I grew up in a very musical family. My Mom's side, to be more specific. Everybody loved to sing and BOTH of my parents have great taste in music, so there was always Beatles or Steely Dan to get my hands on as a youngster. I fell in love with the Grateful Dead upon first contact. After a couple of years realizing that college wasn't my bag, I moved to West Chester, PA to form the band, DOUBLE DOSE with 2 guys who swiftly became my best friends. We became quite popular in the local scene, starting in dives and eventually playing big B clubs and a few A clubs, as well. Although we did a LOT of Grateful Dead tunes, we got to a point where we played about 50%-60% originals at our gigs and people were requesting them all the time...it was good. Unfortunately, shit happens and the band members started growing apart from each other.
FORTUNATELY, I met a beautiful woman - the love of my life - and we married, had a beautiful baby girl in 2000 and that year, we all moved back to the 'Burgh. THEN in 2003, we were blessed with twin boys! The family life was ROCKIN'.
But, the music was not. Going from playing several gigs per week to none at all turned out to be something my body could not handle. SO, I booked myself some solo gigs and some duets to get myself recognized...hoping to meet more musicians, taking the "Field Of Dreams" approach ("If you play, they will come"). And they did. I met a great keyboardist in Mike Tony, who plays with the Pgh.-based Dead band, Fungus and he introduced me to Mike South and David Tauberg...the former, a wonderfully creative drummer and soundman extraordinaire - the latter a bassist with an amazing angle on music. After forming theCAUSE (www.thecausejams.com), and exhausting 3 or so female vocalists, we found the extremely lovely & talented Ali Schelin and she has been with us eversince. All 4 of these people have quickly become my best friends and I am having the time of my life, musically.
All I can hope is to keep enjoying what I'm doing and if others find enjoyment in it, as well - I couldn't ask for anything more.
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