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Brian was that kid who started out on mom's pots and pans in the kitchen while listening to the radio. "Hearing music as a child excited me to no end. I felt I was already a part of the music and knew it was going to be my life." Born and raised in Sacremento Calif. Brian got his musical experience from playing drums to many styles of music and a wide variety of bands. School marching band, jazz band, swing choir, my buddy's house playing Chuck Berry & Yardbirds songs or at that house where the hippies jamm in the garage around the corner playing Led Zeppelin & the Who. At 18 he joined the U.S. Air Force and became a special vehicle mechanic working on flight line firetrucks & crash equipment. While station at Kedena AFB in Okinawa, Japan, Brian suffered a traumatic amputation to his right hand while working on emergency equipment. He was medically discharged with full honors and a 60% disability. Brian went back to playing drums having to learn a new approach now missing all the fingers on his right hand. "It made me really focus on my left hand and opened up the door to some unique percussion ideas." Brian began writing songs when a buddy who had brought this monstrous all in one self contained recording device called the Tascam SX1 to his home because his friend couldn’t figure out how to use it. "The instruction book looked like a fat dictionary!" After figuring out how to lay some basic tracks, Brian started flirting around with recording drumbeats and ideas he had created over the years. "I had this one pattern that just made you want to get up and move your feet. So I plunked out a simple bass line on the keyboard and added an old acoustic nylon string guitar, the words seem to just write themselves as I listened to the music and man I was hooked. Writing songs opened up a new creative outlet. I try to write original sounding uplifting songs. My hope is to get my music noticed by a label, artist or publisher looking for material. I also have instrumental versions of each song.