When I was thirteen my brother Bobby and I used to jam in our basement and record on reel-to-reel tapes laying tracks down. One day we met up with Vito Capurso, who was also into music. We formed a group called "The Tiffany Tide" with Horace Marucci, who played bass. At Horace's house, he put a bowl over each of our head's and cut our hair to look like the Beatles. When we went home that night my mother yelled at me, shouting "What did you do to your hair?"

I played the drums with double bass drums. Bobby played lead guitar and sang. Vito played rhythm & lead guitar, and Horace played the bass. Later on we added a keyboard player to the band, Joe Magliaro. Through our early teenage years, we played at high school dances, and we used to go over Bobby Macioci's house and jam together.

In 1968, Bobby and I went to a festival in West Orange where Wayne Brown was playing. We met him for the first time that night. Around that time "The Tiffany Tide" competed in a "Battle of the Bands" where we played with Chubby Checker and that led to gigs in nightclubs. "The Tiffany Tide" eventually broke up, but we all continued playing music in different bands.

I moved to Florida for a few years and continued to play in bands. I moved back to New Jersey with a band and played here for a while. The band broke up soon after I returned home. One day in 1981, my friend Vito Capurso called me and said that he and Wayne were putting together a band called "The Fuse", and they were looking for a drummer. I played with The Fuse until we broke up in 1983.

Twenty-five years later, that call came again, "The Fuse" was getting back together and they needed me to play drums.  Now at 54, I am still "Rockin' On" in the world of ROCK 'N ROLL!

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