I grew up in Hawaii through High School then moved to Long Beach, California to play in a band called The THINK Band with two guys I met during my Senior year. From Long Beach I moved to Durango, Colorado and the Long Beach band all ended up in Durango and we rocked there for about 6 years. After about 8 years in Durango I moved back home to Hawaii and ended up on Kauai where I now have an oldies rock and roll band called The Blond Boys. I've been writing songs since the 7th grade an I play all the instruments and sing all vocals on the songs that appear on this web site. I currently live on Kauai with my wife and I have two sons in college. I'm a deejay for a local FM station and between that, my family and my music, and golf I keep pretty busy.

I started playing music at the age of six when our family got an ukulele. My older sister taught me a few chords and I started learning songs from records by listening to the chords and trying to copy them. My sister and I would sing a lot of harmony to stuff like Beatles songs and Everly Brothers songs. My Mom loved Elvis and took me to see almost every movie that Elvis put out. A few years later my Dad bought a little Spinet piano for my Mom. I'd watch her play and was amazed that she could look at a page of lines and dots and know just what to play. I'd come home from school and sit on the piano bench and plink away at the keys. Eventually I learned to make three note chords and taught myself how to play by ear. I was in my first rock and roll band in the eighth grade. We were called the "High Tones," I guess because we all had adolescent high squeeky voices, and I started out playing rhythm guitar and ended up playing bass guitar. We stood out from the other bands because we had a girl for a drummer. It was early 1966 and we covered all the British Invasion groups and American groups. We practiced every week and did one gig in the school cafeteria, then we broke up. By High School I was in a real band that had real paying gigs. There were five of us and I was the drummer. We called ourselves the "Mainline Prosperity Blues Band" but we didn't play a lot of blues, mostly R & B stuff. We were popular because our organ player could play Light My Fire, long version, and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda note for note. And I could play the drum solo for In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda. Our guitar player could play "Hideaway" from John Mayall and the Blues Breakers, when Eric Clapton was in the band. We'd play for college parties and make about $10 each, and play for YMCA teen club parties. We also did a couple of "Battle Of The Bands" type gigs but never actually won anything. In my Junior year in High School I met a guy named Jim and we became good buddies. We'd play and sing together and we'd also write songs together just like those two guys in the Beatles. In my Senior year in High School, Jim and I met two guys, Mike and John, who transferred to Hawaii from Long Beach and we formed a great band and played a few gigs for private schools and a few Blasedell Arena gigs. Before the end of our Senior year, Mike and John had to move back to Long Beach so Jim and I moved to Long Beach after graduation. We were called The THINK Band and we played for college parties, Car shows, and what ever we could hustle up in the way of gigs. After a couple of years, I moved to Durango, Colorado to help a friend build his restaurant. Eventually the entire band, except for Mike, ended up in Durango and we rock and rolled there for several years. We also built a recording studio out of old barn lumber just outside of town and started experimenting with multi-track recording.
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