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About Me

Grew up in Cape May NJ but have been living in Tulsa for a few years now, I still ask myself why. Other than my Grandfather I'm the only one in my family that's out here, the rest are back in NJ/NY. I owned and ran a small sound company until a few months ago when I sold it to pursue my career as just an engineer. Started in the sound business 15 years ago. I started playing music and doing sound about the same time but moved on to just being a sound engineer full time about 10 years ago. I've worked with the band The Hero Factor for two and a half years as their FOH (front of house) engineer. I tour with She Wants Revenge, Uh Huh Her, Fair To Midland, Graham Colton and Seven Mary Three (sub for JayMo) as their FOH engineer and tour manager as of now (of course when they are on tour that is) and am rapidly expanding my roster with more acts as well. I'm half Sicilian. My Fathers side of the family came over from Sicily (Palermo) to start their families and business. My Father was a fun and loving man but unfortunately he's no longer with us. My Mother still does a great job of being, well my Mother. She's always been very supportive of me, she's the best. I have two sisters and two brothers. Guess who is the oldest. I'm a bit of a smart ass and somewhat restless. I'd rather work my ass off than sit on it. Usually pretty quiet when I first meet you but that won't last long. Love my work, maybe too much but I find that to be a good thing. I mean I could be like the other 90% of people who hate their jobs. I get bored pretty easily so it helps to keep me occupied. Out side of that I still play music for fun. Love the company of my friends and family, traveling, snowboarding, BMX but I've gotten too old for it. I'll leave it at that for now.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

maybe you FTMFound this on YouTube. SWR, Webster Hall show NYC. Probably my favorite PA on the tour. Oh and dude leave the zoom alone! True Romance, SWR. I don't remember where this was, maybe MN Andrew is crazy. He about gave me a heart attack the first time I saw him jump from this hight.

My Blog

Look for me on tour with FTM

Well as I mentioned I won’t be on the next SWR tour but I did pick up a tour with Fair to Midland which rocks! I’ll be out starting April 6th so come say hi to me at a show and rock out wi...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:47:00 GMT

Sold! but hey I got a tour so it’s all good.

So in my last blog (I really hate that fuckin word, BLOG it's so fuckin stupid sounding) I was talking about going through selling my company off and how the change was one for the better but still a ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:31:00 GMT

For sale, My life

I did my first sound gig about 15 years ago just turning knobs and such for a band called the Groove Pilots. It was at Eskimo Joe's that I broke my cherry doing the sound thing for band other than my ...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:27:00 GMT

10 things Jersey's famous for

1. Bon Jovi2. The Boss3. AC casinos4. Actually having better italian deli's and pizza places than NYC5. What Exit?6. Tomatoes7. 80's Hair8. The Boardwalk9. Salt Water Taffy.10. Being over run by Itali...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:30:00 GMT

My Sister's new house!

So yesterday I called my Sister Dawn to wish her a happy Brithday. A short conversation went something like this. Hello. Hey happy Birth Day! hope you're doing well. Oh thanks but it's not a good time...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:09:00 GMT

www.myspace.com/fohengineer

I've recently started a new account on myspace for my business. I wanted a seperate account than this one to do more networking with bands, lables and promoters and for this account to be more persona...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:23:00 GMT

Umbrellas

Lately I've not only been working for The Hero Factor full time but since we have been playing allot of shows with Umbrellas lately I've been working for them as well. For one Umbrellas is currently m...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:44:00 GMT

It's what keeps me coming back

Tonight was very unexpected. To explain I'll start with last night. Last night we were in Austin playing at Maggie Mea's. The place isn't the coolest but they have a full sound system and lighting and...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:56:00 GMT

Food poisoning sux

Yesterday was just pure hell. I've never experienced food poisoning before but after getting a full dose yesterday I have to say that it just plain sucks. On top of the sickness and feeling like I was...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:18:00 GMT

L.A. (long)

Most of The Hero Factor's friend and fans know that the band made a recent trip to LA to play some industry showcases. Here are some of the things I can remember about the tri...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT