Winter 1952 • Lucia Romana Eugena Anna Maria Sarcletti (Mark's mother) emigrates from her native Austria to Quebec.
		October 18th, 1966 • Mark James Warren born at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Florida. On the same day, the Jimi Hendrix Experience plays its first gig in Paris.
		Christmas, 1972 • Interest in guitar first surfaces. Mother responds with five years of classical piano lessons.
		1975 • Mark buys first LP with own money, The Jackson 5's Greatest Hits.
		1976 • Mother passes along her well-thumbed copy of Robert Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land and takes Mark to his first Star Trek convention, thereby guaranteeing him a future of countless super atomic nuclear wedgies. Here's neat momento from a childhood of geekdom.
		1980-84 • Attends Clearwater High School, graduating with a D+ average. Moves out on Graduation Day.
		1986 • Mark buys his first really good guitar, a Schecter Saturn (aka the Pete Townsend model) from salesman Stevie Burgess at Thoroughbred Music in Tampa. Years later, Mark and Stevie's paths would cross again when Stevie B's Total Guitar opened in Clearwater and Mark worked there inbetween "regular" day jobs.
		1989 - 1992(?) • Plays rythmn guitar and keyboards with psychadelic funk rockers Mod-L Citizen, sharing bills with the likes of Tower Of Power, Marilyn Mason, The Wailers, The Toasters
		1993-4 • Forms Joybuzzer, a jangly guitar pop four-peice andMark's first attempt at playing lead guitar. Records an as-yet-unreleased CD.
		1994 • Joins Motherwit, a proto jam band which featuring two Berklee School of Music grads plus, unfortunately, a lead singer with interests outside of music-making. Nonetheless, a very rewarding experience.
		1995 • Joins the Leonard Croon Band, alt.country/rock mainstays led by Dave Korman. Lotsa harmony guitars and extended jams. Shares bills with Little Feat, Dickey Betts, Kansas, Big Sandy & His Fly-rite Boys, Cigar Store Indians, Zakk Wylde, Wayne Kramer (MC5), Southern Culture On The Skids and Leon Russell plus many others since forgotten.
		1995 • Concurrent with LCB, Mark joins Barely Pink as interrim bass player for a six-month stint.
		1997 • As LCB winds down, Mark joins Barely Pink full-time as lead guitarist. Records three tracks for Elli's Suitcase and writes/records music for Last Day Of Summer ... which are both released just in time for US label Big Deal to go belly-up though they are simltaneously released in Japan on JVC/Victor, making Barely Pink labelmates with Cheap Trick.
		2002-present • Forms The Vodkanauts specifically to fill a support slot for a Dick Dale concert. Click here for the increasingly convoluted family tree.