michael griffen michael is one half of noggin in high school he played guitar in a country band called "The Ridgerunners" he became an english teacher then he became an painter in 1969 he bought a sound on sound reel to reel adam (his 8 year old son) joined him on some of his sound experiments about ten years later, michael became a drummer about twelve years after that he started playing violin with bellingham band "WEEHUGGUM" (he'd been dabbling in the fiddle for 20 years or so) eric was weehuggum's guitarist noggin was born...