From 1974-1983 I was a full-time musician playing country, blues, rock, and jazz in local Santa Cruz and San Francisco Bay Area bands and with nationally-known artists such as Elvin Bishop and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. I got sick of living on the road in motels and not really having a home and quit Elvin's band right before a tour of eastern steel towns in the dead of winter.
In 1984, I started working at an Apple-oriented computer publication called "A+ Magazine." This led to a technical writing job at HP where I learned Unix system administration and got into software engineering. I moved to Sun Microsystems as a software engineer in 1986 and finally saved enough money to drop out of full-time computer work and moved to an A-frame on 11 beautiful acres in Fall Creek (east of Eugene, OR) in early 1991.
Currently I play with various local bands as a sideman and, whenever possible, work with my main band, The Swingin' Marmalukeys. We just finishing up a CD that will be available in late March 2007. In addition, lately folks have been sending me their partially finished tracks on CD and I have been adding dobro (resonator guitar), pedal-steel, mandolin, and saxophone parts in my own studio and sending them back to them. This is a lot of fun.
I also currently work part-time at St. Vincent de Paul of Lane County helping out with their server and desktop systems.
In addition to music, I love windsurfing, biking, skiing, landsailing, giant croquet, hiking, camping, reading, my wife Hilary and my little doggie, Emmy.
(c) 1995 Jonathan Neher