Barry Berman: Keyboards and Vocals

Barry was born and raised in New York, spending his teenage years in Brooklyn. He began piano lessons 
at age eight, and while in the eighth grade he joined his first band, The Beginning's End on the mighty 
Farfisa organ!! (man, we were so incredibly clever back in those days, weren't we?). 

As was typical for the era, Barry was part of many different groups during the late 60's and early '70's. 
These groups often had similar or even the same personnel, but went by such exciting and memorable 
names as Painted Pride, Salamander, Shakespeare's Bacon Conspiracy, and East River Drive - a Chicago 
clone band that still gets together in New York City for a yearly reunion jam. 

While in college, Barry played keyboards in various bands including Brooklyn's YES tribute group - 
Doctor C, Staten Island's Chalice and Long Island club band, Glass Garden.

During the 80's, Barry was a member of Staten Island's David J. and the Constant Johnson Band backing 
up the late, great David Johnson, and was a founding member of Nite Shift with drummer Kirk Herold. 

Just for the heck of it, Barry took a few years off from the music scene to attend medical school, get 
married, and change his entire life. (Go figure!) 

He and his family moved to the South Jersey area in 1998. 
During the day, he maintains his "secret identity" as a "mild-mannered' pediatrician in Salem, NJ.

Dean Kershaw: Drums

Dean was born in South Jersey.  At the age of 9, he began studying the drums under the expert 
tutelage of longtime jazz musician Harry Dee, who taught him the art of the Rudimental Snare 
Drum at a competitive level.

During the 70's and 80's, Dean moved on to some early classic rock type bands here in the South 
Jersey area and later teamed up with a college friend and bass player to form a Ray Davies/Kinks 
cover band called Rocker.  Soon after he took a turn at some progressive/alternative bands including 
the high energy force of Manic.  

During the 90's, Dean settled in with a few classic rock and blues type bands. More recently he has 
been working in the studio laying down some tracks with the very talanted Mike Marino and his Restless 
Soul.  

By day Dean might be found most anywhere in North America providing his engineering services for the 
paper and printing industries.

Bob Roomet: Bass  	

Bob Roomet was born in Philly and grew up in the suburbs.  He learned to play guitar and bass while 
in high school and played bass in a band for teen dances and proms.  After graduation from college,
he traveled the country and then returned to Philadelphia to play music and repair houses.

In 1974 Bob joined "Silver Moon", an original folk/rock group that played the Main Point and live concerts
on WXPN and WMMR radio stations.  Then, in the late 1970's came the crazy world of rock and roll and
slightly demented sound, light, and road crews.  Over the next several years Bob played full time in the 
Tristate area as a member of "Saja", "The Gang", and "Friday the 13th"; appearing locally (Dr. Jekyll's, 
The Liberty Bell, and The Penalty Box), the "bars from Star Wars" tour(Starlight City, The Galaxy, Satellite 
Lounge) and the bleary-eyed shore points (The Gables, Tony Mart's, and The Dunes till Dawn).

In the mid 1980's the music again became original with two groups, "Asylum" and "Moving Targets", 
playing the Philadelphia "original" rooms (J C Dobbs, Grendal's Lair, The Khyber, Dick Lee's, and The 
Empire).  Then, the 90's began and everyone thought the world had settled down a little bit, but the phone 
rang and Bob was again on stage with "Frayed Knot" playing Brownies, Whooters and The Pennant.  He 
rounded out the decade with "Question of Balance" playing every weekend in clubs like The Blarney, 
Tom and Jerry's, and Maddies.  
Hat's off to the late Jim Hansel, drummer and vocalist extraordinaire

Now, after recording with E.D .Ward on the "Surfing with the Sharks" CD, Bob has joined "The Slick 
Rhodes Band" to have more fun playing good foot tapping music. 

Jeff Smith: Guitar and Vocals.

J. D. Smith’s vision of heaven is to be playing his Tele (or Strat, or Les Paul) while riding his Triumph 
(or Harley).  Born in Woodbury NJ in the early 60’s, he acquired his first guitar, an acoustic, at age ten,
a gift from his grandfather who played accordion and organ at home for fun. Music runs deep in his 
genes, his great granddad having supported the family in the 20’s by playing violin with various 
orchestras in the Philadelphia theatres and in summer orchestras in Ocean City.  He even played with 
Jack Benny for a time.

Jeff first played electric guitar at 15, after receiving a semi hollow-body as a gift. This was the same 
year that he bought his first motorcycle, a beat up mini bike and thus his life started on an irrevocable 
path of bikes and bands that continues to this day.His first band, Izzard Hemlock - with high school 
friends Don DeWitt, and Bob Haury - played Black Sabbath to the garage walls and (thankfully) no one else. 

In the early 80’s he and friends Jimmy Burns, Frank Lucas Tom Cirone, and Eddie Byrd formed 
Fallen Angel, and played the likes of Judas Priest and Ozzie at parties and bars in the 
Woodbury/Deptford area.Violation, an 80’s band with Matt Demonic, Mike Jewel and Scott 
Palmer morphed into the very popular 20:1 band in the 90’s, singing originals and covers and playing 
such auspicious arenas as Nellie’s, Spuds and Suds and The Galaxy.

In 1994, Jeff joined Shady Characters, lead by Vic Monaco with Andy Palermo and Chris Gabris and 
spent five years perfecting the tight three-part harmonies and crisp arrangements that made them 
a popular rock, blues and soul band in bars and clubs all over South Jersey and PA.Before joining 
Slick Rhodes, Jeff played with Second Hand Smoke for 2 years, behind the sensational vocals 
of Donna Davis and company. As a local boy with a lot of connections, don’t be surprised to see 
Matt (20:1) or Donna (Second Hand Smoke) sitting-in for a song or two whenever Slick Rhodes hits 
the stage!

In his day job, Jeff turns peach orchards into housing developments. 
Uh... Wait a minute! That's not what we meant. 

What we really mean is: 
Jeff is a builder and site safety director for a national builder that offers partially wooded 
luxury home sites among fields of permanently preserved pristine open space... 

Yeah, THAT'S what we meant.

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