It's my name. It's the first name in the name book.

Sometimes. Yes I like it, I play classical dinner music live sometimes, but it's a dying thing. People listen to stuff that leads them into dangerous thoughts for the most part (if they listen to mainstream big-name music) and can't appreciate stuff that's from the heart. It seems to me the prevailing attitude is "If it's not instantly gratifying, it's not worth listening to." ...and that's sad, by the way. The mind is like a muscle, the harder you work it, the stronger it's going to be. You can't enjoy things that require muscle if you don't have an adequate amount of muscle to begin with.

It makes it more accessible. The ways we listen to music have always changed, when it comes to the formats and mediums we capture it on and communicate it with. The big-money mainstream music industry MUST change to suit the technology. The industry does not own music, we ALL do and to think otherwise is pretty sad. Music is for people to enjoy however they want to and not according to specific rules set out by some money hungry corporation. Deal with it, it's inevitable.

No...
Major labels and record companies think they "own" music, and they try to make us believe that their artists are larger-than-life and inaccessible. "Better than you or I" seems to be the attitude. We are led to believe that music belongs only to them. Wrong! It belongs to GOD and it belongs to US!!! We, the musicians who struggle with everyday life in dead-end low-paying jobs, we, the ones that pour our hearts into our works, the ones who stay up late making sure that the sound is decent. The ones who know what kind of stuff our grandparents listen to. Definitely NO record contract for this guy! And btw, I'm using a bunch of pirated tools. Yes, yes I am. Let me tell you though, that if it weren't for these pirated tools, the companies that make them would not have my business. At all, ever. But now that I've been able to actually run these tools through their entire capabilities, I've made a list of the tools I plan to keep... and it's a substantial list. A shopping list that never would have existed. So in fact, the companies I am going to buy these tools from will be receiving my payments... thanks to file-sharing and pirated software. As I said, these are sales that never would have existed otherwise. If you scan a photograph of the Mona Lisa, is it stealing? Does it detract from the value of the original painting in any way, shape or form? Big Brother and it's minions of lemmings have created "the media" in its present form, NOT for the sole purpose of bickering about who's is what and what this and that means. It is to convey their message of a world minus God, slowly but surely, piece by piece, like the frog in the boiling water story. If you put a frog in cold water in a pot, and put it on a stove to heat the water, the frog will stay in the water until it is too late and it dies from the heat. BUT, if you put a frog into water that is already boiling, it will hop out and live. That's the game they play but substitute our souls for the frogs, and substitute our current state as human beings living in sin for the boiling water.

I've played the piano since the age of six, guitar since the age of fifteen. I don't know how long I've played drums for, on-and-off since the 1990's... ummmm I was born and raised in a village, grew up fast on the city streets, went down some wrong roads, went down some right ones. I hope music can continue to be the right road for me. I've been in countless jam sessions and half-hearted bands, They were all looking for the things I was not looking for. I just know it will lead to questionable places and events... so I'm in the music thing completely solo. That way I am deciding what kind of energy gets into the music... for example: if I hired a guitar player and while he's recording his track let's say he's thinking of stardom and getting high and hooking up and wishing he could be "all that"... Well, I'm suspicious of the dark energy that his thoughts would convey into the music, as it would be captured in the song... and every time the song plays it's like a doorway for this energy to jump out and instigate more of the same energy in other people. Forget it, it sounds crazy to a lot of you but some of you know exactly what I'm talking about... PM me if you do... I wanna hear from you.

My influences range from the death metal and punk rock I listened to as a teenager, to classical greats. I drifted to the dark edge of rock and roll for many years, but the classical music never really disappeared at all, Mozart being my favorite classical musician. I of course give all the credit to God for the gift of music, and every musician who ever walked this earth, and every mathematician since Pythagorus discovered that wavelengths are purely mathematical, soundwaves included. It's because of thinkers like them and the hard work of countless people that digital recording exists today, and is accessible by a great many of us.

The Slough. It's a well-worn party spot where the Thompson River goes around a big old corner, and there's a bunch of backwater swimmin' holes. HAHA I remember going around the corner on the far side, on an inner tube with no lifejacket. That was a bit scary.

All ten of my fingers, one electric guitar and two acoustic ones, a bass guitar, a cheap microphone, a semi-weighted 88-key velocity-sensitive midi controller (used to be called a "piano" or "keyboard" wayyy back in the 20th century!), a PC from 2003 running at 1.53 ghz with 1.5 gb ram, two screens, a 4-channel pre-amp, a home stereo amp for monitoring, and some knock-off 8812 Linear Phase studio monitors.

If you don't like my music, oh well... waaah or whatever. I build it for God in the hopes that He will like it, I did not build it to please people... I enjoy it, my grandmother enjoys it, and that's all that matters really.