I saw my first National Resophonic Guitar when I was 10 or 11 years old at Frank's Music in New Rochelle, N.Y. I was impressed with the shiny finish. Around that time I got my own radio and I started listening to music on late at night. My favorite was Sam Cooke. At 15 I attended the Barlow school in upstate N.Y. where I started to learn about blues and folk music. My friends John Compton and Brad Fiedel had a band and I used to jam on harp.I started playing slide guitar in open E around this time. On May 10 of 1968, I saw Jimi Hendrix at Fillmore East and my life changed permanently. When was 17, I met Johnny Winter who told me about the guitar that he and many of my blues idols played. It took until 1989 for me to get my first National, a 1931 Style O {The shiny one with the Palm Trees!}. By this time I had figured out that open G was the tuning for Delta stuff, and picked up a few other tunings to boot. In the interim I played electric and slide in countless local bands in the NY club scene and went to work first for a local sound company, then a music store and wound up selling professional recording gear and working for manufacturers such as J.L. Cooper, Fairlight,Mitsubishi,Soundmaster and Westlake Audio.

In 1997 I put up my first web site to help my friend Wes Dooley auction off a multi-room Post facility. My emphasis shifted to web development and media which led me to NewMBC.

I've played in a variety of bands out here in LA and am now working on a new gig with my friends Mark Tabbert, George Van Wagner and Judy Rudin who are all extremely talented. WE hope to do some recording and gigging in 2007 and put some good stuff for y'all up here.

Ultimately though, this site is not JUST a band site, its a place to share ideas images and media. If you like the blues, dogs, photography, intelligently twisted humor, old cars, good food or are just really interesting...Welcome to the BlueZone!



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