The Beginning “1965”

It all started in 1965 when I was 10 years old and saved up money by selling candy door to door all summer to buy a guitar from Sears for $65. It was a beautiful Stratocaster style guitar clone. It took me another year to save up for an Amp. First song I learned to play was “Little Black Egg” by the “Nightcrawlers” in 1965. A simple lick on the guitar, but a challenging beginning for me. Soon came “Wipeout” by the “Surfaris”. By the time I was 12 years old, I had a 3 man band and 10 songs we could play. At 14 we had our first gig that paid us $40 to play for 2 hours at a city youth dance. We thought we hit the big time! Later we grew our band to 5 members and played for dances at churches and schools. This lasted through High School in 1974.

A few years after High School (1976), some friends and I formed a band called “Second Chance”. We again played for Churches, Schools, County Fairs, Lagoon and Company Parties throughout Utah and Idaho.

In 1989 we created a “Rock Against Drugs and Alcohol” Program for Granite School District, which we played a 1 hour concert, complete with lights and pyrotechnic flash pots and explosions through 1993. It was fantastic!

As time went on, around 2002, with our own families and work obligations, the band became harder and harder to keep together. I dropped out of the band and decided to turn to recording my favorite songs which has grown to over 600 songs to date(2025) I am now 69 years old and still recording and have created this website to share with my friends and family. Although I never became a Rock Star as planned, music became a love and passion for me and I hope you will enjoy and laugh with me on my music journey and the music that I have recorded thus far.