Bernie

Love playing the Chapman stick and bass, as well as electronics.Fell in love with treated and psychedelic guitar. The Kinks “You Really Got Me”, Cream “Sunshine of Your Love” (all of Disraeli Gears), Hendrix “Foxy Lady”, and dare I say it Iron Butterflies “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida”.



Now take these hard, jagged, inventive sounds and mix it with my next love… Music that makes you want to get up and move. And at that time what better foot moving sound than that of Motown. James Brown, the Temptations, Aretha, The Four Tops, Smokey, and the Motown Catalogue.



Now because I liked creating music, quite often I learned the main parts or riffs of a song and then I would wander off and improvise. To me that was the most fascinating part of playing music. I enjoy the Risk of blowing it or pulling it off.