Member Profile
Born
in Houston during the LBJ administration, Heider did little of note until
he was around 8 years old, when he picked up a crappy 6 string lying around
the house and learned to pound out the chords to the "Sloop John B". Realizing
that Leo Kottke's "Vaseline Machine Gun" was out of his reach, he rested
on his laurels until the age of about 13 or 14, when the Butthole Surfers,
Black Flag and Scratch Acid convinced him that more had to be done. The
teen years were marked primarily by cheap beer and unrequited love, and
membership in a series of ambitious but talent-free bands. Faced with
an early exit from high school, he was confronted with a terrible choice:
go to college or get a job. Choosing the former only to postpone his inevitable
capitulation to the latter, he changed majors several times, ultimately
being forced to leave the University of Texas after accidentally completing
the requirements for a degree in history. Once he discovered that living
in Austin for a few years neither increased his musical talent nor made
him employable, he returned to Houston and joined the Linus Pauling Quartet
in 1994. Here he found solace, and bandmates who would tolerate (within
limits) drunken stupidity and 25 minute guitar solos. Released in 1999
to the custody of his lovely wife, Carol, he has managed since then to
live a relatively stable and productive life. He currently earns a living
by "fixing" computers but is considering outsourcing himself.
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