I live in Oakland, California.

I’m currently engaged in writing a memoir as it relates to my 40 years of touring worldwide in underground bands.

Bands:

REQ’D (Oakland, CA)

THE GRANNIES (San Francisco, CA)

AIN’T (San Francisco, CA)

HULLABALOO (Boston, MA)

ODDLY ENOUGH (Boston, MA)

I was grew up in a New England town of less than 2000 people. I received a BA of Art from Colby College in 1981. I moved to Boston, MA in 1984.

In Boston, I met Thomas Quinn, Jr – a Berkelee College of Music music horn player, who would become my friend and musical partner off and on through to the present. He and I would start a noise/grunge band called HULLABALOO.

In Boston, I also met photographer, band manager, club owner, & chef, JJ Gonson. We lived together for 3 years and learned to tour. It would be my first time west of Chicago.

I moved to San Francisco, CA in 1990 and started a band called AIN’T. There I fell in love with Laurian Rhodes and convinced her to sing for the band. With Laurian, I toured Europe for the first time in 1996.

When that band ended, I started a cross-dressing punk band called THE GRANNIES with singer Marc ‘Dean’ Scheben, a German I’d met through my European touring. Together with drummer Christopher Sanborn, and other members over the years, we would record 8 albums and tour for almost two decades – in both the US and Europe.

Laurian and I started a family and moved to Oakland in 2006. She & I are now again in the same band, REQ’D. We celebrated our 29th wedding anniversary this past summer.

Through a rather full life in service of music, I’ve met and become friends with such visionaries as:

Kurt Cobain

Jack Endino

Peter Guralnick

Danny Lyons

Elliott Smith

~ sluggo