It was January 17, 1977 when I had my first guitar lesson at Desimone's School of Music in Solon, Ohio. I would practice for hours & hours (wood shedding) everyday trying to nail down my favorite songs & solos. In 1984, I joined a local cover band named "Quick" which introduced me to the local Cleveland/Akron music scene. In 1986, I started playing with an all originals group named "Dreamstreet". In 1987, I then went on to play with another all originals group named "DEFCON" which ultimately landed a production deal that relocated the group to Chicago, Illinois. While In Chicago, we had the opportunity to record along side of some great musicians/producers including Rudy Sarzo of Whitesnake & Frankie Sullivan of Survivor. After DEFCON disbanded in the fall of 1991, I then moved to Los Angeles where I immediately started playing lead guitar for Cherie Currie, formerly of the female rock group "The Runaways". Cherie & I became great friends & co-wrote a lot of music together including several songs for film (Cyber Bandits, Oliver Stone) & TV. After repeated exposure in the LA recording studio scene I also became a hired session player recording guitar tracks for many artists such as Eddie Money (Love & Money Album), Robin McAuley (Michael Shenker Group), John Wetton (Asia), Rita Coolidge, Mark Andies (Heart), Curly Smith (Boston) & Roxy Petrucci (Vixen). Once the Grunge wave started taking over and it became "not cool to shred" I shifted my efforts to writing music scores intended for Film & TV and even some country music. After all of the networking, shmoozing, countless recording sessions and even landing my first song in a motion picture, I decided in the fall of 1994 that it was time to move back to Ohio where I continue to live today with my beautiful wife MaryAnne & our two children.
