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What can I say; I grew up in a household that played classical music during the waking hours of the day. I started playing violin at 8, flute at 10 and then my world got turned upside down. In the early 60's my older sisters played "rock and roll" in their bedrooms and I was captivated.
My first "electric instrument" was a Gibson EB-0 bass and a Fender Bassman 50 amp with 2x JBL D120 speakers purchased from a pawn shop in Seattle with the help of a musician here while touring with his band (a tall skinny Brit named Jack Bruce) they had visited a family member, also a musician, he knew I liked bass and asked him to help me out. I never saw this gentleman again but he changed my life and bought me a bass (I bought the amp). This was 1968 and I was 10 years old.
When I was 16 years old I met another man who changed my life, his name was Dick Glass. He had a band called Elephant and took a shine to me. He had been in the "industry" for many years, had run security for Jimi Hendrix, had recorded about 10-12 albums was extremely charismatic and seemed to know everybody in the music business. I loved him like a brother and he treated me as an equal. Pretty heady at 16. At 17 I moved to LA, Dick was working on an album with Rick Derringer. I don't know if Elephant came apart before or after the Rick Derringer album but after that he was doing a series of solo gigs and I did sound for him. Dick's career had its ups and downs as happens to many musicians; I moved back to Seattle about 2 months before I turned 18.
I went to work for Boeing at 18 as a model maker in the Wind Tunnel. Got downsized to a tool and die maker.
Years later I started reconing speakers as a hobby. Since I'd been working as a tool and die maker I realized that this was just a bunch of machined and formed parts. Since then I've been making my own modifications to old alnico JBL's and making my own speakers from scratch with composite cones of various materials, Kevlar, carbon, ceramics and various mixes.
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