Aged 9, joined junior school choir.
Aged 13, joined high school choir and also local church choir
Aged 15, left school, got a job, bought bass guitar with first wage packet.
Aged 17 or 18, (it's a bit vague after all these years) got together with a guitarist buddy and a drum machine and formed my first band 'Pickaxe' (metal)
We eventualy got a drummer and gigged around for a few years before it fizzled out.
Aged 21, Joined 'The Filth Patrol' (5 piece punk/metal) as vocalist.
Aged 22, Joined 'The Junk Virgins' (4 piece avant-garde Talking Heads type of stuff) as bass player and backing vocalist. Meanwhile, the Filth Patrol's bassist left to become an actor (Dominic Brunt AKA 'Paddy' on Emmerdale Farm) so I took over on bass as well as remaining on vocals. We then changed our name to 'Russia' and got a record deal (Impact Records) Released a single and an album. Was ordered to leave Junk Virgins due to contractual reasons. Got off to a bad start with the record company, who had also somehow become our management team and were now taking two different percentages off us. Our relationship continued to plummet.
Aged 23, Became a drug addict and alcoholic due to stress, had a breakdown. Left Russia and took a little time out.Aged 25, Managed to clean my act up enough to join 'Bad Habits' (rhythm & blues) as bassist + backing vocals.
Aged 29, Bad Habits guitarist moved to France, band split.
Aged 30, Joined 'Indecision' (4 piece pub rock) as bassist + backing vocalist.
Aged 31, Indecision split, formed 'The Three Amigos' (3 piece pub rock) with Indecision's drummer and guitarist as bassist and lead vocalist (We actualy sacked the singer and changed our name, but it was his band, so officialy, we all left the band and put a new band together without him.

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Aged 32, Three Amigos added keyboard player and a lead vocalist and became a 5 piece clubland/cabaret act called 'Hit & Run'
Aged 33, Keyboard player and vocalist left so we reverted to Three Amigos.
Aged 34, Left Three Amigos and formed another three piece 'Clockwork Zombie' as bassist and lead vocalist (fast punk/metal) Released an album.
Aged 35, Band split, joined 'Darkside' (6 piece avant-garde/punk/rock) as bassist. Released two albums, also recorded and released first solo album under the guise of 'Mr Phix'
Aged 36, Formed 'Slack Babbath' (Black Sabbath) as lead vocalist and Ozzy impersonator 'Quazi Washboard' along with the guitarist and drummer from The Three Amigos, plus a bass player. Recorded second solo album under Mr Phix.
Aged 40, Put together side project with Babbath's bassist called 'Phi' recorded loads of new material. Never gigged, band fizzled.
Aged 41, Present day. Still in Slack Babbath, plans afoot for us to form a different 'original' band with the same members of Babbath, initialy using the material written by me and the bassist during our 'Phi' sessions, which we hope to expand upon.
We just have to find the time somehow.
Still writing whenever I get a chance.
Recently took up painting landscapes in oils.... I must be getting old. :rolleyes: