Nick's Biography

Nick's Biography

Performing Experience:
Aftershock
Hired Guns
Mark Burkert/John Doman
Regina Christian
Andrea Lauren
Frontiers
Audio Mob
New Facade
Pierre & Deborah
Beat Clinic
Mimi & the Scream
Drexel Jazz Ensemble
Cruz
Cygnus X-1
Xperience

Top Ten Gigs Played:
Tower Theatre opening for Styx (w/Audio Mob 4/91 - It was a Spinal Tap night!)
The Academy of Music (w/Andrea Lauren opening for The Temptations & Delfonics)
CBGB's NYC (w/Audio Mob) “This ain’t no Mudd Club…”
Chestnut Cabaret (w/Audio Mob, also opened for Kix)
23 East Cabaret (w/Audio Mob, guest appearances w/Dynagroove)
The Cell Block (w/Audio Mob, also opened for Greg Howe)
1986 Swarthmore Music Guitar Contest winner at Widener University (bass)
Lambertville Shad Festival (w/Aftershock, since 1996)
Folsom Field (w/Pierre & Deborah and Scott Hathaway on guitar)
Mandell Theatre- Drexel University (w/Jazz Ensemble)

Recording Experience:
IVRStudios.com
Sigma Sound
Chestnut Sound
Third Story Studios
East Side Studios

Musical Biography:
Born and raised in the Philly area, my first instrument was a Mickey Mouse drum set (literally) that I got for Christmas when I was 6 or 7. I tried to learn "Can't Get Enough" by Bad Company and broke the snare drum shortly thereafter. I started on bass at 8 taking lessons from my uncle, who showed me the I-IV-V progression. Around 11, took accordion lessons for a quite a few months. Around 9th grade I took bass lessons from Dave Tocar at Lynne Music, then started jamming with my friend who played drums on the cardboard boxes I had set up in my basement. In 10th grade I recruited my cousin and formed my first real band. By senior year I was in 3 bands, playing with my cousin doing sophomore hops and battle of the bands, playing with these hard rock dudes (“Hey Angus!”) from Ridley, and in a Top 40 band with my good friend Bob (who I play with today in Aftershock), and started taking private lessons from Bruce Kaminsky. It was a great year. While in college I won a guitar at a contest and started practicing alot on it, then minored in music taking guitar lessons from Pat Setzer. I played in cover bands until '90, then joined Audio Mob and did an original album and played some great gigs, both original and cover, with the same group of guys. We got some local exposure, getting some airplay on the local rock stations, playing some cool places, and being on a show called "Street Beat", but getting a record deal was just out of reach. After that band broke up in '94, I did some other projects with Regina Christian, Mark Burkert, and the Hired Guns, and also formed Aftershock, the band I am in now. It's a great cover mixture of instrumental and popular classic rock and other stuff that makes me psyched whenever we play.

Influences include:
Led Zeppelin, Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse Band, Rush, Yes, Jaco Pastorius, Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen (w/DLR), Beatles, the "Philly Sound" era, Steely Dan, ELO, Jamalaadeen Tacuma, Baroque music, Bach, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, The Pretenders, Tommy Emmanuel, other 60's-70's-80's rock stuff....and on and on

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