I was asked to join the Nuclear Family shortly after my departure from The Breakups. My good friend Thomas Becker had been playing with Justin Roelofs and Tyler French for about a year and they had just released a full-length CD, Got Ripped Off, on Manic, a local label that also put out records for […]
This was the first legit band I was in. The KC music scene in the mid-’90s was split between punk rock (The Breakups, Sex Offenders, 110 Volts) and, for lack of a better term, art rock (Boys Life, Secular Theme, Giants Chair). Those who know me now are frequently surprised to learn that despite my […]