RANDOM FACTS

 

RANDOM FACTS

• I once untied Iggy Pop’s shoes in Tijuana.

• I knew the original Air Bud.

• I appeared as a "heavy metal musician" singing about the Light & Color on Bill Nye The Science Guy.

• My band played right before Nirvana at their first-ever show on a stage at The Community World Theater.

• I spent my honeymoon in the same suite in Bali that Bowie spent his honeymoon in Bali.

• The house I owned was Diane Lane’s home in the horror movie called Untraceable. Spoiler…she killed the bad guy in the basement.

• My grandparents owned The Java Jive (a building shaped like a two story coffee pot, featured in movies (one with Keanu Reeves & River Phoenix, and also Say Anything) in Tacoma.

• I've played onstage at The Gorge in George, Washington, opening for The Cure.

• In school I was voted “Best Artist”, "Person You'd Most like to Be Stranded on a Desert Island With", and “Most Argumentative” although I didn’t agree with that one.

• I am related to Herschel Walker and the Jacuzzi family (by marriage).

• I’ve been Best Man at 4.5 weddings.

• I've been featured in Guitar Player Magazine

• I’ve taken off and landed an airplane by myself.

• I served a Republican Vice President of the USA a latte while the secret service eyeballed me to make sure I didn’t put a booger in it. In retrospect I should have at least scalded the milk.

• I was Captain of the Football Team at two different schools.

• I peed next to Bill Gates in a movie theater (in the bathroom urinals, not IN the theater). Unrelated, he has reviewed design work that I made at Microsoft. Jeff Bezos has also reviewed my design work at Amazon.

• I’m an advance scuba diver and I’ve had my air tank malfunction 120ft below the surface of The Blue Hole while surrounded by sharks.

• My great, great, great grandparents were a S'Klallam Native and a historic first settler and saloon owner who fell in love on the shores of Port Townsend in Washington State.