I was 15, and in a world where Alternative Rock and Ghetto Rap were rampid...I yearned for something different. I started at the beginning, absorbing as many of the classics as I could: Peter Erskine, Dave Weckyl, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Smith, and Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, just to name a few. I’ve come to the point where I consider every sound I’ve ever heard, good and bad, an influence to my music. In that sense I don’t close my self off to any one style of music. I have been in several hard-rock bands, none of which have satisfied my musical goal. While I am comfortable playing all diferent genres, it is a progressively insane, odd-time driven, groove-laden sound that I seek. A sound that speaks on a primordial level.

Influences

Mike Portnoy

Carter Beauford

Blake Richardson

Thomas Lang

John Blackwell Jr.

Well, I’ve been acting since I was 5. I’ve done mostly theater, including several plays for professional dinner theaters. I graduated from the Theater department at Cypress Lake Highschool Center for the Arts in 2003. Since then I’ve done a couple of independant film projects, and recently had a small role in HBO’s Recount. I am also S.A.G. eligible. Save a starving actor...employ my character services now!