After all these years, I finally decided it was time to get a website. It is also a great opportunity to really reconnect with all the fans who have followed my career. There is much that was never written about my humble beginnings in the music business and I can now take this opportunity to tell the story.
It was 1988-89 that my musical career had taken that giant step to the big-time. When it happened it was faster than I could ever imagine. But what I want to let you know is how Sloooow the process was to getting there.
I started playing in clubs when I was 16 years old. I was not old enough to perform in a club yet but that never stopped me. I was playing 3-4 nights a week and we would be doing 4-5 sets per night. That's a lot of songs to memorize. Everyone in my band was much older than I. They were already out of high school yet I was just starting. I never had a hard time connecting with them or the audience in spite of the age difference.
Somehow by the grace of God, I was given a natural ability to sing. I never knew what I was doing but when I opened my mouth, it just came out right. In the early stages of my career I was able able to sing Led Zepplin songs with such ease, that we ended up doing the whole first record. This was before tribute bands were even popular. The band was called HOOKA (yes like the pipe) In spite of the name, I was never into smoking the stuff, not that I did not try. It just never did anything creative for me.
01. Don'T Start Me Up
02. Pleasure And Pain
03. Brighter Day
04. Where Does Love Go When It'S Gone
05. The Warden
06. Katie
07. Best Girl
08. Labour Of Love
09. Mother Night
10. Cold Day In Hell
11. Love Shouldn'Ve Brought You Home
12. Candle in The Window
13. Woman Enough
14. After All
15. Love has No Mercy
16. Demons Down (Original Demo)
17. Acoustic Medley (Live at The Gods 95)
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