Attended and graduated from Irving High School with Frank Beard, future drummer with ZZ Top, and the late drummer, songwriter, and vocalist Doyle Bramhall of the Chessmen and collaborator of Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Nearly 50 yeas later, met and befriended Doyle Bramhall's grandson Doyle Bramhall III, an aspiring actor and musician, on the set of Season 3 of HBO's "The Leftovers" being shot on location in Lockhart, Texas. He was an extra as well.