Sunrise Utopia, Fl  USA Joined Aug 8, 2007

"Life Is What Happens To You, While You're Busy Making Other Plans" J.L.

I was born in Harlem, NY. My parents moved us to Flushing, Queens when I was 9 years old. My sister & brother use to take me to concerts. I saw Janis Joplin, Jeff Beck Group, Ten Years After, James Gang, Led Zeppelin, Humble Pie, Johnny Winter And, etc... I knew from that point I wanted to play Music. My first real band, I was 14 years old. It was called Barrel. We played all the dances in my area. We covered Alice Cooper to Allman Bros. After Barrel I joined some friends from High School and that band was called Buddy. It was glam rock, we did Mott The Hoople , Bowie, etc... After that I started a band called Teaser. Played all the bars & clubs on Long Island & Queens. From there, I joined a stream of original bands & played my own music in NYC. Bands from that period were King Flux (X-Plasmatics), V.O.V., Stangelove. I would go on auditions weekly published in the Public Notice section of the Village Voice. With "V.O.V.", we played the Marquee Club, The Bitter End, Kenny's Castaways