Lead/Rhythm Guitars, Backup/Lead Vocals     I don’t know where to start.   When I was young I really enjoyed music.  I think the bug bit me especially hard in 1984.  That was the first year I ever heard Stevie Ray Vaughan.  The song was “Couldn’t Stand the Weather.”  I always said “I’m gonna learn how to play guitar.”   Then in 1989 I made good on that promise.  My mom bought my first guitar.  It was a red Telecaster copy made by Tanara.  I learned all the basics on the piece o’ crap.  I put the thing down that same year.  At that point in my life I guess I just didn’t have the motivation.   I picked up the guitar again in 1992.  I started practicing with a vengence.   I got well enough to play in a punk band called Bleeding Fetus in 1993.  It’s Punk what do you expect. We had the priviledge to play Ice Stock in Anarctica.  I was in the Navy at the time.  After a short period of time I moved on to bigger and better things.  While with Bleeding Fetus I was using an Ibanez EX 270 that ended up jumping out a two-story window.  It was very unhappy.   That same day I went down to Heck’s Music Shop in Ventura California and purchased a fiesta red Fender Stratocaster.  That was my first real guitar.  I played off and on with a few bands in the Ventura area where I met a lot of great musicians.  And took a lot of their licks.     In 1995 I moved back to Albuquerque New Mexico.   I was in a rut looking for a band to play with so I decided to go to college.  Where else can you find a bunch of out of work musicians?  That’s where I met the now formed Vincent Black Shadows.  Of course like most bands we had a few changes along the way.  We changed a guitar player a few singers and about 5 pair of main speakers.  Marty, the drummer, and I also drifted in and out of the band playing with a local guitar player and singer Mark LaCava.  Who I also borrowed quite a few licks from.  Ultimately we ended up staying with the Vincent Balck Shadows and have been going strong for four years.  I also have gained a few guitars along the way.  My number 1 is a custom shop strat that my girlfriend bought me.  And on special occasions I will break out my 1970 Les Paul when the mood is right. The current line up we have now is Jim Connors on guitar and vocals, Joe ergish on bass and backup, Marty Callahan on drums and backup, and me on guitar and vocals.  I don’t see this changing anytime soon.   “Eat your music it’s good for ya.”      View The Reverend's Equipment List