1977-1986… I had taken a smattering of piano lessons with bad results if I recall correctly. I do remember a mean teacher smacking the back of my hand with a ruler if I made mistakes although this may just be my over active imagination.

1987 - I became infatuated with the saxophone and I had to play one. And so my school band experience began

1988 - I had outgrown the saxophone and developed a new love, the trumpet.

1989 - I tried out for chorus and was told that I wasn’t naturally gifted enough (I still can’t sing, yet I do give it my all when given the opportunity) and with junior high around the corner I abandoned my music geekdom never to return.

1992-1995… Music was swiftly becoming an intense fascination for me, especially pop music, but I didn’t play an instrument. I thought that girls liked guitar players so I began playing around with my dad’s old rusty acoustic.

1995-1996… I was still jumping from horrible guitar to horrible guitar and with the onset of college I started to find others into music as much as I was and soon I had surrounded myself with musicians while I was not actually accomplished on any instrument. Then a friend named Big Brian came along and changed all that. He was a euphonium player in school band but also a bass player. He loaned me his old beat up fender bass and that night I jammed with a band for the first time.

1998 - I played my first show with my first band “Cookie” (named after a prostitute in a Woody Allen film) in May of 98 and I was hooked.

1999 - Cookie lasted a short time and with a new drummer and a slew of original material my next band  “Felt Gunderson” was born. We played many shows and continuously wrote interesting material and created
beautiful music both on and off stage for the next few years.

2001 - Felt Gunderson’s demise was swift yet painful and with two of the band members moving away I was sent floundering to find new avenues in music. After playing with tons of other people around San Diego I soon
formed two bands. One was a power rock trio consisting of me, one of Felt Gunderson’s guitarists and a new drummer and we labeled ourselves Frank Lloyd Wrong. The other was a band of surfer friends of mine whose entire attitude was to be laid back and mellow. We went through many band names (Technicolor Motorhome, Cumph, etc…) yet settled on Lo-Fi Audio.

2002 - The San Diego music scene was beginning to wear on me and for various reasons I abruptly picked up and moved back to New Hampshire. In my new surroundings I finished my first solo record aptly titled “Leaving The Past Behind”. It featured many musicians I had played with just before leaving San Diego along with some stripped down compositions of my own.

2003 - My plan of attending the Berklee School Of Music in Boston was temporarily thwarted due to monetary concerns and I had begun looking around for people to play with. In no time I met the boys in the Ben Shippee Band and two weeks later was playing my first show with them. Things just seemed to click with us personally and professionally right away and many fun shows were played and fun times had.

2004-2005... In the summer of 04’ I completed my second solo record “Unfinished Music For An Unfinished Film”, a collection of short instrumental compositions spanning a five year period of recording. Then in the spring of 05’ I finished my third solo record titled “Passion Veiled In Mediocrity”, consisting of entirely my compositions with me playing all of the instruments throughout.