Career
The group"s adventures with copyright are legendary, most notably a fight with U2"s music publishers in 1992. Since 1999, he has been bass-playing sideman for singer Malcolm Mooney from the Germany-based music legends, Can, in Malcolm Mooney and the Tenth Planet. He has numerous audio restoration, mastering and live recording credits through his Red Channels sound studio in El Cerrito.
Projects over the years have included clients and artists such as:
Superior Viaduct
Sublime Frequencies
Tuxedomoon
Mutants
German Shepherds
Noh Mercy
Crack: We Are Rock
Ron Anderson and Ruins
Fred Frith/Chris Cutler/Thomas Dimuzio
Nihilist Spasm Band
Sun City Girls
Porest
MX-80
O-Type
The Molecules
Moe!kestra
As a film and video curator, he co-owned a single-screen cinema from 2004–2009 and continues to present shows in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, as well as engaging in or assisting various film preservation endeavours.
He co-created the 2003 clip-based documentary, Value Added Cinema, and directed a 2005 short video observing Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin at work, Brand Impressions. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco.
