Born: Atlanta, GA. Date: 9/30/66

Status: Married - with Cats!

Influences: Frank Gambale, Mike Stern, Rick Derringer, Joe Satriani

Former Bands: Craze, Detour, Moving Violation, Delta 9, Miller-McGovern Project, Fowl Play

Turn ons: Frosty cold beer, jamming all night long

Turn offs: Rude disrespectful people, Atlanta traffic!

I was 13 years old - a young bored adolescent, looking for something to do to " be cool". My brother played bass, and a little guitar, so I found myself with his guitar in hand many a night. I got my first electric at age 14 and began to take lessons at a local music store. I was picking up cover tunes off the radio just by playing by ear. By age 15, I was jamming with my very first band, Craze. At that point, I signed up for as many music theory classes as I could in order to get a deeper understanding of where all this great stuff came from. Craze did well in several high school talent shows and various parties and school functions. The sound of applause changed my life forever!

From that point on, I knew music was in my blood and soul. As college came around, I was totally engulfed in music, and decided to become a music major. I studied classical guitar at the University of Georgia under John Sutherland (man, what a player!), took keyboard training, theory, harmonization and sang and traveled the southeast with the University of Georgia Men's Glee Club. Unfortunately, after about 2 years, I began to lose the fire for classical.

I ended up dropping out at UGA and found my second love - auto restoration. I was out of school, and started to play with a band called Detour. I got a 4 track recorder and abused that machine like there was no tomorrow. Unbelievebly, it still works to this date! At that point I became a gearhead - guitars, effects, amplifiers, keyboards - anything I needed to do full blown studio recording. Over the next five years I composed some 40 songs with my next two bands... Moving Violation and Delta Nine. With these Bands I was able to tour the Atlanta circuit -Cotton Club, Masquerade, International Ballroom etc. Over time, I graduated to bigger and better equipment and was constantly refining my playing and recording skills.

After a while I found myself getting musically stale and looked for something else to do. I'd done a short lived coalition- The Miller-McGovern Project with jazz keyboardist-George Miller in the past. He approached me about a new project: Fowl Play. I agreed, thinking that it would open me up to a brand new style of playing - one with discipline, but with enough leeway to play anything I wanted to. I learned so much about improvisation and time from this experience that it stays with my playing to this date.

Soon, I married and moved to a new house. Like many Bands, Fowl Play went "South" for the winter and I found out that one of my neighbors played in a rock band - Cyan. I was approached and sat in on a couple of their jam sessions, had a blast, and was asked to join. There was a synergy that you could not put your finger on, yet you knew it was there.

As fate would have it, I was called by George to come in and lay down some trax for his new project FORCAST. I readily agreed, as playing with George had always been a gratifying experience. Thank's again my friend, as I really enjoy the material.

Tim