Artist description Mild mannered super hero "Romotec" hiding under the guise of artsy fartsy musician. Hey just cause I'm in my mid 40's don't mean I can't do my thing to dazzle them young punks.

Music Style Various

Musical Influences Ambrosia, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Santana, Queen, Elton John, The Beatles, Uriah Heep

Similar Artists Ambrosia, Santana

Artist History I was raised in Windsor Ontario Canada played in rock bands at an early age in just about every bar and venue at that time, heck I wasn't even legal drinking age but never had a problem getting in bars as an entertainer. The seventies music scene was fertile grounds for me to develope my musical diversity. I've started playing in bands while still in high-school in the mid seventies and had the pleaure of playing with Chuck Price prior to his success with the band "Teaze", also jammed with Stacey Hayden (ex- Bowie guitarist) and the likes of Joe Konas (founder of The God's and original guitarist for Uriah Heep) some very amazing people who ultimately settled down in the Windsor area and influenced me greatly. In a short span of time I played in numerous Windsor bands (The Zodiacs, Saga, Surge, Whish, Sassafras & Synbad) are a few that come to mind. After packing local bars and covering most of southern Ontario and Michigan with reasonable success. I finally got a chance to record a full length album with a local Windsor band "JC & the News". We dominated the local club scene for just almost 2 years but despite our momentum and great local fan base our professional careers were in slow motion. Although our album worth of material showed great diversity and promise according to A&M record exec's still we lacked an identifiable sound and in '79-'81 rock'n roll was still a tough sell as disco had dominated the market some 5-6 years prior so somehow we slipped through the cracks. Had we only been patient and waited. Who knew that Rock was going to make a big comeback in the 80's. We had made a considerable recording investment. Delays, broken promises and our failure to get signed with any respectabe record label eventually led to internal bickering and our eventual dimise. After dis-banding I gave up on a music career, dis-illusioned with all of that show biz B.S. Being that I was scolastically driven and always under lots of pressure from my parents to find a more secure way of earning a living, I decided to go back to school. Having already earned an electronics college diploma I now decided a university degree in computer science would well prepare me for the emerging job market which eventually landed me a job with Ma Bell in Thunder Bay. In 1997 thanks to the urging of a friend after not even touching a musical instrument for over 16 years I came out of my self induced musical hibernation bought some gear and re-kindled my love of music. I don't think no matter how ugly the music industry gets that I'll ever quit music again it's just too good for the soul. See my latest work with the Thunder Bay Band "Wanted" the recently released Cd is available on MP3.com Right now I'm slowly putting together my own solo compositions which will hosted on this site so check for updates once in a while.

Group Members Me and my synthesizers.

Instruments Keyboards

Additional Info Also see http://www.mp3.com/TheWantedBand

Location Thunder Bay, Ontario - Canada

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