

Patti graduated Scarsdale Alternative School (the experimental community school slightly smaller, slightly "hipper" than the larger Scarsdale High) and like rockers John Lennon and Keith Richards pursued a career in the visual arts. It was at NGSW she met Dave Greenberg, a then aspiring student of music production. The summer of 1988 she attended the National Guitar Summer Workshop, which would later prove to have been an excellent move.

She was raised in Scarsdale, NY a suburb famous for a diet doctor's homicide. Pepper", but the first she recalls buying at the mall is Culture Club's "Kissing to Be Clever". The first record she remembers putting on the stereo is "Sgt. A voracious music fan, she listened regularly to AM radio (".honey you are my shining star."), classic rock ("I'm Not In Love", "Good Times Bad Times"), WLIR's new wave ("Lets Go To Bed", "Cities in Dust").
