Bio

Buddy began playing guitar at age thirteen. That year; for Christmas, he wanted a drum set but received an acoustic guitar with strings which seemed like oak trees. He wanted nothing to do with trying to press his fingers on those things. Thus, having no interest for this, he did not practice but had to suffer through lessons his parents provided. With teachers more interested in talking about bowling leagues and playing music he did not like, there was very little inspiration to get the job done. He left the instrument lying around for months and basically went through the motions of practicing such hits as "Red River Valley" and Skip to My Lou". With all his friends listening to "Wipe Out" and "Louie Louie", Bud had a real musical identity crisis. Some time later; at a church social, one of his peers' bands was playing and the lead guitarist played the guitar behind his back. That was all it took. He was instantly inspired. Returning home that night, Buddy sat upstairs in his room, with his favorite records and proceeded to figure out the notes and chords and basically taught himself how to play. This was the start of many years of performing with a multitude of bands and venues. Buddy has worked with many groups including stints with Axis (original music/covers), Nottingham (covers) and Redeye (original music ). He has had many hundreds of hours recording time and thousands of gigs as a performer in night clubs, Military (Officer's Clubs), Weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, outdoor concerts, and private parties. You name the Venue, he has probably performed there. Having managed and performed with Redeye for over five years and working constantly, he got married, had a baby, went through a divorce, and stopped playing for a while. After all this, decided to give it a rest as it was becoming too much like work and not fun any longer. After the 911 attacks in 2001, he decided it was time to get back into performing, especially writing and recording.