Paul, Born in Berkley California and grew up in Stockton, CA. I had known that I wanted to be a drummer since age 10. It was when I heard Peter Criss and his drum solo on 100,000 years on Kiss Alive. When I was 15 I got a job baggin' groceries and bought my first drum set. I played in a cover band in high school. My influences at the time were Less Binks Judas Priest,
Queensryche, and of course Bonham and Neil Peart. I took about a 13 year hiatus's but never lost the desire to play. During those years I expanded my listening taste to Blues Rock, Jazz and some good old Southern Rock . For the past five years or so I've been playing with various local musicians covering tunes from AC/DC to Zeppelin and of course Artimus Pyle & Lynyrd Skynyrd. I'm pretty much self taught, but I have had the privilege of taking a few lessons from a great drummer from San Francisco, Brian McCarthy, and just recently studied with drummer extraordinaire, Jimmy De Grasso. I play a Tama Star Classic Maple kit and primarily use Zildjian cymbals
