Artist / Musician / Filmaker

His past reads like a Who's Who of the 60s and 70s. "Boots" was bass player and founder member of "The In Crowd," one of London's coolest bands in '65. He was born five minutes from Abbey Road Studios, London. He spent his days hanging out and playing the club circuit with Davie Jones & The Lower Third (Bowie), The High Numbers (Who), The Small Faces, Yardbirds, Kinks, Georgie Fame, The Pretty Things, Jimmy Page, and a host of other forgotten bands at the A&R Club, the Giaconda Coffee Bar in Denmark Street, and Selmers Music Store in the Charing Cross Road (a magnet for rock scene wanna-be's), who spent their days waiting for their big break, and their nights poppin' pills and playing London's all-night club scene.

The In Crowd, Steve Howe, guitar (Yes); Keith West, vocals (Excerpt from a Teenage Opera); Junior Woods, guitar (Jeff Beck All Stars); Twink, drums (Pink Fairies) became resident all-night house band at the notorious "Club Noriek." a must for unemployed visiting American blues players, who sometimes played two or three clubs a night for peanuts as they rode the tide of a changing American music scene. Muddy, Sonny Boy, Broonzy, Lightnin' Chuck, Bo, Jerry Lee: he opened for them all, accompanying many. The band quickly notched up two major chart successes and split, as vocalist (West) had a number-one solo hit and Howe left to join Yes.

At the time the band was the subject of a TV documentary. "Boots" left music and entered the film industry, painting and playing along the way. In '76 he produced Rick Griffin's (Grateful Dead) London retrospective Roundhouse Rock Art Show (a milestone in rock art). He has travelled to six continents, often living with tribal peoples filming everything from John & Yoko's home movies to War Zones.