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I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing.

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.