Glenn has entered his fourth decade playing music in bands, with a truly wide range of tastes and styles of music. It all started when he was 12; he took $90 he had saved from his paper route and bought a used Hagstrom bass, though he had never played one before ("I just thought it looked kind of cool up there on the wall!"). 

Along with six other junior high pals who also had just bought instruments they couldn't play, they formed the Top 40 band Eclipse in Tamaqua, PA (complete with 2-piece horn section - almost a requirement in the Chicago-era 70's). "I never will understand how I decided I was the lead singer" laughs Glenn. "My voice was changing and cracking, and I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket!" 

Practice makes perfect, however. Though they were truly terrible at first, by constantly rehearsing twice a weekend Eclipse quickly got better. In 6 months, they wangled a gig at Edna's Bar and Grill after a last-second cancellation. They were well received, and soon became the house band. By age 13, Glenn and his buddies were usually playing and singing two gigs a weekend, and they continued their fun and productive career until Glenn had to move south after his junior year of high school. 

By then, Glenn's skills encompassed bass, strong vocals, saxophone, and guitar. He is also an accomplished songwriter.

The band bug didn't disappear once Glenn went off to college at UNC Chapel Hill. He played with successful Top 40 band  Zanzibar while at school (much to the detriment of his GPA!) They were a big hit at the frat houses especially. This band featured future Broadway and NYPD Blue star Sharon Lawrence on lead vocals.

Glenn decided he had to take a stab at musical fame full time, and dropped out of UNC after his junior year (delighting his parents) to go on the road with Ezra, a hard rock glam band with some old band mates from high school. Unfortunately, no pictures of Glenn in the purple spandex pants seem to have survived. 

Ezra was very successful touring the southeastern US and playing the larger rock clubs. Glenn would relate some road warrior stories, but understands that this is a family website!

By 1983, Glenn was tiring of the ultraloud hard rock of Ezra (and getting a little bit fried from the road). Taking his music in a totally new direction, he helped found a ska/mod band called The Buttondowns. 

Sporting flat top hairdos, black suits, skinny ties, white socks with black loafers, and with a horn section and designated "nutty dancer", they were quite the popular novelty act, and a very unusual sight in Greensboro, NC (where Lynyrd Skynyrd and long hair still ruled the musical scene!) 

They moved to London England for a year to cut demos and seek fame and fortune and to be young in another country. The trip and experience were priceless, but the band split up when singer/saxophonist Tony got homesick for his old girlfriend (and watery American beer) and went home one day on the spur of the moment. 

As Glenn climbed the ladder professionally (he was a contract drafting specialist for the life insurance industry by day), the music bug never abated, and he continued to play 2 or 3 times a week for many years, always enjoying trying new musical ideas.

He spent 3 years with The Suspects, a fun all-original three piece punk/power pop combo; many years with Tin Pan Alley, a 5-piece wedding/variety/Motown/classic rock/dance band; 2 years with The Switch, a very successful country-rock show band based in Raleigh NC, and several with Jeff Hart and the Ruins, a rockin' pop band.

Glenn decided to try to "give up" his musical career, sold his equipment, and entered night law school for four years in 1996. Working full time, helping to raise two kids (son Jonathan and daughter Morgan), surviving law school, and trying to spend at least a little time with the family was a big challenge, but with everyone helping out, Glenn succeeded in passing the bar in July 2000 (on his 40th birthday, in fact. That was quite a birthday present!)  Glenn is now a compliance attorney for a major life insurer in downtown Baltimore.

Sure enough, the musical itch slowly returned once everyone was settled into jobs and schools. One day Glenn happened upon the Oracle website; the band sounded like exactly what he had been looking for, so Oracle had a new bass player.

Unfortunately, as with Jeff before him, the rigors of the band's hectic performance schedule soon began to wear thin, and after a few close calls driving home to Bel Air Maryland after a long day at the office and nearly dozing off, he realized that no amount of enjoyment is worth risking your life and the lives of others over.  

Thus at the end of 2003, after a year with the band he announced his intention to move on.  The mark he left on the band was significant though, and Oracle is a better band as a result of his tenure.

We wish him the best, and of course we get him to come out and party with us from time to time.

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