Musician Bio

My musical history started the day my bother bought a guitar. I got a lot of practice time with the guitar since he was usually busy being social and doing fun “older-teenager-stuff”. It wasn’t long before I got interested in the electric bass. My first bass was purchased for $70.00 from a friend who was trying to clean out his closet.

I started my first band, Defunct, with a close friend, Ben Crandell. We liked heavy music, so we played heavy music. Ben and I kept the band together despite numerous line-up changes. We made 3 cd’s and ONE of them actually sold really well. After 3 and a half years, I was the only founding member in the band and decided to call it for a number of reasons. I’ll never forget the fact that I had 3 life time’s worth of fun during that band.

My next endeavor was called Swyss Chieze. That was two members, Dusty Jann and myself. We shared an interest in jazz and progressive and experimental music. That project was more about writing neat songs in styles that we hadn’t really done before. It was also during the Swyss Chieze project (2 years) that I attended Citrus College in California to study jazz and bass. I learned about as much from Swyss Chieze as I did from school. I made a lot of progress as a musician during this time.

I took off to New York for 6 months where I played in the subway as a drummer. Those gigs were here and there and not much developed from it, but it was a hell of a lot of fun. It’s also neat to play music and have to keep your eyes out for the cops, ha. I eventually came back to California.

I decided I didn’t want to “start” or “run” a band for a while, so I was on the lookout for a band to join. This started my professional music career. I got paid to play bass with King Nosmo, a California based “groove country” band. I also was hired to play with some events with the Universalist Unitarian Church in North Hollywood. I wasn’t particularly invested in any of these projects.

Vie was my last project in California. I joined them to play bass and play lots of shows, but more importantly, to develop with the band. This wasn’t a paying gig. I did it because I believed in the project. Playing with VIE offered me the chance to travel, play on much bigger stages, and do a ton of shows of general.

I’ve since moved to New York permanently. Now I am working on a solo album that will be more instrumental and have more mature material. I hope to gig around with this project a little bit, after it’s all recorded. After that project is on it’s feet, I’d like to start a band again and see where that develops. Nothing beats rocking the hell out of a stage.