ROLLER
I was light-man for Roller. I never played in the band. But this band was my first ...
CHILDERS & RAMSEY
It might not be accurate to describe this project as a band. Or even as a project.
RMS
Basically, RMS was Roller with a different drummer and me playing bass.
LEGEND
This band greatly widened my horizons, exposing me to a lot of music that I ...
LIVE BAND
A band without a name. But the marquis out front always said “live band”. So we ...
POETIC JUSTICE
The last, and best, hope. Looking back now, I realize that Poetic Justice was ...
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“The girl who can't dance
says the band can't play.”
- Yiddish proverb
I've been in various bands in my time. Some better than others. But I figure where we've been in our past
helped get us to where we are. It's part of who we are.
I've listed the bands in chronological order. It's an incomplete list, because there are a lot of
musicians and bands that I played with during my so-called mercenary days, when I did a lot of
what I called “spot work”, filling in for bands who suddenly needed a bass player for
gigs.
I appreciate each experience I had with each band. But I think it was the spot work that most
defined me. I'd often be contacted by someone a few hours before a gig, walk on stage with people
I'd never met, and play songs that I didn't know. After doing that for awhile, you become rather fearless.
But to this day I miss being in a band. I miss the comraderie. I don't miss the ego-trips and the
melodrama, but you take the good with the bad. Mostly I stopped playing in bands because I never
seemed to be able to do what I wanted to do.
I won't say that this list won't grow in the future. But for now, this is it.
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