Lee started playing the piano at the age of 4 when his parents bought a piano for his older sister. Pretty soon, Lee was taking lessons after the folks realized he was picking out parts of songs he had heard. By the time he was 10, Lee was not only his schools official pianist, but also sat 1st chair trumpet in the school band. At 12, he was 1st chair for the California State Honor Band. It was only a matter of time before he discovered rock n roll, and like so many of his age, it was the Beatles who turned him completely into a rock musician, once and for all. At 17, Lee was experimenting with tape loops on a tape machine "borrowed" from his high school, and was an early adopter of synthesized sound by virture of his abilty to create soundscapes by splicing, reversing, and otherwise altering tape. Around the age of 20, he bought his first commercial synthesizer, an ARP.
Lee set out to have a full time career in music and by this time had moved from Bakersfield, CA, to Tacoma, WA. He joined a number of working bands over the years, and while this may not be a complete list, it's pretty close.
Alleyrunner, The Jones Bros, Traxx, Fantasy Force, Funn, Body Parts, Mystery, Jagged Edge, but most notably, The Blue Baboons. The Babs, as their fans new them, had the best show Tacoma had ever seen, with costumes and makeup, computer driven vari-lighting, smoke machines, explosions, and a nearly 100% repertoire of original songs. The Tacoma News Tribune writer Dorian Smith considered them the hope of Tacoma, and it was widely believed they would at any moment be signed to a major label and propelled to world-wide stardom. At their peak, they were seen on Ed McMahons Star Search, MTV Basement Tapes, and had a manager in Los Angeles beating the pavement on their behalf. Internal strife finally destroyed the band, and now, twenty years later, they have never shared a stage again in full. However, various members have played together. Lee and drummer John Fox played with Eddie Gillan and the Cool for while, and had the most splendid experience of their careers when they were invited to play the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco.
Lee had dropped out of the music
business in 1989 to pursue other interests, including raising a family, and
while his first marriage failed, he is now married to Carol, and his oldest son
Keaton lives with them in a suburb somewhere in Pierce County.
In the Spring of 2007, Lee decided to get back in the game, and tried putting
the Jones Bros back together with all the original members. This didn't work out
due to scheduling conflicts, and a short string of rehearsals with Eddie Gillan
also seemed to go nowhere. It was in April 2008, that he first met Jerry
Wainhouse.
Lee and Jerry found quickly that they were kindred spirits, as alike in their thinking as twin brothers, yet at the same time polar opposites. A true ying/yang relationship, they seem to balance each other musically, Lee tending toward rougher edged material, and Jerry leaning toward smoother , more melodic creations.
The band came to a swift demise following a death in one of the members families. Kincaids last show was at Dawsons in Tacoma, which the pictures on this site are drawn from.