I started young:

When I was real little my mom gave me a big box of her old 45s. I had this little plastic record player. I remember particularly liking "Good Vibrations".

After that it was Elvis. Reeeally liked Elvis. I was sad when he died. But then came KISS! It was 1977. I was 8. Peak KISS. I was Ace two Halloweens in a row.

I started playing drums when I was ten. In New England we had these things called Fife and Drum Corps. Tri-corner hats, gold buckles on shoes, red velvet vests. Like this:

REALLY hip. As you can see. So that's where I learned to play drums.

I started playing guitar at 15 and joined my first band 6 months later. We were called Nemesis and we ruled. By 19 I sounded like this. I was a master of taste and restraint.

In college I met a guy named Luca Benedetti. He played guitar too and it was immediately apparent that he was way better than I was. Still is. After college I played in the terribly-named but heavy AF Vicious Fish, and then moved to Boston in early 1993. Luca had transferred to Berklee and he let me crash on his couch, I'm forever grateful.

Took awhile to find my people, but I did, and went on to spend years playing in The Beat Down Sound, The Ivory Coast, Roh Delikat, and Hex Map.

I'd been recording since the 4 track days in college, and had a studio set up in every apartment I had in Boston. Initially I fancied myself a hotshot recording and mixing engineer, but as it turned out, not many people asked me to record or mix them. They did however ask me to master their records, so that's what I got good at and how I've made a living since 2010.

I don't really play live any more (mastering engineers are terribly overprotective of our ears), but I still play all the time and love recording and making records.

And that's it. Cheers.