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It's been a long and winding road. As an undergrad I enjoyed playing in bands including "We the Living" and "The Wooley Thumpers". We played every downtown bar and union building on campus, plus Rec Hall where The Thumpers opened for Janis Joplin! After graduation, I studied Dentistry at Tufts until I was offered a recording contract. I left and signed with the Robert Stigwood Organization, managers of Eric Clapton and the Bee Gees. That became an "almost famous" story and in Fall of '71 I returned to PSU for grad studies in Communication. I kept playing music in Central PA and then in '78 auditioned for the Broadway show "Beatlemania". I was chosen to play George on a Far East tour, but that tour never happened. The next year, I became one of the four members of a band called "The Rockets" which then became "Backseat Van Gogh" playing five shows a week in the State College bars including The Phyrst, The Saloon, and The Scorpion. I don't know if it's possible to have much more fun than we had in that band. Shortly after BVG broke up, I left town and began a career of writing, directing and producing video programs which I continue to do 25 years later. I still write, play, and record my own songs and in '99 was awarded Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. I recently completed a musical play for kids and I'm currently putting together a CD of my own songs. Rock on!