Birthday - Feb 24
Garth started his life in music when he learned guitar at the age of 12 In fact, Garth was a guitarist right up until he joined up with Dean and Russell who needed a bass player much more than they needed another guitarist. Garth's first band was a little unit called Acid Splash which played, as Garth describes it, 'Awful rock originals'. Between Acid Splash and TOFOG, Garth played in numerous bands playing all kinds of styles, including a covers band he played in with Dave Kelly in the early 90's, which had Penthouse Pets as lead vocalists…a career low for both musicians.

In 1986, Garth decided to get his own band together and advertised for musicians. One of the first responses he got was from a young guitarist just off the boat from New Zealand…No, not Neil Finn. They played and recorded songs together for several years but never did a live show together until Russell gave them the call and enlisted them both into TOFOG, which began writing songs and recording with the help of drummer Don Brown.