Michie's first foray into the professional scene was at the age of seventeen with his group "The Grapes Of Wrath", a big part of the music scene around Madison, Wisconsin, USA from 1965 until 1968 when they disbanded. Michie's reputation as a lead guitarist led quickly to a position with the "Mendelbaum Blues Band". With Michie and drummer Keith Knudsen at the helm "Mendelbaum" quickly became the number one group in the area, with Michie claiming the position of the hottest new young lead guitarist around. By 1969 the group had exhausted the possibilities of recording and performing in the American Midwest and they headed for the San Francisco bay area that summer.

Mendelbaum was quickly accepted as one of the front runners of the San Francisco sound in the late sixties and early seventies, playing all the major venues and opening for such groups as Santana, B.B. King, The Youngbloods, and The Velvet Underground. Mendelbaum disbanded when Knudsen joined "The Lee Michaels Group" and Michie moved on to play lead guitar for the San Francisco based folk-rock group "Lamb".

It was in the early seventies that Michie began to emerge as a session guitarist, recording with such artists as Boz Scaggs, The Pointer Sisters, Link Wray, Jerry Garcia, Stevie Wonder, Jesse Colin Young, David Soul, and Van Morrison. Michie also toured widely with Van Morrison, David Soul, and The Pointer Sisters all through the seventies and eighties. It was while touring and recording in Holland that Michie developed the relationships that eventually led to his recording deals, first with WEA Records in the early eighties, and then more recently with VIA Records.

All through the years that Michie had worked as a sideman he never forgot his dream of getting back to the sound that had first attracted him to rock and roll. Hundreds of songs written and as many as seventy-five recordings of the best of those songs still failed to achieve the sound that Michie was looking for. Michie spent countless hours attempting to recall the emotional impact of his early influences, and many more hours in the studio trying to get that sound. Only through regaining his memories of that impact, Michie felt, could he hope to truly express what drew him to that sound when he was young. All along he knew it was something that couldn't be expressed in words, but that he would know it when he heard it.

The album "Guitars And Oranges" on VIA Records was the first in a series of CDs reflecting Michie's search for that sound. He soon followed up with "Following Old Joe Clark", "The Night Flight", and "Seven Rivers". Using the tools of sequencing and MIDI, Michie felt he was finally able to gain control of the sounds he was hearing. With the addition of his very capable lead guitar work and acoustic guitar textures, Michie felt that he was finally beginning to achieve that long elusive quality of the music that first attracted him to electric guitar back in the sixties.

Michie's 1998 album "Tough Love" was born of a desire to get back to the roots of blues and rock that characterized Michie's experience in the late sixties and early seventies. The CD was recorded with no MIDI instrumentation and Michie used a stable of great musicians such as Jef Labes, Jim Rothermel, Tim Larkin, Billy Lee Lewis, Paul Revelli, Pamela Rose, Andy Kulberg, Kevin Pallidini, and Jim Reitzel.

Michie's latest CDs, "Seven Rivers" and "The Goyer Golf Suite" were released in 2001. "Seven Rivers" is the natural extension of "Tough Love" but with a blues/rock twist in songs like "Seven Rivers", "Mean Old Woman", and "Ireland". The Golf Suite was compiled for the Goyer Golf and Country Club in Holland. It includes twenty-one of Michie's rock guitar instrumentals, recorded since "Guitars And Oranges". It is receiving rave reviews.