Who Is VoxxRocks?
VoxxRocks is music and more as lived experience — songs, stories, and time, mapped in sound and video.
If you heard me out there and now find yourself here, I’d like to think it’s because something you heard resonated with you, piquing your curiosity, leading to this trip down the rabbit hole.
Fantastic, that’s exactly what I’ve been up to for years!
If you’ve ever felt music was more than entertainment, believe songs can carry messages and convey memories and information, if you’ve lived long enough to notice patterns and want to shout what you’ve learned so others can benefit too, read on Kindred Spirit…
Meet Your Host
VoxxRocks
What fun!
I learned young I could garner attention by singing.
My family still reminds me how cute I was while singing Everything Is Beautiful, using thumb as a microphone.
A few years later, I’d find myself playing air guitar, pretending and playing make believe.
Turns out, if you do that long enough, you grow believing you can make, so I did.
Unlike many who pick up a guitar for the first time, my goal was not to play music already written. My intention was to write my own music.
The guitar and my voice would become my pen and paper.
My Bands
Ransom & Almost Angels
One Christmas Eve, a young boy named Gary saw me flipping through a book I had just received as a gift.
It was the Encyclopedia of Music. A guide to the history of music, instruments of the orchestra and the most influential classical composers.
He sat next to me and asked, “So, are you a musician?”
Turned out he was a drummer from Deer Park and he invited me to jam in his garage.
With me not knowing how to play any cover songs and Gary never having heard m material, it was awkward. So he hatched a plan.
He asked if I knew the words to a couple of songs he could play.
I said sure.
He said he knew a guitar player who could sit in and we could play.
What happened after that sparked a 30 plus year adventure.
One Gary and I are still on to this day!
A playlist of our early works can be found here:
Electric Killer Grasshoppers
As the line up changed, so to did the name.
We became EKG, Electric Killer Grasshoppers.
Damon and Rob wrote the music, I wrote the lyrics and sang as usual.
For a simple group of 20 somethings from Deer Park Long Island, we managed to do some pretty cool things.
We secured opening slots for major label acts, were honored by ASCAP at The New Music Seminar for having brought the the Best New Song of The Year!
I even got to play a show for Amnesty International at The Greenville Municipal Stadium in South Carolina.
We stayed at a motel called The Cricket Inn and in our fanzine said EKG at The Cricket Inn is like saying we’re staying with family!
A playlist of our early works can be found here:
Laguna RUIN
EKG broke up and I devoted myself to selling cars.
The guys wouldn’t have it.
Joe, Barry and Trixx had plans and those plans included me!
Easily the heaviest band material I’ve been a part of.
Though these are quite different than the previous bands songs, the one constant, my voice, my lyrics, my stories continues to grow, adapt and evolve.
Our long time Producer Steve created Photon Records, signed us and together we upped our game again!
A playlist of our early works can be found here:
231
Again the line up changed, again the name had to as well.
We chose the name of the road that we all had shared history upon.
It served us well and Long Island enthusiastically embraced us.
We played all of the biggest shows, at all of the biggest venues, with all of the biggest names.
We enjoyed radio and television station interviews, acoustic and electric performances and of course playing their parties!
We signed another record deal under this banner.
Barry, affectionately known to us as “The Son of Sam” loved our album LOVELAUGHSHARD and together with industry heavyweights Bob and Perry, managed our affairs.
A playlist of LOVELAUGHSHARD material can be found here:
My Solo Efforts
The VoxxRocks Era Begins
With 231 having had a good run, the time had come to put my Band playing days behind me.
However, nothing was going to prevent me from continuing my music journaling.
I began as a singing, songwriting, guitar player, no reason I couldn’t pick that mantle up again and continue marching on.
So I did.
I was a writing fool as I didn’t have to wait on files from others to express when the urge presented itself.
A playlist of VoxxRocks Volume 1 material can be found here:
Volume II
Volume II, I think, is where I embraced the direction Volume I started.
A playlist of early VoxxRocks music can be found here:
Volume III
By this point, I am writing songs in batches of threes, resting and enjoying them for a week or so and then producing more, again in batches of threes.
I have found a new voice and have turned away from traditional boy girl songs to singing songs that carried more weight and spoke of larger concepts.
Whereas my first VoxxRocks solo album continued where LOVELAUGHSHARD left off, it is here that we begin to see a maturing.
A Playlist of LOVELAUGHSHARD material can be found here:
VoxxRocks~ParaDoxx
10 Years passed since last I wrote, recorded and released music.
The computer I recorded much of my solo work on needed an upgrade, my recording software was inaccessible to me.
Apparently, it was part of God’s plan to remove me from my tools for a time.
It allowed me time to grow and change, without the pressure that comes with felling I needed to write and turn thoughts into things.
A Playlist of LOVELAUGHSHARD material can be found here: