About Me

	After noticing my dedication to band in 4th grade, my parents surprised me with a Ludwig starter set on Christmas morning of 1971.
	Norwood High School Mustang Marching Band State Champions 1976-1977
	Starting in 1977 I slowly started building up my 4 piece set.
	My 1979 yearbook picture. As can be seen, I wasn't very athletically inclined. Luckily my town had a very involved music program.
	In 1980 I joined a band. I wanted to look like Roger Daltery from "The Who". Little did I know that my hair needed to be longer first. The three other members were Berklee graduates.
	December of 1981. I was home on leave from NAS Jacksonville, FL. Earlier in the fall of 1981 I auditioned for the Navy Band in Orlando, FL. I had orders to be transferred to the Armed Forces School of Music in Little Creek, VA in January of 1982.
	Me and a couple friends from the Armed Forces School of Music in the summer of 1982 attended a state fair where this drawing was done.
	I believe this was 1986. I was a student at the Berklee College of Music. This was a CASIO pad set. It's good that I had those extra cymbal stands from years before.
	1990. My Bachelor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music.
	At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada.
	The Shifty Sailors in Olympia with Senator Mary Margaret Haugen. We are trying to get "Washington, Washington" considered as our state song. That's me in the bottom left wearing a harmonica belt and a Bodhran slung around my shoulder.