-started violin at age 7, through influence of parents who were hippies that
also listened to jazz and classical
-father played trumpet in Chicago style bands in the 70's and 80's
-had paid positions in classical orchestras from age 12 and up, and often
played cheesy dinner music for tourists in PEI, also for $$
-while getting more serious about playing violin (studied with a soloist from
the Tokyo Symphony), picked up the guitar as a teen and had a blast playing my
favorite songs at the time on it (60's shit LED ZEP! and Janis Joplin, as well
as the grunge stuff -Nirvana, Pixies, etc.
-busked in scenic downtown Moncton in high school, playing guit and singing
more hippie stuff and Indigo Girls type crap with a friend
-studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Quebec for 4 years, then got
tendinitis
-took a long break from playing to recover and to get BA, during which I
realized I wanted to rawk! No really I wanted to get out of confines of
sometimes anal and pretentious classical world and just get my freak on
-having successfully removed the stick from up my ass, I decided to depart
from classical ambitions (used to want to join an orchestra in Europe) and put
my info up on montrealmusicsource to see who would reply, and have been jamming
almost every night since!
Et voila...
