At 14 yrs old, I picked up my first guitar. I spent my first year or so being mentored by Joey Mazzola (the former guitarist from Sponge). In '86, joined by bassist Scott Hamel and drummer Doug Mitchell. We formed a band with the working name OSMIUM. We started out playing covers, everything metal in the day such as early Metallica, Maiden, Sabbath, Zep, etc, etc.... We quickly grew tired of playing covers and started writing our own stuff. We stayed together for about 10 years. We had various singers in and out but we always had difficulty working with singers because our music was quickly becoming more instrumental and progressive. As we played clubs in and about the Detroit area, the band's improvisational and conceptual style always received the best responses from our fans even though most of the local venues at the time was not hip to that sort of thing. Even with current atmosphere at the time the band did surprisingly well and developed a decent following. But as in all in life, things must come to an end. Feeling burned out, the band finally disbanded in the mid 90's.

Peace and Love.....

Jeff