Circuit-33 (The Band)Not to be confused with circuits of any other variety

I started singing when I was in the 2′nd grade, and that’s about the time when I got the bug to perform in front of an audience.  When I was in Junior High School there was a band called “5 Fluid Ounces”, and they let me sing with them, but never in a show.  I guess they all got a kick out of hearing a kid sing songs from Foreigner, Journey, Tom Petty, and so on.   But I never took it too seriously until I moved to Mexico.

In Mexico my friends were all into groups like Motley Crew, Journey, Iron Maiden, Def Leopard, Judas Priest, and so on.  They heard me sing along to the music, as we all did. But one day there was a band holding auditions looking for a singer.  My friends told me that I should go try out, so I did.

At the audition I remember singing Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”,  and “Breaking the Law” by Judas Priest.  At the end of the audition they asked me if I would consider joining the band.  And in my very limited Spanish, I said yes, (“Si”).  They asked me where I was from.  When I told them “California”, they said: “No wonder you can pronounce the words so well!”  When they asked how much experience I had, I answered “none”, (or possibly “nada”, I don’t remember).  They were okay with my answer as long as I could consistently sing as well as I did in the audition.  That’s when the band “Jest” was born.

Jest played with another band that back then was known as “Green Hat”, (now known as “Mana‘ “).

After returning to the U.S. I joined a couple of bands that eventually fizzled into nothing.  But then my priorities changed.  I joined the workforce, settled down, got married to a wonderful woman, raised a beautiful daughter, and now we fast-forward to 2007 when all the right musicians came together and we formed “Circuit-33″!