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Berton's love affair with popular music began the day he was born. This is due, some say, to the fact that he was born with a transistor radio glued to his ear. It was to this lucky state of being in the 1970s that Berton ran smack into Doug Fieger and destiny.

Aside from being a very talented vocal arranger, his renown with a guitar has led him to tour with the likes of Robbie Krieger, Bette Midler, the Cowsills and Sarah Brightman.

In the 1990s he made a conscious attempt to break free into a new entertainment field. He started to write screenplays. He developed a screen play with his friend Tom Schulman, the Oscar winning screenwriter of "Dead Poet's Society" and "What about Bob?". Tom thought the screenplay was very good but Berton wanted to stretch his compositional skills even further. He also wanted to utilize his vast background of different styles of musical _expression. Musical Theatre seemed the perfect fit. This idea led him, in 1993, to the Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Workshop in L.A. Where he states, he learned "the ropes, the ABC's, the nuts and bolts of writing for the musical theatre stage."

Says Berton, "It's a remarkably rewarding and remarkably difficult artistic discipline. When it pays off and a hall full of people laugh at the right time, and lustily cheer a song, the goosebumps I get as a writer rivals anything I have every gotten as a rock and roll performer."

It's at the Lehmen Workshop that he met up with Rob Muerer. He and Rob Meurer have written three musical comedies. The first show, "The Party's Over," received productions in Chicago and La Mirada. The second show, "Jungle Man! ", has had two hit productions at Stage One in Wichita, in 2000 and 2002. "Robin Hood: The Untold Story," is the teams third effort and was the hit of the esteemed ASCAP/Disney Workshop in 2001. They are currently working on a fourth.

"Musical comedy," states Berton, "is most likely what I'll be doing for the rest of my life."

Berton hails from Van Nuys, California and was born December 13,1953.

Prescott Niles
Bass Guitar

In addition to being a much sought after instructor for piano, guitar and bass, Prescott Niles has brought his classical training and rock & roll sensibilities to many projects outside of his work with The Knack. 

Prescott was thrilled to play on George Harrison's "Shanghai Surprise" record and contribute with ex-Sex Pistol Steve Jones to the "Miami Vice" soundtrack.

Prescott recently served as the Performance Supervisor for the television show "Fame LA" and produced a soon to be released piano CD by Lisa Hilton.

Prescott's activities aren't limited to recording.  He has appeared in the movies "I Crave Rock and Roll" as well as the classic coming of age picture "Valley Girls" starring academy award nominee Nicholas Cage.

When he is not involved in a multitude of charity works, you can hear Prescott on The Knack's new album "Zoom" (for which he contributed two songs) and in performance with Rick Springfield.