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Biography

Over the last year, I've started writing again: a few record reviews, band bios and a couple of magazine articles.

I've worked as a manager (Drivin N Cryin when they were really big down South), a music publisher, a tour manager, a Geffen/DGC A&R man in the 90s (Black Lab, Aimee Mann, Hole, Girls Against Boys, Lisa Loeb & Guns N' Roses) and as the manager of the Kurt Cobain catalog (the "Journals" book, the "You Know You're Right" single and accompanying compilation and a bunch of new t-shirts).

Now I'm producing records: Milburn's new single on Free Construction/Mercury, the forthcoming Young Offenders Institute record, Ryan Adams' always controversial "ROCKNROLL," two versions of Courtney Love's "America's Sweetheart" (I vote for the first, unreleased recording) and Family Force 5's upcoming debut for Maverick, "Business in Front...Party in the Back."

I'm developing & producing several young bands, including the Dirty Sweet from San Diego and Nashville's Taylor Sorensen & the Trigger Code.

Like a lot of people I grew up with in the business, I'm doing a lot of different things to make a living.

Interests

the infinite wisdom of 1st & 3rd graders, Stones, Zeppelin, Avengers (the band), Big Star, Skynyrd, Spiritualized, Michael Powell & "The Red Shoes," any random episode of Law & Order, William Eggleston, George Nelson, Pops Staples, the 1893 Columbian Exposition, "The Crying of Lot 49," Lóteria Mexican at the LA Farmers Market, Robot Chicken, "Infinite Jest," the wisdom of Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell, Steve Wynn & the Dream Syndicate, Braves & Red Sox (in our lifetimes), Crimson Tide football, Crimson ice hockey, "Dazed & Confused," "Light in August," Sand Mountain Alabama, Otis Clay, magnetic recording tape, Robert Caro's "The Power Broker," girls who make mix tapes, Echo & the Bunnymen, Little 5 Points, Minus Zero & Stand Out Records in London, "The Last Gentleman," Stratosphere Sound in NYC, most anything Alan McGee has to say, the Gun Club, Coca-Cola Zero, all recordings of "The Dark End of the Street," moving towards the light.