Artist description Singer, Songwriter

Music Style Rock

Musical Influences Elton John; Yes; Steely Dan

Artist History In 1967 I started playing guitar at age 7. My father gave me his fathers guitar, an old "Stella". I banged around on that until around 1969-70 when I started to play the violin. I had years of private lessons and played at various solo festivals. I also played French Horn in high school. My first Pro gig was in 1973 in a band called "Odyssey". We played alot of school, and church dance's. My next band, "Midnight Sun", was started in high school and lasted untill 1980. Our "claim to fame" was that we won a Battle of the Bands contest in 1979 that was hosted by Wolfman Jack. Part of our prize was some studio time in a then state of the art 8-Track studio. From those tapes we were able to get some local airplay on KBBK 92FM. A tune I wrote called "Stormout" got heavy rotation during the late summer of 1979, and was #2 in requests to "My Sharonna" Here is a summary of stuff I've done since 1980. 1980-'81---- In a heavy metal band called "Rampage". Opened for Black Oak Arkansas, My first road trip. 1981-'82---- I worked as a single playing guitar, piano, and singing in places like: Pengilly's, Tom Graineys, The Gin Mill, and The Irongate Lounge. 1982--- I recorded and released my first solo album "Portrait" on which I played eveything except the drums. 1982-'86---- Started "Ocean" with Jeff Tauge. Toured Northwest, Midwest, and Canada. We had a regional Miller Beer sponsorship. More radio airplay. Exteremely popular band. 1986-'89---- I moved to Seattle, Washington and play in a duo with ex-Ocean bass player Pat Pulliam 1989-'91---- Joined "Justin Sayne". Toured exstensively. Release an album in 1991 called "Big Tools". Played alot in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. 1991-'92--- Started band called "The Powercats" We toured some. 1992-'93--- Joined "Redstone" Played Keyboards, Guitar and Fiddle 1993-Present---- Joined “The Rocci Johnson Band” The house band at Hummpin’ Hannah’s. Through it all I’ve continued writing and recording demos for an upcoming album to be relesed sometime in 2002.

Group Members Dave Robinette, Dave Earnest, Flip Perkins, Jeff Tauge, Pat Pulliam Rob Faler, Jon Hyneman, Mike Rosenthall, James Harrison, Rich Agguire Kenny Davis, Curt Gonoin, Homer Zachary, Lawson Hill, Todd Sprague, Homer Wise, Eric Kleeman, Darren Robinette, Jeff Job, Russ Pfifer, Rico Wiseman Mike Siefert, Rocky Paulson, Terry Conley,Bill Lyles,

Instruments Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Programming

Albums Potrait(out of print), Big Tools (w/ Justin Sayne), Balanced On The Edge

Location Boise, ID - USA

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).