PERFORMING EXPERIENCE 1981-2001
GUITAR
Prodigy, Vertigo, Top Secret, Wing-it, River Road, Music Lesson Place Teacher’s band, Coyote, Commercial Suicide
DRUMS
Coyote, Full Measure, Wing-it, The Charles Street Band, The Neal & Bob Experience
BASS GUITAR
Never Plugged In, Daymaker, Hired Guns, The James Mann Band,
Lateshift, Nobody’s Business, Coyote
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Full-Time)
July 1995 - July 1996
Guitar teacher at Mott’s Music (Unionville).
Sub-contracted to teach guitar at Markham High School
September 1995 - March 1998
Guitar teacher at Durham School of Music (Pickering)
1994-Present
Founded Music Exploration to provide lessons for guitar, bass guitar, drums, trumpet, trombone, mandolin; and host student band rehearsal and recording activities (Jamshop).
1997-2004
Recommended by L & M (Oshawa) as a reputable Whitby-area private teacher.
MUSICAL TRAINING
1968 - 1970 private trumpet lessons
1970 - 1974 High School Concert band (Trumpet) Eastdale Collegiate Oshawa
1979 - 1980 Private guitar lessons with Walt Young
1981 - 1982 Private guitar lessons with James Linderman
1984 - 1986 Guitar lessons, harmony, rhythm studies with Robert Bulger (Humber Jazz).
1993 Drum lessons with Ron Christopher (Herb Knox’s Excentrix Jazz Band).
AUDIO RECORDING & PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
RECORDING SESSION WORK (PLAYING)
The Mind Set, Howlin’ At The Moon, “Billy Brando”, Trouble With Jan, Ozmotus, Acid Reign, Princessriot, Commercial Suicide, Kenny James, D&D Music Productions
RECORDING ENGINEERING AND LIVE SOUND MIX
Bad Boy Furniture Commercials, Healthy Choice Commercials, The Cellar Dwellers, Ozmotus, The Mind Set, The Marvelous Beauhunks, Howlin’ At The Moon, The Purple Toads, Shark Graffiti, Straw Giants, David Roney, The Drowning Saharas, Bryan Williston, “Billy Brando”, The Pirahna People, Jaw Belanger, Babblefish, Faceplate, The Southern Comfort Band, The Music Lesson Place Student Bands, The Music Lesson Place Teacher’s Band, Southern Cross, Brass Knuckles, The Smarts, Alfred Krausel, The Trouser Snakes, The Angler & Hunter T.V. audio production, Miller & Mullet, Ray Hickey Jr., Acid Reign, James Mann Band, Lateshift, Full Measure, Mile Zero, Final Stage, Splatterpunk. Princessriot, Commercial Suicide, Jingle House Productions, D&D Music Productions, Trouble With Jan, Kenny James.
