January 3rd 1979 to Bill "Sputnik" Spooner (Lead guitarist and main songwriter of the Tubes) and Cindi Osborn (Lead dancer for the Tubes) Boone was always surrounded by music. It turns out that babies make great living dolls - and that it was pretty fun to dress up your baby and put guitars and drumsticks on their laps (as the picture shows) because they would actually hold on! It wasn't long before Boone became so used to this that it would feel weird not to have a guitar, mini drumset or cool sunglasses on. This was the beginning of his obsession with music.

Throughout preschool, kindergarten and grade school Boone would learn to play the drums - mentored by Prairie Prince (drummer for the Tubes). Prairie gave Boone one of his first drumsets, and would surprise him with birthday gifts like crash cymbals, drumsticks and snare drums. His first band played his Fifth grade graduation as the students walked down the isle, smiling and laughing. In middle school Boone would form "YouthinAsia" a rock band intent on droney rock music, something akin to Nirvana without the agnst.

YouthinAsia would eventually breakup and reform as "Essential Tides" a three piece that did intellectual power-pop. They would record with Joe Satriani's drummer Jeff Campitelli and play Berekeley Square a few times before they broke up.

Later in high-school Boone learned to play guitar, and would completely ignore his fathers advice, teaching himself to play Beatles tunes from a well worn book. He then was brought in with "Simple" a Marin based "super group" put together by David Jonelis . Simple made a small tour of California, playing the Viper Room and the Martini Lounge in LA.

At college in Santa Barbara Boone joined a series of bands including, Gravity Willing, Orange Glow, VaronSpooner, Shades of Day and Thriving Ivory. It was here that he first started studying Engineering and Recording.

Upon moving to the Bay Area Boone would work at and manage Sparks studio in Emeryville, work with Pyramind Labs in SF and build Studio Hibiki with them. He would then go on to manage SF Soundworks and work with many major label artists. At Soundworks he would learn how to run an SSL 9000j, a Studer 827 and numerous other outboard items, giving him a vast well of knowledge to draw from.

For more information visit his website:

http://www.boonespooner.com