Novacain was Middah's band, and I sat in on 
guitar one day at an outdoor festival in Stockton, May 13th, 2000. There were alot 
of other players from other bands and I was up there performing with my band Left Out Lamont 
at the time.  It was a noise band, so I could play anything I wanted.  
I got creative and so did every one else There were several dozen people who saw us that day.
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In 2000, I played bass with singer, songwriter Michael Ortiz's group 
for live gigs performing several tracks off his debut solo effort Just Breathe as well as some tracks for a band
that he was going to call Stoopid Cat. I may be working with him some time this year on some new material.



 

 

























In 1992, while still in Obscurity, I was asked by our drummer 
Alex Altus to play bass on a recording project he was doing for his class at San Francisco State.  It required learning
several songs and working them out with his guitarist.  We did the recording, but the group then took a turn. They had
called the project Nevertheless, but whether that was Ted or Alex's name, I don't know.  Obscurity
broke up in August of that year, and I did not continue to work with Alex, but with his guitarist, Ted.  Ted and I formed
a trio with a drummer, Rob.  Ultimately, I think Ted envisioned it being a larger band, with us at it's core, but after
nine months of working on songs, we disbanded.  We did put together a recording before we broke up, recorded on Easter 1993.
I later called the band Diminishing Thoughts, after one of the songs that I wrote with the band. 


















 
The Cobwebbs.  Well, that's what I always called it. 
Jeff Weber was my old guitar teacher.  We used to have these "classes" - which were basically jam sessions - 
where his other students would come and play in a band situation.  I was the bass player and alot of the times, we 
would play songs I didn't know, which was always a fun challange.  I met alot of
other musicians this way, including Jim The Accountant, Yugi - a japanese guitarist.  
Jeff passed in 2002 - from cancer.  He is missed, but always with me.  There has been some talk of getting a
memorial show together for him this year.


 

 
























In 1997, after Random Eye broke up, I had agreed to join a blues band
that was going to be called Sidewinder.  Years earlier, during some of the jam sessions with Jeff Weber and his students, I met
Tony Flores - someone whom I still consider to be a really good drummer.  He was playing with a guitar player named Dave 
(who apparently was good friends with John Lee Hooker) and they asked me to play bass.  
Unfortunately, after a couple of jam sessions, I had to decline the offer, as I was just not ready to be in a band
so quickly after Random Eye had disbanded. It was a tough decision as both Tony and Dave were both very good musicians, and 
in hind sight, I know I would've learned alot from them in a short time. 


















 
After knowing Rick Sandoval for over twelve years, we were finally
able to work together.  These sessions were recorded in 2004. All of it is improvised electronic music.  
I laid down the guitar tracks afterward, but they were also improvised.  The samples were just thrown together.


 

 
























In 1993, I was asked by Rob Sandoval,
formerly the guitarist of Obscurity to play bass for Abhorrance.  They had deceided to break up, 
and the bass player/frontman had joined another group, but they were offered a gig with Death, the premiere death metal band of 
the day.  I told Rob that I would do it and he began to show me the songs.  Amazing and grueling as it was, (eleven riffs in one song) I 
managed to learn enough before the gig, and was actually complimented on my playing and stage presence by some folks in the crowd 
after we were done.


















 
When I was in high school, I had two friends who were in my art class.  
One day we got together at another friend's house for a jam session.  Daniel, who was an East German foreign exchange student
played drums.  Tony yelled into the micraphone, Rick played guitar, and I played bass.  We made up this song, and then
recorded it.  We worked out a signal for Daniel to change the beat (when Tony sang "RUN").  Eventually, as the years went by
Rick and I referred to this group as Neural Feces.  Rick's band later needed a name and used the it for a brief period, 
it even made it on a bill at the Stone nightclub in San Francisco in 1990. 
Red Slime was the first recording that I did with a
group.  The full version is almost twelve minutes.