That finally changed in the fall of 2019 with the formation of the Radioactives: a funk band where I am actually not the guitar player, but for the first time ever in my musical travels, the funky bass player.

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We got together at my kids’ school, Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley, where our music teacher is named Madame Kuhry (pronounced like Curie...get it?). After Mme Kuhry, an excellent keyboardist and vocalist, arrived at school, I realized that there were quite a few excellent musicians amongst the ranks of teachers and parents. And I remembered that a band does not have to conquer the world or write life-changing songs—it can just be fun. So I invited some of these excellent musicians to get together and play some classic funk tunes with me—just for giggles, no big whoop—and to my surprise and delight, they all accepted. 

Fast forward nearly four years, and we have indeed had a lot of fun (and plenty of giggles) playing soulful tunes—from Stevie Wonder to Jamiroquai to Adele—at a number of school shindigs, plus one very cool gig at the Cowell Theater in SF last year. And there are Radioactives originals on the way (stay tuned for some sneak-peek demos).