Why Buddy Holly?
As I usually put it… I didn’t choose Buddy, he chose me!! I inherited my face and bad eyesight from my mother and my curly hair from my father. (We’re not sure where the hic-up came from) The resemblance had been pointed out to me a number of times but it was John and Larry from the Kokomo Beach Band who first insisted I pull together an act for a tribute show we were all working in. I was hesitant at first but I vividly remember seeing a videotape of that first show and thinking, “Geez, I do kinda look like him…!?!” The story continues over a year later when I joined the band at the Toronto show “Rock and Roll Heaven”. After playing keyboards for a couple of months, one night “Buddy” didn’t show. That night MD Paul Kraussman changed my life permanently when he carefully asked if I could step in and fill the spot. Having a whole act prepared from the previous year caught everyone off guard and they asked my to continue with it. Word of mouth spread and before long I became ‘the guy
