About

A Lifetime of Drumming

Yep, This all started when I was four!

Started drumming at four years of age (Mom & Dad were extremely encouraging and supportive), with the typical musical trajectory through childhood (playing in school jazz, concert, & marching bands, rock & pop bands, etc.) My first 'real' group, progressive rock band, Equinox, signed our first major label deal in 1995, and our debut album, Color of the Time, charted as high as #19 around the world in 1996. I've been featured on dozens of major & indie label releases alike, as well as video game music, countless commercial jingles from the late 90s through the mid-2000s, and literally thousands of touring & local live shows in every type of venue. I've previously been an endorsing artist for a few drumming industry manufacturing companies. I had my brief 15-minutes in the spotlight. These days, my drumming career has become more about having fun performing with friends in local/regional bands. I enjoy the light travel schedule and manageable workload of being a 'Weekend Warrior". My family does, too. And I still take on recording projects from time to time - so hit me up!

I started the band Skitzo Fonik in 2013 with my friends, and we started performing live in 2014 after ten months of rehearsals. We're a Pop, Rock, Dance Variety Band, and I have a blast playing our shows. I invite you to come out and see a show sometime! If you do, please come up and say "hi". I'm always down to 'talk shop' and geek out over drum gear (time permitting, of course).

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I don't always have time to keep this calendar updated, so please refer to the Skitzo Fonik show calendar at skitzofonik.com

    Videos

     

    When we started Skitzo Fonik, we had my friend, Matt, playing keys with us. He was my partner in crime on stage, as we split upstage (the back of the stage) between us, allowing the rest of the band to spreadout more evenly in front of us. For the first time, I had a fellow musician (not a tech) sharing the back of the stage with me, and we did everything we could to make each other laugh hysterically during the shows - mostly stuff nobody else would ever see. In the following video, he had badgered me into making an ass of myself with some stick tricks. The phone video from 2014 looks awful at best, but I smile fondly every time I watch it.

     

    I'm including the following drum solo video because it shows a set of humbling flaws that are funny to me. After a run of several theater shows, here was a night being professionally recorded, and I kept flubbing my way through the ‘usually routine’ solo. It looks and sounds great, but falls short in my performance. Why would I post it, then? Because it keeps with my YouTube channel's theme of showing my own realities of live gigging in a lighthearted way. I recommend watching this directly on YouTube, because you can read the full story behind it in the description.