I feel truly blessed to make my living playing music. I’ve been playing guitar for almost 20 years and bass for 5. I currently tour full time on bass with The Mother Truckers and play guitar for Shandon Sahm, son of Texas music legend Doug Sahm. I’ve played from New York to Los Angeles to Seattle and have been active Austin’s Red River music community since the fall 2000. In addition to the Mother Truckers (Funzalo) and Shandon Sahm (Killing Bird), I have recorded and/or toured with Southern Gun Culture (Arclight/Monotremata), the Ryan Bales Band, Velvet Brick (Mesa) and the Mark McKinney Band, as well as my own project Ironclad .
In my spare time I build custom roadcases and pedalboards , photograph bands and perform bizarre scientific experiments on effects pedals and other gear.
My guitar influences are Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Ace Frehley and the mighty Joe Walsh. Bass influences are Cliff Burton, Geezer Butler and John Paul Jones.
For the gearheads:
Guitar rig: slightly modded 1981 JCM800 2203, stock Marshall top cab, Marhsall bottom cab with 2 G-75’s/2 V30’s. Boss TU-2, modded Boss Blues Driver, EA Tremolo I built, modded Phase 90, modded Crybaby. Main guitars: 1979 Ibanez Iceman w/57 Classic + SD Custom 5, 1995 Gibson Les Paul Studio w/57 Classic + Rio Grande BBQ. All amp/pedal/guitar modifications done by yours truly.
Bass rig: 1978 Ampeg SVT or early 90’s Ampeg SVT-II. Ampeg Isovent cab (slant cab w/two 10’s and two 15’s). Boss TU-2, modded Big Muff Pi I built, modded Phase 90, stock Bass Crybaby. Main basses: 2002 USA Fender Precision Bass w/SD Quarter pounder, 1995 MIM Fender Precision Bass w/modded electronics and stock Fender pickup from the other bass. All pedal/guitar modifications done by yours truly.
Hey it was good to see you at SXSW. Now that the evil SXSW "Security" volunteers are gone, you can take pictures again (: Split Hoof is playing Saturday night - hope to see you there. Jen
