History (in the Music Business!)

Started playing bass in a high-school rock band in 1980

Performed a self-promoted show in my home town of St. Agatha during my Senior Year in High School.

During college at St. Thomas University, I met up with Steve Collin and joined the band "High Fidelity" and played in bars and clubs all over Northern Maine.

Moved to Central Maine and attended the University of Maine at Augusta majoring in Jazz and Contemporary Music.

I studied bass under John Hunter and Aaron Hersey (currently in the Vermont based band Grippo Funk Band)

John Hunter

Met and began to play with Ric Edmiston as part of the duo Lackee's Magnito recording the famed "Greatest Hits" album published through Schooner Fare's label Outer Green Records

Ric Edmiston

Moved to Southern Maine to attend graduate school at the University of Southern Maine and began to play with the Manhattan Transfer tribute band "Rush Hour" with Jennifer Porter. (Jen is still producing new music, co-founded a theater group in Saco, and co-produced, wrote, scored, and starred in a feature film "Mr. Barrington".

Jennifer Porter

After several years of being out of music I hooked up with an old UMA classmate Gerald Brann and joined the group Barking Spiders. I played with bandmates Gerald, Mike Tobias and Peter Rogers. Gerald moved on to create his own group Yellow Brick Road (a tribute band to Elton John)

Gerald Brann as "Elton"

For a couple of years I played with Rick West (of local "Cherokee" fame. Playing a combination of original and selected covers were were fairly busy and ended up opening up for such acts as Buddy Jewell, The Bellamy Brothers, and Liz Carlisle.

On July 2nd Rick West opened up for Buddy Jewell at the Stonehedge Campground in Gray, Maine. We also played on the 3rd, along with many other artists, opening up for the Bellamy Brothers.

Buddy Jewell

Fun was had by all and it was great opening up for Buddy! Katie and I also met and spoke with Liz Carlisle, an upcoming folk artist...she was awesome!

Click HERE for some pictures from the show!

One member of the Rick West band...a late joiner named Mike Ponder decided to break away and formulate Steel Rail Express. I became a founding member of this group and we played all over Central Maine

Then I received a fateful call from my old friend Gerald Brann. It seems they needed a new bass player. I tried out for the gig and didn't get it...they hired the previous bass player that they had had at the beginning. When that didn't work out they called me back and invited me to join the band. After negotiation a highly lucrative contract I agreed! (Just kidding....)

After a while the combination of Steel Rail Express and Yellow Brick Road was too much to handle so I decided to focus my energies on Yellow Brick Road and left SRE.

Since leaving SRE, Yellow Brick Road has been an exciting trip to a level of music and gigs that I have never experienced. We have played all over New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Dominican Republic!