Birthplace

Philadelphia, PA

First Band(S)

The Limestones, Evil Seed, Wax, Baby Grand

First Concert

The Beatles - Baltimore Civic Center, August 1964

Best Concerts

The Beatles - Baltimore Civic Center, August 1964

The Who - The Electric Factory, May 1969

Bruce Springsteen - The Roxy Theater, October 1973

Top Ten Desert Island Albums

1. Revolver - The Beatles

2. Rubber Soul - The Beatles

3. Birds Of Fire - The Mahavishnu Orchestra

4. Autosalvage - Autosalvage

5. Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano - Claude Bolling & Jean-Pierre Rampal

6. Hermit Of Mink Hollow - Todd Rudgren

7. Feels Good To Me - Bill Bruford

8. Live At Leeds - The Who

9. Live Dead - The Grateful Dead

10. Music Of My Mind - Stevie Wonder

Runners-Up (!):

When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go - Billie Eilish

Dear Mr. Fantasy - Traffic

Rastaman Vibration - The Wailers

One Step Beyond - Madness

Blue - Joni Mitchell

Bach Sonatas and Partitas - Chris Thile

Favorite or Most Influential Song/Single

“I Want To Hold Your Hand” - The Beatles, just because it is

Favorite Hooters Gig and/or Tour Stop

Melbourne, Australia, when I forgot that we were halfway around the world.

Jena, Germany, on my birthday at a sold out open air when everything was perfect.

Favorite Road Food

Spargel (white asparagus) in Germany during the season.

My Back pages

I speak fluent Swedish and I’m learning Hungarian. I have a degree in Physics. I’ve forgotten all of it. As a child, I loved my microscope as well as my Ham Radio rig as a young teenager. The process makes me tick musically.

LIVE Gear

1958-1960 Les Paul Juniors, Vuorensaku T-Family guitars, Ola Söderström mandola, Fender Mandocaster, Yamaha saxophones, Hohner harmonicas and recorder, Kemper Amp Profiler, Kallenbach Mandolin and Mandola