The Years In Between::

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Below is a discography of the many bands I have played in over the years to present time.

Ist band performance 10 years old 1961
instrument- Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar
gig- a 50 guitar orchestra student recital. The entire symphony consisted of guitars mostly Lap style!

Ist band-
"Just Us" 5 piece 1965 role - Lead singer/ harmonica
1st gig High school graduation- 300 screaming girls all thinking we were the Beatles! Worked for me- 14 years old.
2nd gig/ KYA extravaganza sharing the stage with Mike Shrieves' early version of "SANTANA" minus Carlos (Holy Cross High School - Mountain View, CA - 1965).

2nd band

" The Lighthouse " 5 piece 1966 role- Drummer/singer High point - Opening for Big brother, Quicksilver , Moby Grape, and Buffalo Springfield in the same show at the Avalon Ballroom.
* the Lead guitarist from that band , Jim Rafferty , died of liver failure a few years ago after fighting an alcohol/ heroin habit most of his life. R.I.P. He was a great Rock guitarist and my best school chum from grade school.

3rd band -
" Nightwings " 8 piece "art' band 1971 role Lead/rhythm guitar/vocals
a la "Tosca meets Yes" fronted by Michael Silversher who founded Northern Calif. Songwriters Assoc. and one of the first in the country. Michael now has more than 80 songs published through Walt Disney!

Michael and I were songwriting partners in high school and later hooked up to form this band.

1971-73
Between 71-73 was my "Christian" period where I went Pentacostal for a year and wrote a ton of country gospel / folk tunes while living up on the Wenatchee River in Wash. state. I wrote" Eating Dust and Wanderlust" during this period , a non- religious ballad of lost love. I didn't play it for 20 years ,then rediscovered it on an old tape and re-recorded it in Austin in 2000. It ended up on my Austin released C.D. "Twelve Degrees of the Heart". It's the only cut from the C.D that local KSGR D.J. Jody Denberg would play , but it saw repeated spins there in 2001.

* 1974-76 worked solo, acoustic, sharing gigs with John Lee Hooker at the Antique Resturant Palo Alto, also played twice for Neil Young in my audience and later again in 1997. Neil has a rare copy of my first 45 single which features ex Peter Rowan bassist Jerry Logan on Dobro

Band 5 -
College big bands A+B 22 piece 1978 role -guitarist
High point gig 3 hour concert for 900 people backing up 70's legendary alto sax man Ritchie Cole. The "White Charlie Parker"
Unbelievable player! If you don't believe me -go find the New York sessions with "Dorothy's Den"

Band 6 -
"Chapel Perilous" a 5 piece Be-Bop band 1978. This was a band I put together with one of my guitar students , Neil Civjian, and two other fledgling jazzers , pianist Michael lloyd, and bassist Charlie. We played for about 8 months before I left the group, disgruntled over the slow progress and apparant fear of success, pervasive among some of the members.

Band 7
Paul Price's Society Orchestra- A13 piece "society" band that only played period music from 1898 to 1930 It consisted of trap drums , stand up piano with violins , classical "unamplified" rhythm guitar and reeds and horns. We only played "society" gigs at places like"San Francisco Memorial Aud .and such.

Band 8
Blue Velvet Sound a 22 piece big band. 1978-80 A working "rehearsal band, I took over for a keyboard player who was never replaced, so I was essentially forced to read piano block chord charts and transpose for guitar. The best education I ever had. It was fronted by bassist John Ward { conductor who then played for 5 years with Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Cleo Laine. We once did a gig at San francisco's Galleria with Stripper legend Carol Doda for a sit down dinner for 3,000 campaign conventioners!. She stripped all the way down to only her high heels while the band scarfed food from the buffet.

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