Residence:
Chili, NY

Occupation:
Electro-Mechanical Technician (Optical Coating Machinery)

Status:
Married 20 years. One child.

About:
Born in Hammondsport, NY. in 1962 to a musical family. Father was School Board President during my early years. He worked hard to expand the Music Department at H'Port Central School. Of course both parents encouraged my 2 sisters and me to take part in the music program. I joined the elementary band and chorus as soon as I was able. In high school, all three siblings were band and chorus members and all three were 6 A+ soloists. I was selected for All County Chorus and Band, and Area All State Band and Chorus each of the 4 years of high school. I also performed with the Conference All State Chorus one year, held here in Rochester. We had a spin-off a cappella swing choir that I also sang with all 4 years of high school. I played trumpet in band and eventually picked up the bass guitar and played that with the HS jazz band. My parents bought me a drum set as well and there went the neighborhood. During and shortly after HS, I played bass with a few different local rock bands. My first band was called the Duck Swamp Band; We did mostly southern rock and won 2nd in the school talent contest. Our lead singer went solo and took 1st. I've never forgiven him! My second band called Gryphen played all the top hits of the day; Cars, Styx, Foreigner, ZZ Top. I also played drums with 2 different country and western combos, one of which became quite popular down in the Southern Tier.....after I left, of course.

The summer of 1980 and 1981 I toured with a junior drum and bugle corps all over the east from Birmingham Al. to Montreal Quebec. That corps, The Squires, from Watkins Glen was once judged 13th in the nation.

After high school I had hoped to continue studying the technical aspects of the music business, including sound recording and live sound. I blew my audition for the music department at SUNY Fredonia and from that point on my music interests faded. I continued college at SUNY Alfred and Corning Community, studying Electronics and technology.

20 years later, while working at a manufacturing plant a friend of mine called me over to his CD player and asked if I'd ever heard anything like what he was playing. Of course, I'd heard 4 part vocal harmony. My dad sang barbershop and my mom had a huge collection of barbershop on vinyl from the 1950s. My sister formed a quartet in high school and took 4th in the talent contest. I loved a cappella harmony! My friend was recruiting for the Monroe County West Chapter of S.P.E.B.S.Q. S.A.(The Barbershop Harmony Society) and it's Chorus of the Erie Canal. I joined immediately and have been a dedicated barbershoper ever since. After a few years singing and serving on the Board of Directors of the Chapter as V.P. Chapter Development, and Treasurer, the chapter just recently had to dissolve due to age and attrition. Still, I currently sing baritone with the Flour City Express quartet here in Rochester. Keep an ear out for us!

While singing with the barbershop chorus, I answered Andy Buschemi's ad for a local a cappella group forming. I had hoped to recruit him into the chorus...and did for a short time...but things kind of backfired. I ended up joining his a cappella group. We started rehearsing at a dormitory at the University of Rochester, came up with the name InnerLoop, and the rest is history!

Hobbies:
Hunting, Fishing, Gun Collecting, Amateur (Ham) Radio, Sound Reinforcement, Recording... ......... ......All whenever I'm not singing.

A few random thoughts:
Duh...My medication prevents random thoughts! Oh yeah! When you hear the belts slip, its time to kick the fat guys off the freight elevator!