I am a Feral Hybrid creature! I spent over 40 years of my life with Wolf Hybrids

Seldovia private parties until soon, I finally have enuf gear for large venues. We start with the Linwood Bar in Seldovia, and will play various bars across the bay in Homer this coming fall.

Allowing great and broad exposure, I appreciate the networking abilities availed to musicians anywhere in the world, which has broadened my circle immensely. I could not collaborate at all from my semi-remote location without the 'net.

Unlikely, I intend to found my own label.

Going back to Klawock Alaska 1968, when Alvin Roberts was my guitar teacher, there was Sadi Synn (me) and Robbie Davis on drums. There was a constant flow of musicians thru my basement that formed my vocabulary, including Kenny Peratrovich and Bobby George of the Screaming Eagles, Alvin Roberts and Tuffy Kato of the Outer Tunes, Marvin George who could wail the Dick Dale numbers, Jim Mackey from Craig Alaska and more, all on Prince Of Wales Island near Ketchican. We were all really into the Ventures, then we heard The Bubble Puppy, The Doors, and Iron Butterfly.

In 1969, I moved to Anchorage where I met the other fellows in the 1969-1974 photo album seen on MySpace. My first real exposure to Amplifier Distortion as opposed to fuzztone, was seeing Rufus Reed with Proof on the Anchorage Park Strip during the Amchitka Nuclear Blast, 1969. Changed my thinkin'! I was, however, stuck with a cheap transistor amp, playin' surf rock with Paul Booth and Kurt Liljequist, also Dave Talbot. During this time, I also played with Tim Lowe on twelve string Lyle Electric into a Lafayette Electronics 80 Watt Bass Amp, and his brother Dan on drums.

1970 - 72 saw Paul switch to bass and Jack Rankin on drums. The three of us were all learning to improvise, no recordings survive today. They were actually quite good first takes, un-rehearsed just made up on the spot. Eric Laffoon came onboard also on bass and rhythm guitar, conned into lead for a surprise recording. Worked out better than we expected. Chuck Donchak was an additional drummer... we had two for some numbers. Just whims, no reason.

In 1971, I met Vince Gutierrez and we put together a rippin' rock band, Vinni bein' the smokin'est 13 year old lead guitarist Anchorage ever saw. I plan to do a new recording of his "Vince's Boogie" this winter. After a third of a century, we finally re-connected after He moved to the states in 1972. Norm Jerue made second lead/rhythm guitar and I held down the low end on my Norma Bass. We did lotsa improvised solos, more on the bass than anyone else was doing those days. I deeply regret not having recordings of this lineup for ye. After that, it was Me, Eric, and Jack. Eric moved to the states, George Snow and George Moreno came into the revolving door.... so did Monty Rostad and who knows else.

Not in the pictures, there was Monty Rostad, Ken ... something or other, Tony... uh... looked like a young McAlpine... he was Hawaiian, and Chuck Donchak. Tim and Dan got no pix, either. OOOPS!

We did our best to record on cassettes or reel-to-reel tape, but never made copies. One fateful day, a fool in the household decided to dust the bookshelves, and stacked the tapes on a face-down woofer magnet. Eight tapes of our better werks were thus gone forever, leaving us with the lesser tunes that were in a box elsewhere. They ain't too bad, so ye can hear 'em on the band's website www.feralhybrid.com , for download, not streaming. We are also on www.myspace.com/feralhybrid .

After many years hiatus due to head injury, I am resuming music.

Dave Brubeck, Ira Sullivan, Miles Davis, Santana, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Iron Butterfly, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, W.A.S.P., R.Carlos Nakai, Danny Gatton, Rolling Stones, James Gang, Led Zeppelin, just to get started....

Seldovia Area, especially Red Mountain and Kasitsna Bay. I try to skiff over to Homer to catch a live act that isn't coming to Seldovia every chance I get.

Squire Standard Strat, Sears Strat HSS and Harmony Vee with baritone strings, Carvin X100B head with three 12"s vertically in my own cab, a Fender Princeton I modded to 50 watts with two 6L6 GC, Sears Precision Bass, Behringer Ultrabass 300watt with two 15" Sony XPods, Carvin C3244U Mixer into Carvin DCM1540L with two cabs featuring 32 5" aluminum cone wide-range speakers each..... I love to build my own one-off cabs. Numerous acoustic funk, including Didjeridoo and wide range banjo, a Casio CT670 Keyboard (modest thing), and numerous "Frankenstein electrics" I cobbled from parts of broken guitars, and a low budget drumkit from J.C.Penneys of 60's or 70's vintage with newer hardware and cymbals added along with a miriad of found and cobbled dump-finds. I'll get some pix when my new camera arrives. Recording has been with a Tascam Porta-one Cassette 4 track, lately I'm fumbling with a Zoom MRS-8 from Eric Laffoon and Jack Rankin, Christmas 2005. An Alesis ADAT-HD24 Digital Recorder is in the plan for summer 2009.

I was lead to this site by Soundclick member 'Vazquez", friend and old bandmate of Eric Laffoon. Glad he introduced us. I look forward to meeting new co-conspirators.... I mean collaborators here!