Drum technician; also general backline including guitars, electronics, computer equipment (Mac and PC), stage management, tour operations, personal security and construction (including carpentry, electrics and welding).

TOURS:

SKINNY PUPPY 
(with Tweaker on U.S. dates) 
-- SUMMER 2004
Stage manager, guitar tech and drum tech for seven week US and Europe tour. Set up and maintained the acoustic kit with Roland SPD 11 trigger pads and a Roland MC-505 theramin for Justin Bennett. I have to admit that I use the term "guitar tech" loosely, as I usually don't do things with strings, and I really didn't do much maintenance for the guitars themselves (just a nice rub-down and a shiatsu after the show), but I did set up the cabinets/pedals every day and changed a cable or two mid-show a couple of times. Mostly, I was just there for William Morrison, guitar player (also videographer for SP), to give a little stink-eye to when things seemed to be going poorly. Or something.

MINDLESS SELF-INDULGENCE 
(supporting Clutch and System of a Down)
-- WINTER 2002
Backline tech for four-week national tour. Includes setting up and maintaining an acoustic drum kit, guitars and bass and a DAT machine. And being a general multi-purpose human.

PREACHING TO THE PERVERTED 
(Pigface/Gravity Kills/Godhead)
-- FALL 2001
Drum tech for all drummers for 6 week national tour. Duties included setting up and maintaining two standard kits, one for Martin Atkins, and the second for the other three drummers, Leanne Murray (Pigface), Brad Booker (Gravity Kills) and Tom Zagorski (Godhead), using three different consecutive setups. Nine days of pre-production, including repairs and set construction, then 39 shows in a row with no days off (except once, accidentally, when a show was cancelled last-minute). The last show was at the Vic Theatre in Chicago three days before Christmas and, for the finale, featured seven full kits plus the usual Pigface mayhem. In other words, an total asskicker of a tour. But...I...MADE...IT!!! Which rules.

ohGr -- SUMMER 2001
Drum tech and stage manager for 7 week national tour. Duties included setting up and maintaining cEvin Key's Drumasaurus: 9' x 9' riser with a monster hardware rack, acoustic drums and cymbals, electronics including Roland TD-7 pads, a Korg Wave drum and Pearl Syncussion pads, two big ol' coffins full of effects and the makings of his monitor system, including a Mackie mixer, 2 wedges and a subwoofer cabinet. Promoted to stage manager a few dates into the tour; from that point on, we were on time, DAMMIT. Occasional personal and stage security (ask me about my very effective low-key approach).

COACHELLA MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL -- SPRING 2001
Transportation and gear wrangling. Liberated Kruder and Dorfmeister's lighting and AV gear from LAX customs, talked East End slang with Roni Size and Reprazent, drove GangStarr's manager to sleep, contained and moved the Jane's Addiction dancers, and enjoyed the HECK out of that nice fresh polo field turf-- no dust!!!

FORTRESS STUDIOS LTD. (London, UK) -- WINTER - SUMMER 1998
Drum and backline tech for various local London shows for bands including Asian Dub Foundation, Pig, Sniper, Pulkas, Beta Band, The Primrose. Frequent driver of two different right-side-drive vans (Mercedes 410 diesel -- read "UPS-truck-size" -- and a Ford Transit) on the left side of the road, in and out of London, with no major incidents-- even with the piss-poor drivers' education offered in America. General "tape-op" and grunt around the studio.

THE WARM JETS (London, UK) -- SUMMER 1998
Drum tech and backline tech for 3 week English and European festival tour. Included setting up and maintaining an acoustic kit, as well as maintaining keyboards and samplers. Did the mudsuck at Glastonbury-- I only left the top lounge of the bus for catering and the show. Favorite part about Glastonbury: watching the double-decker Euro tour busses list into the axle-deep mud of the backstage field, and watching the local farmers on massive tractors pull them out. Least favorite: each year, one or two kids disappear into the mud and drown cause they're 'off their tits' and unable to stay upright. Also, a couple of people got Mad Cow disease from getting the mud in their mouths the previous year. Because it's held in an turd-filled cow pasture during South England's rainy season, it has to be the dirtiest festival ever.

KMFDM -- FALL 1997
Drum tech for 8 week national tour. Included setting up and maintaining Servo's acoustic and electronic kit with Akai 3000, Kurtzweil K2000, Alessis D4, as well as taking a breather after Chemlab. Also was the alpha monkey of the backline pack in the semi. Occasional personal and stage security (especially in Detroit!).

CHEMLAB (supporting GWAR) -- SPRING 1997
Drum and general backline tech, plus tour management for 6 week national tour. Included setting up and maintaining Servo's acoustic kit with triggers and sampler. Also maintained various guitar, bass and MIDI gear, chased musicians away from ugly girls, obtained cocktails for the band, and took GWAR to the Grand Canyon in our van so they could get naked and horrify tourists.

CHEMLAB -- FALL 1996
Drum and general backline tech, plus tour management for 3 week American tour. Included setting up and maintaining Servo's acoustic kit with triggers and sampler. Also maintained various guitar, bass and MIDI gear, and my sanity. Does anyone know that bastard Digger?

CHEMLAB (supporting Sister Machine Gun) -- SUMMER 1996
Drum and general backline tech, plus tour management for 6 week national tour. Included setting up and maintaining Servo's acoustic kit with triggers and sampler. Also maintained various guitar, bass and MIDI gear, marshalled the merch guy, and kept hotel rooms intact.

OTHER SKILLS, POSTS, JOBS, EXPERIENCE AND BAD HABITS:

MOTORCYCLE MESSENGER (Quicksilver, Silver Bullet) -- 1987 - 1991
Insane conveyor of packages of ANY SIZE, rain or sleet or dark of night. Distance covered: 200+ miles a day. Breaker of any possible vehicular codes, and even a couple of bones. Equipment consisted of a 1983 Sukuki GS750E, Arai helmet, Alpine Star motocross boots, Zo bag, Motorola radio, a sturdy liver and an extra helping of guts. Not sure where the brain was during all of this.

YARD BOSS -- Plunder Industries "Life-Size Game of Mousetrap," Burning Man 1996
The Life-Size Game of Mousetrap was a human-sized game based on the favorite board game. Instead of ball bearings, bowling balls were used. The finished assembly took up about 1000 sq. feet, and included hundereds of feet of elevated wire "gutter," a 22-foot catapult and an 18-foot tower mechanism which hoisted up piano harps. These harps would be released by the final trajectory of the bowling ball in action, and would then smash whatever the audience had requested to be the target. Assisted in the building and assembly in the San Francisco Plunder yard, including welding, cutting and avoiding getting lit on fire by their very shabby gas lines. Marshalled the troops on-site in the Black Rock Desert (both SanFran art kids and local Gerlach desert rats) to assemble the Mousetrap for the event, as well a television film crew. This was difficult, as it was Burning Man, and not a few people were a bit out to lunch and unfocused. However, the piece came up on time with no injuries, despite one desert rat's insistence on only wearing shorts and tube socks on-site. I also did all of the lighting for the evening event using found fixtures and wire, Christmas lights and a generator. As an added attraction on the night of the Burn, Flamethrower Bowling was added. A plywood ramp was assembled with rudimentary gutters and human ball-return, and then everything -- lane, ball, pins, whatever -- was lit on fire during play. Dangerous? Nah...

DOMINATRIX -- Berlin Underground, NYC -- 1997
Self-explanatory, pretty much. Wearing suggestive clothing, I tied men up, spanked, whipped, flogged, beat, mortified, and otherwise denigrated grown men for a lot of money. It was a sociological experiment, what can I say? Besides "No, I won't do it to you." But watch it, pal...

WEB DESIGNER, ART DIRECTOR, CREATIVE DIRECTOR (various) -- 1993 - 2001
Yes, I have a "real" job sometimes, but not if I can help it. I seem to be able to abuse my "real" career to no end while I run off on tour on less than a moment's notice. But that's just becuase I collect brand names and make a rep do all of the foraging for clients. If you really want to see my work, click here.

ALSO... PHOTOGRAPHY, WELDING, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRICAL, SMALL ENGINE REPAIR, ART SLAVE, GLASS CONSTRUCTION ART, MASSAGE, REIKI, SEWING, AND I MAKE A MEAN CHICKEN POT PIE FROM SCRATCH.

More photos soon... my scanner is busted

More photos soon... my scanner is busted