Chronic Tendencies Members, Jeff

Growing up a music fan in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Jeff learned three guitar chords in seventh grade and played in the youth choir in church on Sundays. " I played for a year and hated to practice so I quit." "I didn't pick up a guitar again until I was 39 years old, said Jeff." "I knew Mark Bradley and Dave Lester had played in bands and I asked them to play at a party I was having - with the catch that they would have to teach me to play some songs." "We've been together ever since."

Jeff was introduced to the blues and the idea of combining blues with rock music while living in Minneapolis. "I used to hang out at the Cabooze Bar on Cedar Avenue and listen to who ever was coming through on their tour. Most of them were white bands or performers - Bonnie Raitt, Elvin Bishop, George Thorogood, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and regional heavyweights, Lamont Cranston and The Hoopsnakes." "I just thoroughly enjoy that style of music." " To this day, Lamont Cranston is still one of the best bands ever!" "I also enjoyed southern rock and delta blues" "Chronic Tendencies was formed with these blues-rock influences as its backbone."

Jeff has also experienced music from a different point of view, as he once co-owned the Uptown Music Café in Georgia. " I know how difficult it is to develop an audience so I appreciate fans who go out and listen to live music." When asked where the name of the band came from, Jeff responded "all of us guys have had the chronic tendency to keep music in our lives - playing, recording, listening, going to see someone we really dig - we even convince our wives to spend vacation time at a music venue or festival so the name just seemed to fit."