Lead vocalist and guitar player for the rockabilly band Emery Villains. Last year the band did two single releases – putting out a music video for one of them last October – and they have been active performing there in northern California, with more dates next month and even as far out as September. They have even performed up in Washington State and in Oregon. He has also been a member of the heavy metal band Mordred.
“I was pretty young, four or five, and my grandpa put my first guitar in my hands. It was his guitar and taught me my first chords and my fingers hurt like hell. But he promised if I kept at it the pain would go away.”
“I really can't remember a time in my life where I wasn’t playing music.”
“Everybody played guitar back then or drums. Nobody played bass and nobody sang. I did both and it kept me busy for many, many years.”
“I've been bit by the swing bug; not just western swing and rockabilly, but it's, I just keep going backwards in time and discovering and rediscovering great music that I want to play.”
“In the early days – just in high school and getting out of high school era – I joined a band Mordred, Bay area thrash metal band, and we got a record deal right away and made a record… and we released a few more records over the years, toured U.S. and Europe mostly.”
“I feel like I'm at home playing this music.”
“Once she sort of made me understand how this stuff all works it was like I had opened up a door that just made it so much fun to write stories and the structure was … it felt like I was home and I could just really play this music till I'm gone. I just, I love it so much.”
“In a way I feel like sometimes I've tapped into something older that wants to help me write a song.”
“It is kind of fun to take songs that exist by like Van Halen or whoever and turn it into a western swing song. That's kind of fun.”
“I was assistant engineer on different gigs and stuff, so I got to work with BB King and John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana.”
“I can't even say if I like making videos more than recording music because it is so much fun… My goal is to make a video for every single song we put out.”
“Emery Villain Boogie”
“Haunted”