Huck Flyn

Huck Flyn was born Johnny Daniel Flynn in Evanston, Illinois in the 50s...at two years old, his family moved to southern California. He started playing guitar Christmas of 1962 and played his first gig in June of 1963, at an 8th-grade graduation dance. Flynn graduated from Thousand Oaks high school in 1969, in the same class as Kurt Russell. In the early 70's, after a brief stint in the U.S. Army, he met director/choreographer, Kenny Ortega in San Francisco. Together they wrote the script and soundtrack to Ortega's brain child, "Bimbo's Cosmic Circus", an off-Broadway rock- musical, with which they had some success. After the play closed, Flynn formed a band and went and played venues in his hometown of Thousand Oaks, Ca. as well as, in and around the L.A. area at the Troubadour, the Sasch, Palamino, Central, Coach House, and more with such heavy weights as, Scott Page (Pink Floyd, Toto, Super Tramp), Mike Murphy (REO), Lee Thornburg (Tower of Power) and several others. In 1977, while attending a L.A. Kings hockey game, he met and became friends with Chuck Barris. He wound up doing several Gong Shows and a Dating Game. In 1985, now Huck Flyn, he joined the "Otis Day and the Knights" tour in New York City, in which actor, Dewayne Jesse was reprising his "Animal House" role out on the road. Huck Flyn performed on an episode of CBS" Knots Landing in 1987 and shortly after, while visiting a comedy club in San Francisco, began doing stand-up as "The Rock n' Roll comedian, which he has done for over 15 years.