About Me
OK, for the past year everyone has been knockin' my old bio saying it was silly, stupid, racist and even satanic! So by popular demand, here's a good ol' fashion boring bio with just the facts ............................................................
..................................... Born in Pine Bluff AR, son of a traveling salesman and a school teacher. Like everyone else, my music education was my Dad's record collection. Jerry Lee, Chuck n' Buck, Jimmy Reed, Tony Joe White and more Jerry Lee. I started playing the upright bass in my school orchestra. One day I saw "Back To The Future" at the Broadmore theater in Pine Bluff. It was that Michael J. Fox/ Johnny B. Good scene, Everything changed! I freaked out!! My dad had an old Harmony Stella laying around. I knew the bottom strings were E-A-D-G. I set out to learn that guitar intro. Needless to say, It took a few years but meanwhile I learned the boogie-woogie bass line by watching the Elvis comeback special on late night HBO. The early days of HBO was a big deal back then. I would go through the program guide and watch only the shows that had the letters N,V or SC next to the title (nudity, violence, strong sexual content.) One day I came across "A Hard Days Night" on HBO. I didn't quite understand it 'cuz they talked funny, but I was hopin' I'd see some titties. I asked my Dad who it was, and he said just some fucking hippies from the 60s who called themselves the Beatles, the dude with the glasses is the anti-christ. He crushed my curiosity so I didn't investigate much further. I could never bring that big-ass upright bass home to practice so I learned those Beatle bass lines on that old acoustic guitar. Along the way I kinda' became a pretty decent guitar player and went through that heavy metal phase when bass wasn't cool anymore. I learned Johnny B. Good along with Metallica's "One." My dad bought be an electric guitar with only one condition: I had to learn the "Wildwood Flower." I did, meanwhile I was tearin' up some Van Halen OU812 and "Cliffs of Dover." Then on HBO I saw Ralph Macchio's "Crossroads." Damn, I discovered the blues. I had pretty much played the Penatonic blues scale to death. A few months later my Penatonic blues mentor died (SRV). I was convinced that it was an omen or a sign. I over played his licks so much, I killed the poor guy. Back to bass. I bought a '72 Fender Tele Bass and moved to Memphis. Joined a band called The Pawtuckets and achieved hometown hero status and then broke up because the two frontmen thought they was Lennon & McCartney when they was actually Laurel & Hardy. I then went on the road for a few years with Alvin Youngblood Hart. There wasn't 'enuff sex, drugs or rock 'n roll so I quit the road life and started a band called The Lights while backing a buddy named Cory Branan. The Lights burned out, but with Cory I got to play on The David Letterman Show!! He got smart and moved so then I joined another band called The Secret Service. We rocked hard while our front-man developed a unique taste for extravagant Elton John costumes. Our lead guitarist split for greener pastures so I wandered around like a cow backing every other half-lit star in Memphis. I'm currently playing with John Paul Keith (The love child of Jerry Lee and Harry Potter!!) We're called the One Four Fives 'cuz thats the only chords we know, but that boogie-woogie bass line I learned from HBO in the 80s has come in quite handy..."Myspace Layout Stealer Pimp Myspace
