One Fateful night in March 2004 the phone rang and asked "dude, we need a guitar player who can sing .....do you want to join a band?". \When the answer came back "yes", the response was..... "we're at rehearsal now. Can you make it in 15 minutes?". That was how he joined our happy little group of Rock Megastars and the rest as they say......is history.

"Richie" has been playing in bands for over 16 years. His glittering career began playing drums at the tender age of 14 in "Schumacher's Elves", in a small country town in northern NSW. Upon moving to the big city in search of rock stardom he switched to guitar went to college (to learn to play the thing) and has never looked back since.

Having played everything from 50's Doo Wop to Hip Hop, to Country Music (did I admit to that?) gives "Richie" a broad range of experience in all genres of modern popular music. Some of the bands he has featured in are, Klave (vocals), Heifer (guitar), Musk (guitar), "Tribute" - the Ozzy Osborne show (vocals), Blackest Sabbath (vocals), Van Hagar (vocals) and Van Jovi (vocals and "keys"). He has also appeared on a number of independently released recordings by both Musk and Otis (as a session player). "Richie" was also the full time song writing partner and guitar player for Brett McNaughton (Girl Overboard) in the later part of his life.