| instruments on the recording, most of them poorly. My friends ate it up and I ended up playing it 50 million times in two years. It was a great party trick. / In college, I joined up with a cover band called Mad Buick. We made loads of money playing at fraternity parties and locals bars. I lost my voice every night, but I finally learned to play that damn guitar. The guitar was a Fender Stratocaster by then. / In 1991, my younger brother introduced me to Brian Joyce and Cary Goldstein, and we formed a band called The Well. We recorded parts of a concept album I'd written, also called The Well. We started to play clubs in my hometown and parties at Cornell, Lehigh, Penn State, and Yale. We found a bass player and changed our name to Pride's Crossing. We recorded some tunes. We sounded like Pink Floyd. We played a great set at Kenny's Castaways on Bleecker Street around Thanksgiving, 1992. We got a standing ovation. We broke up. I graduated from college. / I bummed around a lot. I worked a few day jobs. I had a semi-regular gig at the Ludlow Street Cafe in the winter of 1995. I played with a steady stream of musicians. We rehearsed a lot in a studio on 31st Street. We never played a show. / In 1996, I moved to Boston to record an album with members of Canine Guru. We put down four interesting, unfinished tracks. We talked a big game. We had no real game whatsoever. / I moved back home in the fall of 1997 to start premed classes at Columbia. I didn't play much for three years. / In the late summer of 2000, I enrolled at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. I started playing here and there. I hooked up with some classmates to form the Mae Maes, and we dished out classic rock at Tin Lizzie's a few times to great acclaim. / I traveled solo for six weeks out west, writing the bulk of the material that was to become Plain and Simple. I recorded it during the winter of 2001 and sent it off into the void. / Reunited with Brian Joyce and a full band, I played to a packed house (all paid-off friends) at Session 73 on the Upper East Side in April of 2003. Since then, I've been a regular on the circuit, performing at Sidewalk Cafe, The C-Note, CBGB's 313 Gallery, Kenny's Castaways, and DTUT. I love performing live, because it beats performing dead and you get free beer. / In February of 2004, I released my second CD, Songs Without Hooks. You can have a copy if you ask me nicely. / I almost forgot - I'm a doctor now, too. If you're ever in Lenox Hill Hospital and you need medical attention, ask me and I'll refer you to one of my colleagues. Really, you don't want me poking and prodding you. Unless you're into that sort of thing, in which case you know where to find me. E-mail me - it makes me feel loved. |
