Guitarist and vocalist for Power And Wealth Need Slaves [P.A.W.N.S. for short] and guitarist for Ill Gotten Gainz. For the last 10 years I've helped operate a DIY tour services for bands throughout North America, Western and Eastern Europe. I also run BlackLodge recording studio. Its location is right int he middle of the Northwest tour circuit, and we're privileged to catch bands when they are playing at their best. Along with collective engineers Zeke Bonecrusher and Mykee Ramen, we've recorded tracks from Ed Mudshi (France), Restarts (UK), VALS (Netherlands) and La Plebe, just to name a few of our favorites. I'm also a professor of history at Butte College and at times teach political science courses and multi-cultural gender studies for Chico State University California. Specifically, I specialize in the politics of race and ethnicity, power dynamics, intellectual history and subsequent paradigm shifts, and world history from 8,000BCE. But that's my hobby. My real job, as I conceptualize it, is to facilitate relationships between people who reject the core substance of a ruling-class defined hegemony that emphasizes profit and exploitation as primary values. I'm an artist, and human capacity is my medium of choice...it's very diverse and chaotic at times and you never really know how it's going to quite turn out.
