Doug is the bass player for Eyewitness Blues Band. He thinks this is the 12th band he has been in, but after all that rock and roll, who can really remember?

Doug learned to play acoustic guitar, sort of, at the knee of his grandmother, the fastest-fingered balalaika player ever to come out of Ukraine. His mother is an accomplished pianist and singer.

His musical career began in earnest when he took up the bass in high school. In college, he played in a variety of new wave, punk, R&B and blues bands.

Doug actually moved to the Bay Area in 1985 to join a rock band of ex-New Yorkers living in Berkeley, called the Nice Boys From New York. Bob Dylan's former drummer Howie Wyeth was their drummer. If you'd like to see what Doug looks like with hair, look for  their one and only album in a cutout bin near you.

In 1990, Doug traded the dull, humdrum, rock and roll life for the glamorous existence of a KCBS reporter, but he's thrilled to be rockin' once more.

FAVORITE BASS PLAYERS: Paul McCartney, Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Tony Levin.

PROUDEST MUSICAL MOMENT: Playing a kazoo solo with Jethro Tull at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.

ABSOLUTE HIGHLIGHT OF MY MUSICAL LIFE: Jamming with an East African band at a club in Tanga, Tanzania. We played "La Bamba" and "Guantanamera," because they were the only "American" songs the band knew.

FAVORITE BEATLE: George Harrison, because I got to play with him once!