A Little Bit About Mike and the Music

Who's This Guy Mike?

Mike is a regular guy, happily married, living currently in Olympia, Washington, USA. That's the capital of Washington State.

Besides music, his obsessions and interests include reading and just about anything to do with boats.

Interests evolve. In earlier times he's been a flight instructor, a computer applications trainer, a sailor, well, just all manner of stuff.

How Mike Got Started in Music

At age 6 or 7, one of Mike's sisters had a ukulele. He liked to mess around with it. Experiments led to a number of simple melodies and ukulele power chords.

At the age of 12, Mike's dad, a "strummin' man," one evening sat Mike down and showed him the G major, C major, and D major chords, ordering him to practice and perform them the next day. After he'd demonstrated these chords, and performing about four fifths of "Hey Jude," his dad showed him the A minor and E major chords. That was the end of Mik's "formal" training, but he has played some kind of a guitar every day since then. In 1980, Mike took 2 months off from playing, (he did keep singing however) due to a work commitment at age 18 (Navy boot camp). He hasn't missed many days since then.

Who Performs All The Music?

Mike performs all of the guitars, the bass guitars, the percussion, and nearly all of the lead and backing vocals. His friend Margi has helped out with the vocals on some of backing tracks (check out Birds and Landslide under the "Covers" section.) Both Margi and her husband Mike helped with the vocals on Mike's original tune, In The End (Pt. 2), Margi's mezzo-sorprano offering believability to Mike's Angel Choir, and husband Mike lending his authoritative-sounding baritone voice, filling out the Monk Chorus.

Otherwise, other than where credited, Mike does all of the parts of the songs himself.

Mike sincerely hopes you enjoy listening to his music, which has been trapped inside of him for some time, and has only recently started to get out.