As a musician, he has worked with David Bowie,[2] Iggy Pop,[3] Ric Ocasek, Richard Butler, The The, They Might Be Giants, Melissa Etheridge, P!nk, Christina Aguilera, Seal, and Sheryl Crow.
[4] He would spend time listening to his older sister's Beatles records, and those were formative musical experiences in his early childhood.
Schermerhorn attributes his keen interest in the electric guitar to an early experience listening to Led Zeppelin's 1969 song "Whole Lotta Love".
with two of his fellow students at Berklee College of Music, lead singer Cinde Lager and bass player Akio Akashi.
The band was never signed to a label, but they had recording sessions at Syncro Sound in Boston; David Robinson, the drummer for The Cars, produced those demos.
[4] When East of Eden broke up, Schermerhorn relocated to New York City, and started finding work as a session guitarist for TV commercials.
In spring 1991, another fellow student of Berklee, Reeves Gabrels, called Schermerhorn and asked him to audition for David Bowie's group, Tin Machine.
[5] He wrote and recorded with Iggy Pop from 1992 to 1995, and his songwriting and guitar work can be heard on the albums American Caesar and Naughty Little Doggie.
[3] Schermerhorn also played on Ric Ocasek's fourth studio album, Quick Change World, released on September 28, 1993.
Through a connection with manager and former 'Til Tuesday drummer Michael Hausman, Schermerhorn met Matt Johnson, who was in New York, looking for a guitar player for The The.
He played with the band until December 1996, and his work as a lead guitarist with They Might Be Giants can be heard on the albums Factory Showroom[8] and Severe Tire Damage.
Schermerhorn met Eagle-Eye Cherry in 1998, and he wrote and recorded for the album Living in the Present Future, released on March 6, 2000.
In February 2002, Schermerhorn played with Marianne Faithfull once, at the opening of an exhibit centered around the work of Andy Warhol[4] at the Tate Modern in London.
[11] As a voice actor, he has found work in the animated sitcoms Family Guy and American Dad!, as well as providing voiceover for The Doctors,[1] and for various advertisements.