I have met my two biggest influences, Buddy Rich ( before he passed away ) and I have been a fan and influenced by Frank Frazetta since around 10 years old.
If you are familiar with the three volume set of art books by Underwood Publishing spanning Frazetta's career ( Icon, Legacy, and Testament ) you can find my name in the publishers thanks page in front of the latter. I had a small part and honor helping on the Testament book, and two of my Frazetta commissions are published inside. Click the banner to visit his site.
So I guess I consider myself very lucky, unless Carol Smillie, Laila Ali or Gillian Anderson knock on my door, I then move up to "blessed" :-)
Me and Buddy Rich. This was taken when I was in high school. Buddy was actually smilling at first, but my friend Tony ( Tony Hammons, Montgomery Gentry's drummer ( pictured on right )..we went to high school together in this little town! ) was so slow on taking the picture he kind of pissed Buddy off ( which was easy to do! LOL )...and yeah, those glasses I am wearing were..uhh..cool back then!..Yeah, thats the ticket! And if ya think its funny, click below!
A local newspaper write up a few years ago. To read more about my experience and my bandmates,click the image below.
To view my "myspace" musician page, click the first link in my friends list.