Mickey has been in the music industry for over 20 years as a singer writer, producer, and on-air talent. In 1986 at the age of 19 he signed an independent record deal with Greenworld Records(distributed through Capitol Records) with his band HARLOW. The first single “Rock the Box” received a small amount of radio play and the band moved from Kansas City Mo. to Hollywood, Ca. Mickey has played just about every club in Hollywood from The Whiskey, The Roxy, FM Station,The Cathouse. etc. and has shared the same stage with such bands as Guns and Roses, Poison, Warrant, Faster Pussycat, Great White, Bang Tango, Tuff, Black Cherry, Suicidal Tendencies, etc...
In 1990 Mickey Signed a production deal to record with his band Baby Strange and since then Mickey has continued to perform, write and record with Vendetta, The Smash and today recording solo.
In 1998 he started ROCKNROLLSTATION.COM one of the first live internet stations to offer live audio and live video. After years of crazy rock shows and 5 hour interviews he brought the same format to KRLA 870 radio. Mickey is the one that brought you the long awaited Runaways reunion interview along with interviews of Ronnie James Dio, Duff, Slash and Gilby Clark(Guns and Roses, Velvet Revolver), AC/DC, Phil Mogg(UFO), Def Leppard, Bif Naked, Stephen Pearcy(RATT) L A Guns, Judas Priest, Jeff Pilson(Dokken), Slaves on Dope, Taproot, Bruce Kulick(KISS), Grand Funk Railroad, Billy Sheehan, Geddy Lee(RUSH), Tesla, Stryper, Yngwie Malmsteen, Machine Head, Nickelback, Josh Todd(Buck Cherry), Brent Muscat(Faster Fussycat),Tony Harnell(TNT),Mark Reale(Riot), Carmine and Vinnie Appice, Ron Keel and Mark Ferrari(Keel) King's X, The Streetwalkin Cheetahs..These are just a few. He had the opportunity to not only program rocknrollstation.com and his show Rock Talk on KRLA but also do a daily show with rock trivia, news, interviews and voice over work. Creator of the Comedy/Drama radio soap "Hollywood Heights" a radio soap about a band called Christmas living in Hollywood and the ups and downs of trying to make it which aired on KRLA radio in Los Angeles.
Mickey has added A&R to his resume, in 2006. Using his 20 years plus musical experience he teamed up with Hitt Ventures to head their A&R department.
After 20 years the Single "Rock the Box" was re-released on the Cleopatra records box set "Hollywood Rocks" and is featured in the movie "Fancy Pony" to be released in 2007. |
