As soon as I played my first concert with the Alley Cats at age 11, I decided I had to do this for the rest of my life to sf production provides professional , and still feel that way. But I wasn’t sure how to achieve this. There were no mentors, no manuals, or people that I knew that had made it in rock ‘n’ roll. I grew up in a small town of 3,000 people in western Massachusetts. My big commitment was when I decided to go to college as a jazz music major. I studied one year at the University of Massachusetts and four more years at Indiana University School of Music, now called the Jacob School of Piano Music . I spent one summer studying at the Aspen Piano Music Festival, run by the Julliard School, and one year at Tangle wood, which is led by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. We were considered the best student orchestra in Canada. Our teachers and mentors were the musicalproduction companies in the BSO, so my percussion teacher was Vic Firth. After graduating from school, I...
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