BooBear, real name "William Najera" was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He had a successful music career playing thrash metal during the 80's and early 90's in Bay Area and Los Angeles clubs. He got his start singing in a group called "P.R.I" in San Mateo, California in 1978, which featured Greg Steele of "Faster Pussycat" fame. After a brief hiatus he then joined a popular band from San Bruno, California called "Original Sin" from 1983-1986 and is on the compilation album "Live At The Eastern Front" recorded at Ruthies Inn at Berkeley, California with fellow hardcore acts D.R.I., Hirax, and The Mentors. In 1987 he joined the band "Infernal Forces" and recorded several demos/videos for 4 years. His biggest show with them was opening for King Diamond in San Francisco at The Stone. After leaving the band to pursue a more hardcore scene he met with the mighty guitar/bass duo of Scott Dodge and Lou Gilberto and long time friend/drummer Rob Blasini to form the hugely successful band "POVERTY" (see link)

http://www.metal-observer.com/articles.php?lid=1&sid=2&id=5916

After "POVERTY", he started a band with old "Infernal Forces" guitarist Dave Fraties called "D.W.A." or "Dudes With Attitudes", but it was short lived. He also fronted and played bass for the hugely popular San Jose band "Virus" in the early 90's. He released several albums and videos. He got his start in the sex industry almost by accident when a girlfriend asked him to give her a ride to a "date". Having not known his friend was escorting, she came out with 300 bucks and told him he could do the same thing. Well he took her up on it and was one of the most popular male escorts in San Francisco from 1994-2001. After getting burned out on the scene he decided to do some traveling and came to Portland,Oregon in the summer of 2002. He put together Oregon Tweakin And Freakin Swingers and watched it grow into the biggest and most popular yahoo group for swingers in the Pacific NorthWest. He loves to talk with people so drop him an email or an IM.

Yahoo nic: boobear_in_pdx

email: billy_boldt@yahoo.com

AIM nic: BillyBoldt69