Ed Berghoff

Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Vocals

Ed has enjoyed a very successful career as a Songwriter, Musician, Composer, Producer and Publisher. He cut his teeth with his old band, Hot Lips and Fingertips playing four nights a week for several years at Santa Monica’s famed watering hole, O’Mahony’s. They also performed regularly at clubs like, The Palomino and The Troubadour. That’s where his love of songwriting began. That passion later led to his songs being recorded by Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Billy Ray Cyrus, Doug Stone, Michael English, Waylon, Engelbert Humperdink, Big House and many more. It also led to his moving to Nashville Tn. in 1995.

While living in Nashville, Ed was a signed songwriter and Deana Carter’s (Strawberry Wine) bandleader. Over his career he’s performed at stadiums and concert halls across America and Canada, as well as on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Rosy O’Donnell Show, Nashville Now, The Today Show, The Conan O’Brian Show, Real People, Speak Up America, Farm Aid, etc.

In 2001, Ed moved back to his home state, California. Once home, he was asked to join Eddie Money’s band for a California run, played several dozen shows with guitar great, Albert Lee, and formed his current Country-Rock band, Tex Pistols. They perform all around Southern and Central California. Ed also dove deep into composing and producing music for TV. He now has hundreds of compositions appearing in over a hundred different TV Shows world wide including, Swamp People, Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers, Pawn Stars, Serpent Invasion, Counting Cars, American Restoration, and many more. He also has songs in several notable motion pictures.

 

 

Jim Garafalo

Electric and Upright Bass,  Vocals

While still in his teens, Jim joined David Fairweather, Ed Berghoff and Dennis Dragon to form the psychedelic rock band, “The Bozone”. A few years later, Jim was invited to play bass with the newly formed Hot Lips and Fingertips in which Ed had been playing bass but had switched back to guitar when Jim joined.

After HLFT disbanded, Jim played upright bass with jazz great Dave Mckay. He subsequently played with other jazz musicians such as Ray Pizzi, Tom Scott, Joe Sample, Arthur Adams, Jake Hanna, Bill Perkins, Buddy Childers and Doug MacDonald.

Jim has also worked performed and on TV and movie scores with such Artists as Mark Isham, Jeff Beal,The Alan Parsons Project, deadmau5, Vanilla Fudge, and with his late wife Miriam Mayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Indictor

Violin/Fiddle, Vocals

From his formative years, Mark Indictor’s career has embraced every aspect of musical creativity, from composition and production to recording and live performance on film and television.

Mark’s stylistic repertoire is uncommonly eclectic, allowing him to play and improvise freely in virtually any musical style, from Traditional Celtic to Chicago Blues, from Zydeco to Tejana, and from Country Swing to Big Band, and much more.

One of the co-founders of Hotl Lips & Fingertips, Mark has played with the band since its inception in 1974. In 2001, Mark co-produced and engineered HL&FT’s first album in his home studio, Café Studio (now Dawg Haus Films).

In order to balance his musical career with the need to make a decent living, Mark spent 40 years moonlighting as a Software Engineer and Developer, spending the last 20 years of that time working as a Systems Software Engineer at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He led the team that developed the ground software for the Curiosity (MSL) and Perseverance (M20) Rovers that are currently conducting experiments on Mars. During that time, he maintained his musical involvement, having shared the stage with many and varied artists, including Jackson Browne, Betty Garrett, Pam Dawber, Rod McKuen, Sally Struthers, and Emmylou Harris. His musical theater credits include “Always… Patsy Cline” with both the original Broadway and Los Angeles casts as well as “The Abbey Yard”, for which he co-wrote, co-produced, and performed the score.

More recently, Mark was a long-time member of the turn-of the 21st century band, “Border Radio”, and is currently a veteran of the “Susie Glaze New Folk Ensemble”, formally known as “Susie Glaze and the Hilonesome Band”. In retirement, Mark became the fiddle player for the legendary “Doo-Wah Riders“, touring the United States playing at State and County Fairs, Wild Bill Days in North Dakota, Gilly’s in Los Vegas, Knott’s Berry Farm as well as many other venues both local and abroad.

Mark is currently residing in Los Angeles with his photographer wife, Patricia, and a multitude of rescue dogs. In his spare time, he studies and photographs birds, marine mammals — specifically cetaceans, and is a certified American Cetacean Society (ACS) naturalist aboard whale watching boats in both Los Angeles and Orange counties.

 

 

Daniel Kahane

Violin/Fiddle, Guitar, Vocals

Daniel Kahane is an engaging stage performer, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, recording artist and music producer. In 1974, along with childhood friend Ed Berghoff and school-mate Mark Indictor he co-founded Hot Lips and Fingertips. HL&FT appeared live throughout Southern California and on prime time national and international television. They appeared on the Dinah Shore Show, and traveled to Monaco to appear on the Monte Carlo Show for international television release. With Daniel as front man, HL&FT was the house band for NBC’s Real People and Speak Up America with George Schlatter Productions.

Daniel studied guitar and banjo with Frank Hamilton (The Weavers), and with fingerpicking maven Bob Baxter. In the 1970s he won first place in the Topanga Canyon Banjo and Fiddle Contest in both the Advanced and Professional fiddle divisions, and with The Durant Family in the band competition. He is conversant in a broad range of styles, including Cajun, Celtic, Klezmer (studied with Alicia Svigals), Old Time, Tex-Mex, Bluegrass, Tango, Scandinavian, and Roma.

Daniel worked as a bilingual Master Teacher for the Santa Rosa Symphony Orchestra’s “Simply Strings” program supporting under-privileged primary students. In 2013, he moved to Seattle where he taught fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo and ukulele at the venerable Dusty Strings Music School. Concurrently, Daniel taught advanced children’s martial arts classes at Two Cranes Aikido.

Proudest moments in show biz’: Singing “The Race Is On“ with Dolly Parton at the rap party for Rhinestone Cowboy at Fox Studios in Culver City; Backing up Jackson Brown on “Before the Deluge” at the Coconut Grove in Hollywood. And of course, the fiddle championships!

During Hot Lips and Fingertips ‘sabbatical,’ Daniel earned Bachelors (1986) and Masters (1988) degrees in Geography/Biogeography from UCLA. He then worked as a naturalist, environmental analyst and consultant, field biologist and ecologist, and sat on the Boards of Directors of the Los Angeles and Madrone Audubon Societies. He won distinguished statewide and national awards for teaching science and designing, developing, and implementing large scale bilingual urban environmental programs for the National Audubon Society, the Sonoma County Water Agency, and the U.S. EPA Waterwise Program.

 

 

 

 

Joel Tepp

Slide Guitar, Harmonica, Clarinet, Vocals

Joel is an American multi-instrumentalist (guitar, harmonica, clarinet) with a 55-year history in live and recorded music. His performance beginnings were in American Roots music where he learned his trade directly from older Delta or urban blues masters and various other American originalists. He also received a BA in music from UCLA.

Working out of Los Angeles, he transitioned to folk, rock and songwriter-based music in the 1970s. His recording experience started with The Wrecking Crew and then Electra-Asylum-Warner Bros, playing with a variety of artists from those labels and others. Other activities in the L.A. music scene included his stint as the MC/Stage Manager at The Troubadour for the Monday night talent showcases.  His playing appears on hundreds of recordings, movie and television projects.

Specific association with various musicians or additional details of his past or can be found on-line or through the Freedom of Information Act.

In addition to his performing activities, Joel is a long term voting member of The Recording Academy and recently finished a 10 year period of service on the Board of the Western Region of Folk Alliance International. Prior to his focus on music, Joel was an individual medalist and member of the 1968 NCAA Gymnastics National Championship Team.

Today, Joel resides in Seattle.

 

 

Larry Zack

Drums, Percussion, Vocals

In addition to Hot Lips and Fingertips, during his career, Larry has played with many well known performers and bands, including Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, Phobe Snow, Rare Earth, Jennifer Warnes, Carole Bayer-Sager, Rodger Miller, Johnny Rivers, The Bluesbusters (whose members are alumni of Little Feat, Dixie Dreggs, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne), Catfish Hodge, The Hodge Brothers Band, Savage Grace, Dr. John, Bobby Womack, The Dallas Hodge Band (from Canned Heat).