Jay Salam:
Jay started playing guitar at age 14. By age 17 he was already in his first professional group,
"Johnny Carroll and the Texas Moonlighters". By age 19 Jay had already recorded with Johnny and appeared in the movie "Rock Baby, Rock It", now a cult classic, even scoring some original music for the sound track. Shortly after this, he appeared on a tour with Johnny Horton.
After a stint with the Air Force, he became a factory representative for Rickenbacker guitars, traveling in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada and California. During this time he met Roger Shaw, a fine vocalist and rhythm guitarist and Sam Desmond, Roger's bassist. The three later worked in the San Francisco Bay Area as a trio.
After a couple of years in the Bay Area, a recording opportunity opened up in Denver, Colorado. The next few years saw Jay as a part owner in Summit Studios, as well as performing nightly and eventually putting together the well remembered group Synchrony, arguably the best show group that Colorado has ever seen.
Jay subsequently appeared in several other groups including Impulse in which he worked with Patty for the first time. Several groups later Jay and Patty were still together in more ways than music, getting married in 1976. A four piece group named Perfect Match that was doing very well, but proved to be a revolving door for drummers and bass players, was the final straw for trying to keep together competent, sober and serious musicians. From that four piece group came the duo which is still together today. They kept the name and it has proved to be true.
