PROJECTS:

• Lash 41 (1995-1997)
• Ailment (1996-1998)
• Heterodyne (1998-2000)
• The Jeta Grove (2001-2003)
• Shortwave Dahlia (2004-2010)
• The Near Reaches (2010-2012)
• Solo work (2012-present)
• The Pneumatic Girls (2013-2014)
• Blindcopy (2020)

The first song I learned to play by ear was “Suicide is Painless”

I was probably six or seven and we had an old Kimball piano in our living room. My parents had one of those great big televisions that was built into a big honkin’ wooden cabinet. M*A*S*H started broadcasting, and I started finding the notes of the melody.

That’s where it began.

I started playing in bands in college way back in 1995. Never more than one at a time, but nearly every group was pretty active. I became a bandleader, my own songs and all, in 1997.

I didn’t play live music between probably 2000 and 2005, but I was still writing and releasing things. In 2004 I started a project called Shortwave Dahlia, and I’ve been on nonstop since then.

Well, until March of this year, when everything stopped. I still haven’t really taken a break, though.