Ken is 39 years old and single against his wishes. (Whether it's his better judgment is yet to be seen!) He has been playing drums since he was 10 years old when he started playing in the school band on snare drum. When he was 15 he began playing on a 5 piece kit and would eventually end up owning a 1982 Royal Midnight Blue Tama drum set, bought with his high school graduation money. This kit is FINALLY fully restored with some new hardware and cymbals. Even now, there's no guarantee Ben and Mike will let him play it other than at home in "the music room". 

He immediately began playing with an ad-hoc high school band but stopped when he went overseas in the Army in 1983. While in Germany, Ken played in a band called "Showdown", comprised of other military personnel and German nationals. This band played many gigs for American style rock-and-roll loving German and American fans, both on and off base, and featured cover tunes as well as many original tunes. After his stint in the Army, Ken returned to San Diego and hooked up with his old band mates from high school and played mainly garage/studio type performances under the band name of "Spectre". This band broke up in the early 1990's and aside from playing around with his brother's garage band, Ken stored his drums so he would have to massively clean them years later. (See year long restoration project!)

In June of 2001 Ken learned of the band venture being spearheaded by Ben, Mike and PK, however, at that time they already had three drummers. Somehow he ended up singing a few tunes for them and (despite the *constant* threat of being replaced) he attempts to keep the band laughing during practice (hence the nick name SPAZBOY). 

Since joining "Code 3 Cover" Ken has routinely attempted to keep the cables hooked up, keep the sound system running smooth (hence the nickname MacGyver), faked a couple of harmonica solos and will occasionally sing in tune during a lead or back up, all the while complaining he has no formal vocal training (and it shows!) 

His favorite musical influences range from rock to R&B to Jazz, with such bands as Rush, Journey, Saga, Jean Luc Ponty, Zapp & Roger (old school!) The Police (go figure), Metallica, Queensryche, Van Halen, Dream Theatre, Earth Wind & Fire, Bobby Caldwell, Tangerine Dream, Surf Punks, Jerky Boys, and many others. 

His hobbies (outside of the band) include skiing, scuba, digital video editing, flying helicopters, RC cars, paintball, praying for & recruiting groupies, Playstation 2, home theater, taking care of 3 cats, anything sci-fi, dragging his tired behind to the gym, burning audio cd's, procrastinating bass lessons from PK, and grooming the next Mrs. Smith via
Southwest Airlines!

Ken uses a Shure UT series UHF Vocal Artist wireless microphone set up, with a Shure SM58 mic, assorted "Blues Harp" Harmonicas, a dremel tool, a Digitech Vocalist Performer Harmony Processor (anything helps!), a Boss DD-3 Digital Delay pedal, a Digitech 16 Voice Chorus Pedal, assorted extension cords, Mike's congas, and PK's and Melba's vocals to cover up any flaws!