It was 1981 and I was sitting at the curb, in front of my house, strategically planting firecrackers in a plastic Viking ship model I had built and was now destroying. You see, I had started the attack in my pool, but got in trouble because the oars got stuck in the filter...so I took the raid to land...Yup, with each explosion, tiny plastic oars flew all over the place.

It was amazing, exciting.. explosive.

Flanking the mini-movie at the curb was my mini-boombox, playing a cassette that my friend had lent me. Something about the music made me want to listen more closely. Hmm .. As my first little stick of dynamite took out the mast of the ship, so began a very cool instrumental. The music was fierce. And then .. it happened. I heard the drum fill...right in the beginning of Temples.

It was amazing, exciting, explosive.. and it changed my life, forever...

Having played to thousands of fans on both coasts.. from the Wiltern Theater in downtown Los Angeles, to The Whisky A Go-Go and The Troubadour of West Hollywood, to the Grand Hyatt Ballroom in Manhattan, Jim has performed with national tribute bands as the drummer and lead/backing vocalist for The Doobie Others as well as drummer and backing vocalist for Sir Elton. He also fronts his regional cover band, X-Session, for over twenty years. A graduate of the Percussion Institute of Technology (PIT), which is an extension of The Los Angeles Music Academy of Hollywood, California, Jim is schooled in all styles of drums and percussion. Having studied drums with Ralph Humphrey (Frank Zappa, Don Ellis Big Band) and Joe Porcaro (Stan Getz, Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra), among many others, Jim also prides himself on his vocal training with Christine Radman (The Juilliard School) and Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge, ‘Bogert, Beck and Appice’).