On this page, I'll introduce myself. I'll talk about the bands i have played with and how i have ended here,playing the fafisa organ for "THE FRANTIC FIVE"...
...i ll try to describe some cool moments i had playing the organ at several shows,talk about my music influences,favourite artists and bands,dreams and whatever else keeps strolling cross my mind...

...i am D R . O R G A N ...i was born in Thessaloniki,Greece on 28th April 1979...

i started studying music when i was 7 years old with a maestro of a phillarmonic orchestra...my first instrunment was a tube bass!i can remember a day that i was going to my music class and i had to wait outside my maestro's office because he was busy doing something...there was a piano somewhere there at a corner...having nothing else to do,i sat before the piano and started touching the keys...i began playing the music task(a march or a minuetto-cant remember exactly now) that i was supposed to play it with my bass...my maestro heard my playing on the piano and came out of his office,trying to figure out what was happenning and who was touching his precious piano...hehehe!!! well,i thought at that time that i was in trouble since he heard me and he was coming out on me but...,he actually got excited with what he had listened(at least this is what he had told me then)....he asked me if i could play what i was playing before for one more time...so,i did!he couldnt believe that a 7 years old boy,that never before in his life has ever touched a piano,was actually playing a Bach's minuetto on it!!!

...after that he called my parents and suggested to them that it would be the best for me to leave the phillarmonic orchestra and go to study a different instrunment that has to do with "keys"!!!i guess he meant anything like the piano,the organ,the mellodica,the accordeon...my mother had an accordeon since 1963 and told me that since she couldnt afford buying me a brand new piano or an organ, i should study the accordeon...(as i have discovered many years later,the majority of the greek organists of the 60's bands were actually playing the accordeon before the began to play the organ!!! (destiny or what???maybe...why not?)

and thats how everything began!!!

..after i ve finished my classical studies on the accordeon ,i started playing the organ...i ve tried some jazz styles on the organ cause i guess jazz is more relevant to classical music,comparing to other music styles...then i jumped into the blues...oh,yeah that was something!!!having this base for my soul(thats the blues,of course!) i started playing rock of the 50's,60's and 70's...

It was that time when i bought a cheap and simple synthesizer and formed my first band with my classmate Vasilis Mpampaniaris who was and still is one of the greatest guitar players i ve ever met...we were just 15 years old...the band's name was "NOTABILIA" and the rest of the members were Giorgos Tampoukos(bass),Andreas Logothetis(drums)...our style was a mixture of psychedelic and classic rock,blues and soul of the sixties era...we had many originals but we were also playing a lot of songs from different artists and bands of that period:"THE DOORS","PINK FLOYD","JIMMI HENDRIX","THE ROLLING STONES","DEEP PURPLE","THE STOOGES","SANTANA BLUES BAND","TEN YEARS AFTER" and many others...

After that i played the organ for the "RODES" as a session organist for some shows,supporting some of the most well-known rock bands in Greece("XYLINA SPATHIA","TRYPES") which i personally dont like their style but the guys from the "RODES" were friends and so i accepted their friendly invitation to participate in that project...the rest of the "RODES" were Stavros Loumpardias(bass),Dhmhtrhs Thomaidis(lead guitar(ok now?),back vocals),Andreas Logothetis(drums) and Nickolas Roumpekas(rhythm guitars,vocals)....

...all of the above had taken place at Loutraki...then i came to Thessaloniki where i met Kostas Kilonis who was working at a rock bar as a d.j...he told me that he had a band and he may needed a new organist cause there were some changes at the band's roster...so,i joined the band...this band "THE MINES" was the band were i met Kostas Kapetanakis who was playing the bass and Giorgos "the animal" Vogiatzis who was the drummer..."THE MINES" was a 60's-like band whose style was something between 60's garage&punk,blues and soul...

...Kostas Kapetanakis was actually the guitar player of "THE FRANTIC FIVE"...he introduced me to the rest members of the band(Alex Klimentopoulos who was playing the drums,Manolis Hatzidakis the bass player,Chris Kyriazis the vocalist) and since they had already heard my playing ,they decided that i should join them...and so,i did...i am the organist of "THE FRANTIC FIVE" since December 2000...