Jimmy Doom's first performances were for people his mom brought home from Detroit's renowned jazz clubs Baker's Keyboard Lounge and Dummy George's. Not possessing the talent to be a jazz musician, he went on to be the vocalist of legendary Detroit punk band The Almighty Lumberjacks of Death while occasionally appearing in independent,underground, straight to VHS "cinema". After the band's breakup and a brief tenure on an axle assembly line, Jimmy took advantage of an indefinite layoff to return to acting. The first "name" actor he had the privilege of working with was David Carradine, whom he met virtually seconds before they began their first scene in a film now known as "Dark Fields". Doom also appears on the cult horror "skit-com" The Ded Dave Show, does live spoken word and improvisational performances and writes for the comic strip Broomhead.