The Big Sound :: California Rocksteady, Reggae and Ska-> Boogie

BOOGIE - saxaphone
"I started singing at age 3, playing piano at age 5, trumpet/sax/guitar at age 12, Bass at age 15, drums at age 19. Why? It's obviously some kind of schizophrenic / A.D.D. / Obsessive-Compulsive kind of thing.... Oh yeah and it helps that I'm crazy too!"

MUSICAL INFLUENCES
Tom MacCintosh, Hubert Laws, Wilton Felder, The Jazz Crusaders, Fela Kuti,Max Roach, Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Bob James, Winton Marsalis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin, Pat Metheney, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Herb Alpert, Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach, Claus Ogerman, Fishbone, The JB's, The Meters, James Brown, Sly & The Family Stone, Larry Graham, Prince,Louis Prima, Stuff Smith, Jon Luc Ponte, Gato Barbieri, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz,J oe Cuba, Eddie Palmieri, Dizzy Gallespie, Chano Pozo, Little Richard, B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Fear, Bad Brains,T he Exploited, Minor Threat, The Germs, Dead Kennedys, The Pogues, The Pixies, The Sundays, Generation X, Souxsie & The Banshees, Operation Ivy, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Sonic Youth, The Cramps, The Kinks, and David Bowie.

...and for reggae, Jackie Mitto, Sly & Robbie, Inner Circle, Augustus Pablo, The Ethiopians, Aquarius, Horace Andy, The Congos, Jacob Miller, The Mighty Diamonds, Max Romeo, Peter Tosh, Joe Gibbs, The Abyssinians, Burning Spear, Third World, Linval Thompson, Junior Murvin, The Heptones, Dillinger, U-Roy,Big Youth, The Meditations, Lee Perry,Skatalites, The Viceroys, Dennis Brown, Freddy McGregor, Jody Mowatt & The I Three, Gregory Isaacs, King Tubby, The Gladiators, The Aggrovators, Carlos Malcolm, Laurel Aitken, Prince Buster, Stranger Cole, Toots & The Maytals, Justin Hinds & His Dominoes, Derrick Morgan, Twinkle Brothers, Tommy McCook & The Supersonics, Roland Alphonso & The Soul Brothers, Dennis Bovell, Linton Kwaze Junior, Mutabaruka, Israel Vibration, Black Uhuru, The Melodians

FUNNIEST BIG SOUND MOMENT:
"Finished playing, and found my zipper was down the whole show."

WHAT BOOGIE LIKES TO DO BESIDES MAKING BIG SOUND:
"Make big love!"