There is really too many bands to name that has influenced me over the years, I have named some of them in the favorite bands section of this page, Knowing I am a 80's child, I grew up listening to many hair bands such as Poison, Scorpions, White Lion, Whitesnake, Quet Riot, Kiss, Ozzie Osbourne, Great White, Britney Fox, Cinderella, and the list goes on, But have had some earlier influences such as Black Sabbath, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Mizfits, David Bowie, Pink Floyd and so on..... I can recall my very first inspiration when I was 8 years old, In my hometown of Corning Arkansas, We had many bands to come out to Wynn Park for july the 4th celebrations but there was one band I got fond of and his band name you would always hear people talk about them and that was J R Rogers & The Southern Knights, I use to raise a fit and begged my parents to take me to town so I could see them. That was my first clue on what I was destined for, It kept on going like that for years until I barely turned 16 and had lost my father and me and my mother moved to bono and my mother and my uncle decided that it was best for my uncle to live with us for awhile to help finish raising me, Well, Me and my mother started to get on each others nerves and my uncle had a crazy idea to get us out of the house for a bit and he took us to a place that people danced called Dixie Dance and from that moment that I walked through the door and looked up at the stage, I then knew and realized what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I talked to the leader of the band there and started out being a roadie then their drummer started teaching me some of the basics of drumming, His name was Billy Spence, That went on for a year or two then came my music mentor Larry Donn Gillihan, He finished teaching all that I needed to know about the basics of drummingand road to my career had opened up and that is pretty much all the inspiration that I have had and had seen a lot of musicians that I once knew come and go throughout the years and even lost my music mentor, my mother and a few others and still here I am rockin' it.

On July the 4th while I was still playing country music with Guitars & Cadillacs, I got to meet my first rock legend, Billy Joe Royal, He is very well known and famous for the song called 'Down In The Boondocks', I use to hear my mother sing that song all the time around our house, I consider myself very lucky to have got to know him on the short time that me and him got to talk, He was a kind hearted and well out spoken individual, We all was sadden by his passing of October the 7th of last year, ( Fly High B-J-R and R.I.P.

Since my very first stage performance at age 16, I have always been involved performing local country music but it was not at all the music that my heart followed, I have been with many bands over the years performing country music and southern rock and a bunch of rockabilly favorites, Last year was my last year of lying to my heart music wise and finally I got fed up and was devoted to make the change from country to hard rock because that is where my heart is and a local hard rock band known as Heavily Medicated was having rehearsal try outs because they was looking for a drummer that would stick with them and after a couple of weeks, I made the band roster and I had to work very hard to learn some of their songs, Actually about 40 songs at once and now we are scheduled for our first show this coming up April the 23rd in Paragould Arkansas at The Landmark Club among 3 other rock bands that will be performing that same night, We are pumped and ready to get back on stage again because it has been awhile for me of being on stage and the last time Heavily Medicated performed was new years eve so we are gonna see what we can do on this 30 minute show just to see if we need more work.