The beging of Jetboy i remember so well when fernie and i met we were so into just starting a band to play. As things came together and we had a band (Jetboy) it all just started to go forward, it kinda went all bye it's self now looking back. We started to open for local bands and soon we were out drawing them with crowds, then more big acts. Soon we were able to sell out a 500 seat club ourselves.

After that we felt we needed to get LA into us and that's were it all started to take off. We got a manager and she had us working all the time and it lead to our deal with Elektra. The first Jetboy album "Feel The Shake" was a very strange but great time looking back just because we got a big record deal after playing barely 2 years and quickly moved to LA.

Shortly after we fired Todd (due to personal reasons) and hired Sam Yaffa of Hanoi Rocks and soon we were working at the Record Plant with producer Tom Allom. Everything happened so fast it was hard to keep focused and even the label at the time which was Elektra was confusing us? but all in all i think we did a great record but it was alot different then what was expected from us to the people/fans who had been watching the band from the beginning years. We were known as a more street punk glam rock band and our album was a very produced pop flavored radio ready rock album, but that was due to growing as a band and with Sam Yaffa he added a big step for us as in being a solid tight unit more professional.

Only two songs from our early days were on the album "Fire In My Heart" and "Bad Disease". Everything else was written after moving to LA. Some of my fond memories doing that album was 1. Next do or in the opposite studio was Rod Stewart recording "Out Of Order" and Jim Cregan used my White Falcoln on the song "Forever Young" and i still have the note he left on my guitar after he used it saying great guitar thank you. I also remember Brian May from Queen making a nice comment about the song "Hard Climb" as he was also next door to us doing some work. But also just the fact of working with Tom Allom who did all the big Judas Priest records and the first Def Leppard album was great as well. I had a great time doing that record and came along way as a player. There were very good spirits within the band at that time

Recording the damnednation album was alot different, first we were in a very different frame of mind as a band having already toured and living with each other for along time we became a little edgy toward each other and a bit bitter that we did not sell a million copies of "Feel The Shake". Westarted writing with outside writers due to management and the label wanting to see what we came up with. We were in the studio doing demos every other week as well as looking for a producer.

We meet with Duane Baron & John Purdell who worked with Motley Crue, Poison, La Guns and many more. They really understood where we were coming from and thought we had great songs and were great players and wanted to do the record. As a band we had come so far and "Damnednation" i feel really s howed it, i am still very proud of that record and had the best time ever doing it. I got very into slide guitar and acoustic stuff and we really did a great record and it's a shame that things did not happen for us.

Looking back from how we were when we started it is amazing to me how you can grow as a band if all the pieces are right. Things were falling appart before we even finished that record not even knowing it. About a month before it's release Sam quit the band to join Mike Monroe and i think that really killed the magic we had. We moved on and replaced him and toured for a few months and got back home to the news of MCA dropping the band. After that we tried to continue and did for a year or so but it was over, but so was Rock n Roll! Seattle music was born and killed it off! But it was time for a change, and change is good.

My stand out memories during that album was more just being pushed by Duane & John to play well and have great songs, i learned the most i ever have in the studio working with them, it was all about work and doing a great album, no bullshiting around. I remember when Mike Monroe came down to play sax on the song Rock N Roller, that was cool. Other than that it was just doing a great record.

I released three other Jetboy cd's on my own thru two small labels, the first one was "A Day In The Glamourous Life" on Perris Records which were all the songs we had written and played up till when we got signed to Elektra. We did 17 songs in a 24 hour lock out in Hollywood and it came out excellent. 12 years after we did that i thought i'd get it out to the people who always wanted to here those songs and it is what we should have released then looking back, but better late than never.

The second release i did was "Make Some More Noise" this was the unreleased songs and demos from the in between era of the first and second album. Some are songs that never made it on "Damnednation" and one from that got pulled of "Feel The Shake".

The last one was released on Cleopatra Records "Lost & Found" this is a compilation of songs from each Jetboy era. Some of which were written after being dropped from MCA trying to save the sinking ship.

All three of these are great to me and i just wanted to let people hear what was left for the fans who supported us thru the years. Some people new some of these songs and some had never been heard till the release. I still get people all the time telling me how great and fun it was seeing and listening to Jetboy. I'm the same way as a fan of many bands if there is music i have not heard from a band i love i would buy it The seven years i did with Jetboy were good and bad but thats Rock N Roll and i would not change it for anything.

This takes us up to the band Mindzone which is something that i really do not think very much of. Mick, Fernie and i were trying to jump on the what's hot wagon and it went nowhere. We formed in 1993 and ended in 1996.

The best thing that came out of Mindzone was me meeting Mike Butler and starting American Heartbreak with him! Mike and i were both hungry to get back to our real roots of good ol' Rock N Roll and we are now four years into a great ride with two cd's out and one on the JVC label in Japan and alot of great shows and songs along the way, with many, many more to come.

As for AH this is a great Rock N Roll Band with a big future. I believe we have that magic that makes a good band and it's all about the right people/line-up and we have it. Things are very different now with music in general from when i started playing but i see Rock n Roll making it's way back to the top and AH leading the way with others such as Backyard Babies, Ginger, Tsar, Bubble and many more! Bon Scott said it best "It's A Long Way To The Top If You Wanna Rock N Roll"