Position: Bass Drummer

Year joined: 2009

Previous Bands: The Pipes and Drums of the Canadian General Electric Co.in Peterborough Ontario, The City of Toronto Pipe Band also known as the Caber Feigh Pipe Band, Cavan Hills Pipes & Drums, The Red Deer Legion Pipe Band, The Hastings & Prince Edward Regimental Pipe Band, The Highland Gentlemen and The Gizeh Shrine Pipes and Drums.

Career: I have also had about as many career changes as variety has always been my ambition in life. I worked at the Outboard Marine Corp for about 11 years working my way up the corporate ladder to get a position in the inside sales division until I got the opportunity to accept a sweet position as Western Sales Manager for our big competitor Mercury Marine and transferred to Vancouver in 1976. In 1980 I was transferred to Red Deer Alberta as Regional Sales Mgr. until I purchased my own sporting goods store there and became President. With the oil crisis in the 80's came a slow down in the entire economy of Alberta and the entire country so I sold my company and moved back to Peterborough and worked as Sales Manager for Suzuki Marine but that was not a great opportunity so I left and took a sales position in the food business. After all I did have lots of sales experience and when they asked if I had any in the food industry I said dam straight that I did as I had a family of four and we ate three square a day. I got the job with a small French fry company in New Brunswick....McCain Foods, you might or might not have heard of them before. I did that for a few more years then in 1988 I had the opportunity to come back to BC as Sales Manager for a large aluminum window manufacturer National Aluminum Products. They needed a sales department set up as the owners, who were friends of mine wanted to sell the business but the buyer wanted a sales team established so I did that and they sold and I moved on to Industrial Supplies at Fleck Brothers. 5 years was good enough for me and I moved on to Wilkinson Steel & Metals and became a territory Sales Manager until I retired last year.....that's all I have done ..

Favorite drumming moment: ....well I have two, first is the huge tattoo that was held in Toronto in 1975 with all of the big names in Scottish Bands, Red Hackle, Edinburough Police, Dysart & Dun Donald, Shots', Muirhead & Sons, The Gurkas, The Saudii Arabian Pipe Band and many more and we The Canadian General Electric played grade two at that time. John Wayne was the Grand Marshall and the Queen of England was in attendance.
The other favorite moment in 1976 was winning Grade one in Maxville Ontario which was the North American Championship for pipe bands and I played with Chris Anderson, Bill Livingstone, Wayne Jarvis lead drummer and Luke Allen the best bass drummer in the world and we won the big one. It was totally awesome as we marched off playing Caber Feigh and proud as a peacock as we were the first band to ever play timpani tenors in a competition and we knocked em dead with our routine.