Most people think I made it up, but "Star" is actually my name (my middle name).

Yes! Phoenix venues include The Paisley Violin, Last Exit, The Paper Heart, Yucca Tap, Xtreme Bean, Mama Java's and 3 Roots. Minnesota venues inclued The Tavern on Germain and The Red Carpet. I also did Spoken Word at the Seventh Street Entry once, and it was golden! (I love that stage).

Say goodbye to CDs (if you haven't already). I like the creative ways artists are selling other tangible merch, such as oven-mitts and sexy thongs.

I had a mentor (who has since passed) that once saw the underbelly of said industry. Perhaps he only saw the bad, but if the good is ten times as good- I wouldn't sign it with a ten-foot drug needle while whistling a song I wrote that I am no longer allowed to sing.

At the beginning of the new millennia, working alongside a man named Doug Gibson, I developed a taste for playing Classical-style guitar with cello accompaniment (courtesy of his good friend, Joel). Following this, my attention shifted to electric guitar as I had recently acquired a Charvel from co-music-conspirator and bass player, Jim McKay. I went on to play in Minnesota for a stint with full-time cello backup via Jonas Dubin (as recorded by our buddy, Hazzy, with Playground Productions). Soon after, I began to play and record with another Phoenix-based artist whose forte was Electronica and Classical piano (i.e. Manicrepercussions). Further expanding my experience in the studio, I joined guitarist, Jason Messer, for an artistic collaboration (by way of Twangman Productions), and learned several “covers” while performing out with him. Currently, I have been playing with and recording in the studio of Scott Worstell, who plays a Flamenco-style, thin-body guitar in almost every genre (Scionblue Productions).

Again, Bowie, Bjork, Velvet Underground, Orbison, Pixies and Portishead...add Jim White, Jazz greats, Classical, Underground Hip Hop, and Luxuriamusic.com: Outré lounge and Latin jazz, breezy swinging instrumentals and vocals, groovy 60's go-go, psychedelia, quirky oddities, retro pop and surf music!

Mexico, La Jolla, Point Loma, Albuquerque, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Denver, Chicago, L.A., Minneapolis, New England, Portland (OR & ME), San Francisco, Seattle

New all-black Jackson electric guitar.

Interests: art, activism, astrology, acting, cartoons, cooking, fashion, fire poi, love, poetry, music, science, sorcery.