I was born in the 60's on a cold snowny Thurday morning at St. Mary's Hospital in Phila. on March the 31th My name is Bill I Grew up fast an hard in the streets of "Kensington".
As a kid my mother drug me to woodstock so I got into music the hard way but I soon found I enjoyed it alot.
went to Visitation grade school as a kid North Catholic High School as a teenage in the early 70's an found KISS.
Well after that music wasn't the same anymore.
become a Boy Scout in my early years learned to fish,hunt. an rock an roll.
Spent my daze Parting an my nite Rockin in places like Gene's on the Blvd Heaven, The Galaxy an other rock clubs around town.
Were I met alot of cool people there too.
Started played the Bass listing to KISS alot.
enjoy Halloween dressing as KISS Gene Simmions too won first prize may times.
love the Blood alot got burnt a couple times doing the fire trick never learned my lesson.
then.....
met a nice girl and dated awhile Then We moved to New York for sometime. hung out awhile got a nice buck with my bow.
love the snow 37" on my 37th birthday that was cool.
Moved back to Philly got married hung out for a year or two then off again to Tennessee were she was from.
I worked at a car wash for sometime in the summer for a man named
Paul Gregg(Restless Heart's bassplayer).
visited Jack Daniels while I was there really great it was.
stayed there for five years had a son while we were there too named Jonathan Daniel Strassel short for jack daniels.
when he was six month old we moved to Florida with 2dogs 4cats an the kid. what a trip that was! from HELL.
well I lived around the corner from "Roland Martian" the Bass Pro guy in Cleweiston Florida near Lake Okeechobee.
got some great bass there right in my front yard.
made it throught 4 hurricanes Jean,Francis,Charlie&Ivan decided that was enough sold the trailer to a friend that next year if blew away in the lake with the rest of the shit.
Then moved to Delaware for a short time nothing happeningso then to Upper Darby were I live now with my wife an son.
"My Littel KISS Freak in The Making""In Memory Of"
Tommy Carter
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