon w/ Link Wray, Rockpile w/Dave Edmunds, etc.

Since the 80’s I have played in several different bands, some great and some not so hot. In 2000 I re-connected with Ray Campi. BlackCat Rockabilly is partially responsible for that. I hooked up with The BlackCat (Mr. Marijn Raaijmakers) while searching for Rockabilly lyrics on the web, specifically the song "Rockin' and Rollin' with Grandmaw" by Carson Robison. We got to know each other via emails back and forth. Marijn then started cleaning up old tapes I had of The Rockabilly Rebels and others, putting them on compact disc. The Rockabilly Rebels stuff turned out so good I had to send a copy to Ray. We started playing together again and still perform and record together to this day. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.