| My
name is Lothar Struff. I was born in Germany and emigrated to Ohio when
I was six. I'm a musician with ecclectic taste. I started out emulating
the BEATLES. Garage bands were formed and disbanded depending on which
phase I was going through. There was the James Brown phase, the Hendrix
phase, the Crosby, Stills & Nash phase....you get the idea. My
formal music education consisted of two years spent at Berklee College
of music in Boston which I abruptly quit in 1971 to form an acoustic
trio with Robert Terry and Jim Stein touring college coffeehouses. A
show band (yuk!) was next. Then a call from PUZZLE, a band signed to
Motown, brought me to Los Angeles in 1973. California immediatlely felt
like home and still does. I love the weather, the mountains, the ocean,
and the diversity. The next phase was
"surviving" in Los Angeles. For a while I was a singing waiter at a
restaurant which also happened to employ a wonderful singer named Amy
Holland. In 1976 Amy, Robert Terry, and I decided to exit the
restaurant business and formed a group. We landed a gig at a great
little joint called Josephina's which became our home base. During that
time Amy went on to record two albums, one of which was produced by Michael McDonald. In 1979 Robert and I started touring with Paul Williams
(I don't have enough room here to list all his hits so you'll have to
visit his website). Working with Paul has been and still is a pleasure.
In 1989 I was offered the position as
music coordinator of "The Bold and the Beautiful" which leads me all
the way to the present. I've gotten back to writing and at this time
Robert Terry and I are proud to announce that our CD has been released and is available at our Struff & Terry website. |
