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Uhhhh.... well.... like most things I started out innocent but soon hit the harder stuff. I was designed back in the 70s beneath the balboa palms of sunny San Diego by spaced-out hippies in Pacific Beach. I still hear gentle surf reverb even in total silence. At 7 I thought I was Ace Frehley. Common stuff. I probably would've ended up like Stacey Peralta but at 9 I lost my boogie board to iguanas out in the Mojave desert where my parents decided to relocate. Thrown into the infinite arid backdrop of Death Valley’s timeless stop-motion psychology, I picked up the guitar at twelve and hit the ground laughing. Inspired by peyote (actually i've never even touched the stuff), tarantula hawks, malt liquor, and old Indian petraglyphs, I began harnessing chords and melodies to reflect the psychic adventures and unstable isolations of the Western Trip. After high school I migrated north to the Redwoods and earned my keep by walkin’ bass lines in a Dixieland jazz ensemble and dabbling in philosophic letters at the local university. I was a voracious student and probably could've had a successful career in the cognitve sciences. But all the while I kept being slain by the sounds in my head- spinning, twisting, breathing, exploding into heavenly bandstands of wild jungle drums, dream-soaked orchestrations and cherry neon melodies. In January of 1996 I smashed soul-first into San Francisco and was immediately washed beneath the city’s swirling underworld of dialated discos, carbonated cabarets, and kinky lounge lofts. It was in these salubrious waters, amongst SF's thriving boho bonanza of bongos, beat hucksters, rave nymphs, burlesque stars, porn carneys, klown kitties, lazer berries, crack muppets, hipsters, slicksters, bleeps, blips, and Black Rock commandos that I first learned to tilt my hat, pull my sleeves back, slide the fader up, and steer a pair of 1200s through the forbidden flames of hot sonic doom. But these days I compose more music than I spin, and I seem to promote more events than I actually attend. I also love Lawrence Welk. So maybe there's a connection there.