About Me

I was born in Phoenix, Arizona in July of 1960.
I'm on the cusp of Cancer & Leo. I come from a long line of Leos, so I've always been the oddball.
I have 3 sisters and 3 brothers. Ike was President.
We moved around Arizona & California a lot. Some of my earliest memories are being on the road with the rodeo.
I never attend the same school until the 5th grade.
In 1970, my mother took us to Shrewsbury Township, New Jersey where her family lived.
I spent the next 8 years there. I started singing & doing school plays at Monmouth Regional.
"Night Of The Living Dead" scared the shit out of me when I was 12. I was lucky enough to thank George A. Romero for that pleasure many years later.
I am a rabid Monty Python & Star Trek fan...unless it's that DS9 crap.
When I was 17, I came back to California and joined the U. S. Marine Corps.
I was a great shot, and I really enjoyed the experience. It taught me a lot.
After my discharge, I went to work fixing pinball machines in Riverside, California.
I felt that I was never going to be happy unless I was performing.
I began a serious study of music and playing the guitar.
I really got into "Rocky Horror" at this time for the chance to perform in front an audience.
I was part of "Erotic Nightmares", a performance group that started in Riverside and started working the SoCal curcuit until we eventually wound up at the Tiffany Theater in Hollywood.
I lost my virginity during a performance of "Rocky Horror".
I had always loved punk rock since I first heard the Sex Pistols in 1977.
Los Angeles had a very big punk scene at the time, and as you already know,,,it was a really exciting, creative time.
I saw a lot of bands and musicians play. I played a lot, too.
No one had greater impact more than X. Billy Zoom is greatest guitarist on the face of the earth.
Black Flag played in my back yard., followed by Minutemen in the living room.
I took guitar lessons from Steve Vai and the legendary Al Casey.
Phoenix is one of my favorite places, but I don't get a chance to visit much anymore.
I had worked at the Plaza Club, where I got see Gerald R. Ford.
I returned to Hollywood in order to attend Musician's Institute of Technology.
It wa there that i met John Baltic, Yves Hausermann, and Marc Jeanreaud. We called ourselves Honchowonko.
We would rehearse sometimes up to 6 hours a day, every day. We had a lot of fun.
We played around Hollywood at places like the Cathay De Grande, Club 88, The Anti-Club and the Music Machine.
One time we played on Skid Row inside a 30-foot cardboard box. We played in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
I went back to Phoenix in 1987 after I went insane.
My house in Phoenix got burned down by a tweaker on July 4, 1989, so I moved back to Hollywood to meet my fate.
I wound up at the notorious Hollywood Billiards @ Hollywood & Western, whereI converted an abandoned men's room into my studio.It was pretty cool. A lot of girls came over to party with me and have sex, which was always fun.
I was having a great time until the Northridge earthquake nearly destroyed the building.
I stayed there for 5 months until I was able to get it together and move into another place.

And Here I Am Now...
I work for Warner Bros., and I still get to do film & TV from time to time.
I get to meet all kinds of people.