I've been extremely fortunate to be surrounded by very talented, creative people, without whom I would never have been able to be involved with music at all.

I've been in a small number of bands thus far in my life, and I can't foresee a time that I won't be recording music, at least on some level.

It started with my good friend Bob Burns.  Bob is his own band and after recording several albums on his own, he invited me to write a song with him. That song was "Paradise World" and it appeared on his ZOO STORY album, "CHINA."  From there we formed a band called DIVORCE GUN and we still find time to record DG songs to this day. The self-titled DG album came out in February 1995 and the second, "Schmorgus Bored," is done and awaiting some form of release. I should also mention that our first foray into "music" was a very short-lived punk band called THE UPHOLSTERED URINALS back when were both in college.  Also, the third Divorce Gun album is due out in late 2009.

Bob and I also formed an acoustic KISS tribute band called ACOUS-KISS.  Guitarist Steve Trabilsy and a bassist named Colin rounded out that endeavor.  We rehearsed a lot but never performed live.

While writing more Divorce Gun songs in the later 1990's, I approached my then-friend, guitarist Chris Carlson about helping out and maybe even joining the band. Instead Chris and I became a brand new band and added our mutual friend Jason Axtolis on bass. We were referred to drummer Will Garrison and he completed our line-up. We were called CRASH PALACE, but after our first 2 live shows we found there already was a band with that name so we became SERPENT CROWN.  SC broke-up live, on stage in May, 2002.

After that I, very briefly, joined an 80's cover band called FICTITIOUS, but the demise of SC was too fresh a memory and I wound up parting ways with them a few months into it, never having played outside of the rehearsal basement.

In 2007, I was asked to help bring a fictional heavy metal band to life from the pages of the HACK/SLASH comic book.  H/S creator Tim Seeley came up with a villainous band that sold their souls to the devil for fame. H/S heroes Cassie Hack and Vlad were sent to Hell to battle the band. In an effort to make the book more fun for everyone, Tim decided to make real songs for the fake band and he asked Crank! to help him out. Crank! in turn asked me and with the help of other musicians Mike Norton, Nick Grobe and Brian Day, ACID WASHED was born.

I have also set-up a MySpace page for all of these musical endeavors.  Only 6 songs are on it at a time but I think that gets the point across.  BROWITZER

As for the future, let's hope it's a musical one!