He is a bass player multi-musician and singer born in
the City by the Bay, San Francisco, California.He began his professional career after a friend had said
he should rent a bass guitar and become involved with a local band.When he was 16 he became a member
of The Mystiques who became the band Frumious Bandersnatch but he would eventually
move to The Steve Miller Band in 1971. In 1972 he joined up with a group of musicians that
were known as the golden Gate Rhythm Section that would soon become known
as Journey.The group asked
him to leave for "creative differences" in 1986, and from 1988 to 1996 he
was a founder of the bands VU, The Storm and Sy Klopps Blues Band.He also performed in a tour with
Michael Bolton.Journey
re-united in 1996, and he is still performing with them, and Frumious Bandersnatch
were also brought back together to record an album from 2002 to 2004.He has released one solo CD called The
Hive.He is noted for
using the four bottom strings of a 5-string guitar on his bass, which gives
a different sound to the instrument.
