An Endless Passion for Music

For Discovery, for People, for Life...

 I am a Colorado native. I grew up in Denver and moved to Fort Collins to attend CSU in 1976 after living in Hawaii while serving in the US Navy. I’ve been playing guitar and performing for about 40 years. I studied Classical Guitar as a teen, but remain mostly self-taught. More recently (2011-2024) I’ve been playing pedal steel and guitar in show bands in Arizona and Colorado.

Along with a passion for all things steel guitar related (pedals, lap, dobro, Weissenborn) I also enjoy playing finger-style guitar, acoustic, and electric). I love the endless journey of learning on guitar.

I recorded music for myself and others at Seldom Fed Productions Recording Studio Fort Collins, CO for many years from 1991 until moving to Montrose CO in 2020. In Ft. Collins we did 100s of sessions for local musicians.

Over the years my formal musical experiences include Membership in many Colorado Front-Range bands; Book ’em Danno Hawaiian Swing Band, Rounder, Cabin Fever, The West Brothers band, Country Time Band, Bum’Kin, Goatz!, Jimbo Darville and the Truckadors, Brad Fitch and the Tropical Cowboys, and Scott Allen with the Tropical Coyotes – and along the way had some fun Openings for Poco, Dan Seals, Firefall, Doug Kershaw, Holly Dunn playing the ‘mud circuit’ in the west (Cheyenne Frontier Days, Greeley Stampede, National Western Stock show)and even a performance with the Ft. Collins Symphony. 

I worked with Doug Kershaw for a few years as a steel player and fiddle player. The last decade was spent on stage 5-7 nights a week with the Barleen’s Opry in Arizona, and as a side man at the Silver Star Theatre, and the Rhythm Cats in Mesa AZ.

In addition to performing and recording I also tried to manufacture some custom lap steel guitars. The Berkley Guitar company. I continue to enjoy performing solo, and as a sideman in bands,  teaching, learning and recording, 

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