Bio

It all started when I was a wee little one. way back. My family had a traveling quartet. We used to tour the countryside going from church to church. They were called the Revelators, singing good old Southern Gospel and selling albums. My mother was the solo act even from the time she was a kid (she made 45’s). As my brother Brock and I came on the scene, we were put up to a mic as kind of a side show act. I remember a lot of the trips around the country from Kindergarten on.

After we all got older and my grandfather passed away, the quartet ended. My mother began a working career as a singer songwriter mostly in worship and weddings. As I grew up I was around this and remember her passion vividly. Many called her “the Songbird of Heaven”. I would accompany her with voice and guitar on many occasions at weddings.

It was around this time I began an interest in Photography. I took all the photography classes in high school that were available. I learned a lot in the darkroom as well. I also worked in my aunts camera store in Mira Mesa, CA. I created all the enlargements as well as prints. Almost all of our enlargements were from the fighter pilots at Miramar Navel base or “Top Gun” (as we called it) as well as the local surf clothing factories.

I picked up my first guitar by breaking into my cousins place and stealing it. It was a piece of junk with action so high you could use it as a bow to shoot arrows. About 1988, after 3 years of being the “Prodigal Son”, I returned to reality. I also returned the guitar and bought a Honer 12 string, which I still have. I loved that guitar It taught me to really whale out percussive rhythms and tear my fingertips to shreds… literally.

Around this time I was living in a Volkswagen van and skateboarding around Needles California. One fine 130º day, I ate it big on my skateboard in front of some church. Now you must know, I had been going to church since before I was born – except for those three years. So I decided to go in and check it out.

Wow! Every word that came out of that preacher man was as if he knew who I was, where I was at, and what I was thinking to boot. I was floored. I decided I needed a King in my life and now is the time. I was transformed from the inside out. It was like being born all over again. I began to see the spiritual side of this life. My eye’s were opened.

It was almost immediately after that that I was asked to lead worship. Thus began the journey of a worship leader. It has been a long journey with mountain views and valley holes; Pristine rivers and crusty mold.

I then moved back with my parents and began leading worship (moving in the family anointing) at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in the sumer of 88. I traded in an old Gibson Amp for my Guild G45-NT and began writing a few songs here and there and playing them at various churches in different cities.

It was also around this time that I bought my first multi-track recorder. I took my hard earned cash and went to a music store and bought a Tascam Porta-two. Eventually I found a few friends and started recording/producing a few songs. Unfortunately the unit ran on cassette tapes at high speed. Because of the high-speed tape there was only enough time for a song or two. This went on until 1990 when I went to school in Colorado.

We formed a band called Scarlet Rain. We led worship for the high school and college age as well as the main Wednesday service. There were a few festivals I believe we played at. I remember one in particular. It was so hot… I remember only seeing stars in the middle of the day – I almost blacked out from the heat. I have video of that one. We opened for The Violet Burning a few times and Some other big band out of Albuquerque.

I recorded a few of our songs with the hopes of putting together a demo while gleaning what I could from the studio musicians there at Crossroads Church of Denver. At one point I went into the studio – The Time Capsule – to sing background vocals for a feller named Jules Riding of New Zealand – I am still waiting for a copy of that CD.

This went on until about 1995. Due to a family crisis, I ended up moving home in CA. for a few months. It turned out that I worked at the Anaheim Vineyard and was living in my truck. Living in a car again. Did it bother me? Nope. That was the highest high in my life I had ever been spiritually!

Ok… remember The Matrix movie? At the end, Neo is in the hallway and the enemy is closing in on him… remember? Well, at this point, all of a sudden he begins to have his eye’s opened. He begins to see the code of it all, or, if you will… He begins to move in The Spirit. One with The Spirit. Well, that is what it was like for me at this point. I was locked in to The Spirit and ready for anything. It was as if I was one with the creator of all things. My situation was nothing in light of my Gods Kingdom. I was his lover and he was mine, lost, found and changed into some new creature. It was beyond description.

At some point at the end of 1995 into 1996 I was asked to move to Moreno Valley to plant a Coffee House style church geared at college age people. The group of us, Sam Mizak, Eric and Misty Spriggs and Eddie Deam all went out. It was the coolest. It was called The Red Door. We met in the Moreno Valley Vineyard building on some night of the week.

At some point I was leading worship for three churches there. There was the Riverside Vineyard, Moreno Valley Vineyard and The Red Door. This was also a really good time of growth. It was at this place that the divine intersection of two lives became intertwined into one.

I met my precious enduring wife.

We got married up in the beautiful woods around Idyllwild, CA . Stepping back 3 months, I moved to Eugene, Oregon. We chose the Eugene Vineyard and I got a little nest ready. I flew back to CA the day before the wedding. The day after our wedding we moved everything to Eugene.

I began leading worship at the Vineyard and this went on until it closed it’s doors. We then needed to find a church and there were none to be found… at least ones that we would go to. What to do.

Well, we felt the King point us to Eugene Christian Fellowship; A tidy, Saddleback style church by the Gateway area. I began leading worship there for the college and Main service until we had our first born, which opened the door for us to move, on mothers day 2000, on to where we are now…

Life Bible Church, our home. Currently, I am involved in leading worship and running sound at the Wyatt and Alpine campus’. It is great because the musicians are always different week-to-week, even within the same band. I also create the weekly podcast of the service and put it into iTunes.

Currently, I am working on writing and recording some new songs (very slow going). I also am cleaning up the live audio recordings of a lot of prophetic (spontaneous) songs that have been coming to us lately.

I am pushing on towards building a business in photography by offering Landscape images as well as location photography for bands/musicians/artists, senior portraits and portraits.

Some of My Music Gear:

• *Guild, Taylor, Martin & Honer Acoustic guitars
• *Fender & Epiphone electric guitars
• *Ibanez bass
• *LR Baggs: iMix – iBeam – Acoustic DI
• *Line6 PODxt Pro
• *Boss stompboxes
• *Apple MainStage (my main live sound)
• *TC-Helicon VoiceLive
• *Fender and Mesa Boogie Amps
• *Korg Tuners
• *Alesis HD24XR
• *Motu Traveler
• *Apple Macbook Pros
• *Digidesign Pro Tools (not so much)
• *Apple Logic Pro (So Much)
• *Rode, AKG, Audix and Sure mics
• *Remo Djembe
• *Alesis SR16 Drum Machine

Most all of these items are controlled live via a Voodoo Labs Ground Control Pro