Jeff Fine (née Fein) began his musical journey at the age of five, when his parents signed him up for piano lessons. He didn’t practice much, and he would often hide under the bed when his piano teacher arrived.  His parents agreed that they probably should have signed him up for karate instead.
Yet it was these lessons that laid the foundation for a lifetime love of writing and performing music.
Jeff ditched the piano for a while in middle school when he realized that playing the guitar was way cooler.  He started strumming his mom’s old classical guitar, and then took some lessons and got pretty good.
Jeff played guitar in various bands throughout high school, and he was also the “first chair” alto saxophone in the Great Neck North High School symphonic band.  Impressive, no? He recorded his first original songs with his high school band Byrdman Douglas, and the recordings were heard by an estimated twenty-six people.
In college at Colgate University, he played guitar in the legendary cover band High Pot Noose, and recorded an EP with his friends under the moniker RP McMurphy and the Boys.
After graduating Colgate, Jeff stated a band called The Gibbs with his college roommates.  The band was named after the drummer’s pet rat, Gibbs, who himself was named for Josiah Willard Gibbs, an American mathematical physicist and chemist, who, according Wikipedia, “revolutionized thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and physical chemistry.”

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