Greg B. Host was born and raised in Pontiac, Michigan and has been playing guitar, keyboards and woodwinds for most of his natural life. He studied music theory at Oakland University and was one half of the popular performing team of Glad Host, famous for their funny and irritating musical Christmas specials. Greg is a produced playwright, has acted in local and regional television shows and commercials and has been a songwriter and amateur recording enthusiast since high school.
Melissa B. Host was born in Florida, raised in Los Angeles and grew up in Winchester, Virginia, home of country & western legend, Patsy Cline. Melissa has been writing lyrics since before she met Greg and has sung backup vocals for a local Winchester band at some of Ms. Cline’s favorite Shenandoah Valley haunts
Jim Faulkner was born and raised in the Metro-Detroit area. He first picked up the drum sticks during junior high school, and was playing the Detroit bar scene by the mid-80’s. In 1989 Jim helped form The Happy Accidents, a pop punk band with whom he released two albums and toured the U.S. into the late 90’s. They also opened locally for several notable visiting bands such as The Hoodoo Gurus, The Pursuit of Happiness, The Figgs, and Webb Wilder. While keeping The Accidents as his main band, Jim also spent time with various other Detroit bands such as Goober & The Peas, Strange Bedfellows, Cinecyde and The Volebeats. In 2000, Jim joined with former Happy Accident singer/guitarist Paul Einhaus to form The Winonas , a roots-rock trio that has now released two albums. Jim recently joined The Hosts, with whom he played the annual Cass Lake Woods(tock) party.
Paul was raised by wolves in a suburb of Little Rock, Arkansas. He did not utter a human word until the age of 12. Not a lick. And it came to pass that he was discovered by a nun who taught him English, the ukulele and Euclidian geometry. He brings to the Hosts a considerable musical vocabulary mostly gleaned from his days as a band member in a touring company of "The Golden Girls on Ice." He turned down a lucrative offer with Night Ranger to join The Hosts.
Todd Michael Breadon has spent the entirety of his life
along the I-75 corridor from Ferndale to Flint. Playing bass began when his
father dreamt of learning the theme song from Barney Miller. Two hours later,
when the dream died, tiny Todd snatched that JC Penny bass and taught
himself . He was then forced to dress like Abe Vigoda for the remainder of his
childhood for upstaging his father. Since that bittersweet success, Todd has
founded The Big Richards, Dallywag, The Confusion Boats and little engine.
Currently playing bass and ukulele for Detroit's only Hawaiian band, The
Menehunes, he has also become the newest member of The Hosts.
So young, that his bio is still in the formative stages...
Dr. Noel Collins-Porter, Jr.(Brandt Peterson) was born into a family of traveling entertainers in San Francisco, California. Trained from an early age in saxophone, phrenology, trick archery, and marimba, Collins-Porter, Jr. eventually took on the challenge of the bass guitar, playing in bands in Portland, Oregon in the early 1990s, and later in Austin, Texas. His most notable stint was as the primary bass player in Elliott Smith's nascent Portland band, Heatmiser.
Suffering from nerves after a horrible accident in the family William Tell act, he abandoned phrenology and archery, and, on the advice of his physicians moved to the pleasant peninsula of Michigan, where he finally found The Hosts and Michigan State University.
Groovy lead guitarist, sometime bassist and one time
keyboardist on our debut CD, Arthur H. began piano lessons at age 8 and proved to be a natural. He went on
to study theory and musicianship at the
Domingo
began studying music at the age of nine playing the alto sax. By age thirteen he
had taken up playing the Bass Guitar performing in numerous Rock and Jazz bands.
After meeting guitarist Steve Tarnowsky, the two ventured into the alternative
Rock scene performing in 230MAX and TRYST. With the addition of Lorenzo G on
drums, the three formed the
After
some success in Daisy Chain, Domingo took up the flamenco guitar and began his
own Latin influenced jazz rock outfit, Domingo, where he is focusing his
attention today.
