I never played guitar as a teen all alone in my bedroom for hours on end, but always wanted to, so I finally picked up a guitar rather late in life, around 36, and began forming a band as soon as I left the guitar store, because I figured good musicians are hard to come by and I better get a head start. Among my earliest memories I remember my mom learnin' me to read and write, so I've always been a writer, and before I wrote songs I wrote poems, prose, some stories, articles, a children's book, and audio-fiction. As soon as I learned 3 or 4 chords I started writing songs and began performing them almost as quickly as I wrote 'em; for the same reason I began looking
for players, I figured I'd learn to play and perform at the same time, a kind of holographic approach rather than a linear one. My band Bag One released "Sunglass Stories" in 1999 and it is one of the best selling albums on the internet by an unsigned band, and while that project was going well, I kicked myself out of the band to manage Lauren Echo, a member of Bag One, cause sometimes it's better to know when you're Morpheus and when someone else is Neo. I make my musical base on the NY Antifolk scene; among my friends and inspirations are Joie DBG, Paleface and Fenton Lawless, all of whom I took with me in my guitar case when I started the AntifolkSongwriters OpenStage in WPB Florida where I am currently in exile, but before that I had the opportunity to play some very dark, smoky and respectful music appreciation NY clubs like: Sidewalk Cafe', CBGB's Gallery, Parkside Lounge and Rodeo Bar. My most recent performance was at Sidewalk for the 1st Annual David K 50th Birthday Celebration Show. Nowadays I really get off sitting alone in my bedroom late at night playing my songs so that when I play out I won't mess 'em up.
