MARS ROVERS

The Mars Rovers are a band founded in 2017 in Portland, Oregon. To contact the Mars Rovers write to richard@homerungraphics.net... J.D. grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where the local musical heroes included bluesman Pink Anderson, 1950s rockers the Sparkletones, and the Marshall Tucker Band. The last time he played in a rock and roll band, prior to the Mars Rovers, was in 1989. He spent most of the 1990s in the Pacific Northwest, then moved to California for work during the first Internet boom. He returned to Portland in 2016 with a wife and young daughter in tow. In 2020 he joined with Portland producer Sam Densmore to record six original songs on a record called Camperdown House. He works as a software engineer at Oracle Corp.