Guitar, Drums, Vocals. From Bloomington originally also Boston and now Birmingham, Alabama. Founding member and guitarist in Blake Babies with Juliana Hatfield and Freda Love. Band was formed while attending college in Boston. Had great success on the "indie" circuit in the late 1980s/early 1990s. A series of albums and EPs were released on Mammoth Records. Also joined early version of The Lemonheads as a drummer and appeared on one album. Lemonheads front man Evan Dando also joined Blake Babies on occasion. After Blake Babies disbanded in early 1990s John formed Antenna with Freda and Jake Smith. This band also included at times Vess Ruhtenberg, Pat Spurgeon and Ed Ackerson. Antenna released two records on Mammoth. This band lasted until about 1995 when it morphed into Velo Deluxe with Kenny Childers (bass) and Mitch Harris (drums) joining. The band released one album "Superelastic" on Mammoth Records. After Kenny left Vess joined up for a tour of Europe before they disbanded in 1996. Meanwhile John had formed a country outfit called The Hello Strangers with Mitch Harris, Glenn Hicks and other Bton regulars. This band existed about 1-2 years and released a CD "Caledonia" on Flat Earth records. In the Late 1990s John toured as a guitarist with the Lemonheads as well as reunited with the Blake Babies to tour and release an album "God Bless the Blake Babies". He also left Bloomington around this time to move to Birmingham Alabama to pursue a law degree and start a family with wife Heather. He has since recorded one solo recorded "Vestavia" for Flat Earth Records. He is currently finished his next record to be released late 2005/early 2006.

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