Songwriter, guitars, plectrum banjo, lead & backup vocals

"He picked up the guitar in 1965 at age eleven and didn't look back". At that time the great guitarists where over the age of twenty and ageism was very prevalent so if he was to learn a Chet Atkins lick he would have to get it from George Harrison. Fortunately when he lived in Stockton Ca. he lived next door to a real R&B band this was pre Beatle era Rock & Roll, and was probably the single reason he became a musician. When you're about ten years old and live next to a great band who's members let you attend their rehearsals you're gonna want to play music. It was one of the members of that band who told Hodge that he had perfect pitch., " After they discovered that he had the ear they taught him the names of the notes to him. "In about a month he had the different pitches memorized". Then they would tell him " Hey Perry hum an A# etc". He would nail it every time. Hodge claims to have opened for hundreds of major acts including The Tubes, Scandal, Robin Trower, to name a few.

Hodge was voted best male vocalist, and best guitarist, by his peers in an awards benefit for the club The Wild Blue Yonder., a nightclub with a 30 year history. Hodge currently uses a custom stratocaster with Texas special pickups, for acoustic guitars he uses a martin 125 and a Larrivee D-03 with an Engleman spruce top. He has added one solo cd and one movie score to his list of accomplishments.

Hodge admits that he did look back and in earnest when he realized that he could not write what he thought was a good song. "That's when he became pretty much obsessed with the songwriting. I can tell you I've written some of the worst songs you never heard. What he is doing now is playing with the best and most loyal musicians he has ever known. The chemistry of this band is nothing short of perfect says Hodge "I can write my songs then bring them to the band they breath fresh breath into them". We twist up the arrangements then untwist them this process we call reverse mutilation. In other words we tweak the tunes until they are flawless, from our perspective.

Our 911 memorial song was conceived and nurtured for a year before any lyrics, the words just would not come. He had both the verse and chorus melodies finished and even the arrangement was done. Then the 911 trade center attack happened. He completed the song the next day in less than an hour. This weird order of events convinced he that I was not really the owner of the song, just the delivery man. It's humbling to write what you consider to be your most important song and realize that you could never really own it, and that actually it wrote itself. Like any good song does, the person making the notes is just the fortunate one that has his or her receptors pointed in the right direction. This stuff is in the atmosphere people are the musical instruments the things we call instruments are lifeless until we pick them up and give them life, and use them to mirror life. True?