Huck Flyn
Huck Flyn was born in Evanston, Illinois, on the north side of Chicago…early on, his family moved to southern California. Flyn started playing guitar at age 11 (a Sears Silvertone) and did his first gig at age 13. He was part of a few bands in high school and graduated from Thousand Oaks high school and got an AA degree from L.A. Valley College in Journalism. He received a scholarship to Pepperdine University, which he decided not to take because he was so involved in live performance. He met up with director/choreographer, Kenny Ortega (High school Musical I, II, III) in 1973 and together they wrote the script and soundtrack to Ortega’s brain child, “Bimbo’s Cosmic Circus,” an off-Broadway Rock musical where they had success in San Francisco, Hollywood, and San Diego. After the play closed, Flyn formed a band and rocked in his hometown of Thousand Oaks, Ca five nights a week. He attracted such players as Scott Page (Toto, Pink Floyd, Supertramp), Mike Murphy (REO), Lee Thornburg (Tower, Rod, Tom Petty), jazzer, Richard Elliott, Tim Goodman (Southern Pacific), Mark Andes (Spirit, Firefall, Heart) and many, many others to come join the band…he also attracted some notables to come out, listen, and hang…Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Steve Perry, Steve Cropper, Heather Locklear, just to name a few. In 1977, while attending a L.A. Kings hockey game, he met and became friends with Chuck Barris. He wound up doing several Gong Shows and a Dating Game. In 1985, Huck Flyn, joined the “Otis Day and the Knights” tour in New York in which Dewayne Jesse reprized his “ANIMAL HOUSE” role on the road. They toured all over the country. In 1987, Huck did a couple small films, a record with his buddies (produced by Jeff Weber), and performed on Knots Landing. Nothing came of it and he got very frustrated. Soon after, while visiting a comedy club in San Francisco, he ran into a couple old friends, Bruce Baum and Vic Dunlop and they hooked him up with a guest set at a couple major comedy clubs, and in no time, Huck became a crowd favorite and started getting a lot of calls to do clubs, small concerts, and colleges. With guitar in hand, Huck rocked comedy audiences everywhere. He was known around the circuit as “The Rock n’ Roll Comedian.” A few years ago, Huck hooked up with engineer/producer Earl Mankey and began planning a Blues record called “Huckleberry Blues.” In 2006 he started talking to producers and labels…he is in negotiations with record labels and the project is almost finished.