the internet gives musicians ways to develop grass root appeal.MP3's give listeners more control over their music. IT reduces the importance of radio which is just the same 400 playlisted songs at any given time spun by the same annoying DJ's with incessent interruptions for idiotic contests and weather and traffic reports

i have not given it much thought.

believe it or not, i started as a drummer. now i have morphed to the point where i compose ambient music and most of my songs have no drums in them.I used to program on a Roland boss DR-660 drum machine and I played a Yamaha electronic keyboard before moving to computer based soft synth music with Acid,Orion and Native Instruments,etc/

space music,ambient soundscapes, new age, experimental...tangerine dream, klauz schulze,spacecraft,john serrie,james johnson,kitaro,david sylvian,mozart,tsyhaikovsky,david bowie,talking heads,patti smith, the clash,early 80's new wave one--hit wonders,molly ringwald/john hughes movies,U2, daniel lanois, pink floyd,the beatles,,john lennon,george harrison, the who,led zeppelin,the kinks,

where i am right here this minute

ORION PLATINUM 5.8; ACID PRO 4.0;Sound Forge 7.0 N.I.Absynth 2; NI PRO52;VirSyn CUBE 1.0 KORG legacy cell, various other VST's and directX plugins.