OMD, so how did I ever get into this band. My recollection was that it was in the back seat of a friend's car on the way to a volleyball match in Berkley, CA. He put in the Crush tape, and fast forwarded it to So In Love. I was hooked after that. The funny thing was that none of us knew the lyrics to chorus, and yet, even when we finally read the cassette cover to get the right lyrics, we couldn't believe that it was actually "Heaven is cold, without any soul, its hard to believe...." We were singing something totally different, and yet, after hearing the official lyrics, we still sang our version :-) After that, I knew the name OMD. I would be a casual fan/listener during the 80's, but it wasn't until 1991 until I started to get serious about the band. I had the Best Of, and that got me through College, and it is also when I found out that Messages was my absolute favorite song. After that, I took a break from the band (and the band did some break-up thing...) but in 1991, Sugar Tax got me back into the band, and I started to by their earlier stuff, and just about anything else I could find! By 1995, I was a hardcore collector! I started buying things in retro, and hence, have amassed the collection that I have today! BTW, this was taken from an interview done by the Offical OMD site. If you want to read the whole interview, you can see it here.

If you are wondering where the basball card picture came from, it came from my years of playing minor league baseball for the Milwaukee Brewers. I played for 3.5 years in their minor league system, followed by a short stint in 1995 as a replacement player for the Seattle Mariners during the labor strike. I also played for 3 years of college at the University of New Mexico on a full athletic scholarship where I also studied Physical Therapy and perfect my beer drinking skills at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. I now work as Software Test Lead at Microsoft. I have been married since 1993 to the wonderful lady you see in the picture and I am the proud father of young Tyler, who was born on August 8th, 1996.