I prefer using my own name.

I have played in live music situations most of my life. Currently, however, I am devoting most of my time and energies to creating music. Live performance is a very special thing, so I will be doing more soon.

Well, it has released the stranglehold the "music biz" has had on the industry for far too long, hasn't it? This is a good thing, the way I see it. Anything that empowers the artist, freeing him or her up to create without the pressures to make his or her music fit into a predefined niche is good, I think. The music biz is not about creativity or art, it is about packaging and selling product. The current sad state of popular "music" is a reflection of this misdirected mindset.

Yes, but it would be on my terms, not theirs.

This isn't really applicable to an individual, is it?

My early influences were the English Blues artists of the 1960s (e.g., John Mayall with Eric Clapton, Peter Greene and Mick Taylor), and great American Blues artists such as the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, BB King, Albert King, and John Lee Hooker. Eventually I expanded my horizons to include classical guitar, and studied traditional music in college. This had a profound influence on my technique and composition style, which I eventually translated back over to the electric. Much of my music now has a noticeable New Age or Soundtrack quality to it, which is what happens I guess when I combine my early influences with my background in formal music training and exposure to many of the greatest classical composers of all time.

I've been to quite a few nice places on this Earth, but my favorite has to be the Southern Oregon and Northern California Coast.

I have several guitars which include a Fender Strat, a Gibson SG, a Godin ACS nylon string, an Ibanez jumbo jazz guitar, and a Jose Ramirez 10-string classical. I play the electrics through a small Marshall 8020 amp at home or a Marshall VS102R at the gigs. I compose and record my music on a digital-audio workstation that I built. Midi instruments include a Roland GR-33 midi guitar synthesizer, an old (but good) Yamaha keyboard, a Roland JV-1010 external sound module, a Yamaha XG sound card, and an SB Live sound card. All audio chores internal to the workstation are handled by an M-Audio Delta 66 sound card. Software that I use on a regular basis includes Studio Ensemble, Band in a Box, Cakewalk Pro Audio 9, Cakewalk Pyro, and Red Roadster/Samplitude. All the tunes here were composed, recorded, mixed down and mastered with the above software.

Keep in mind that I am having to assign my music to rather narrow classification parameters here because of the way this website is set up. Except the blues tunes I've written and maybe one or two others, most of my music does not fit easily into any genre. The best way for you to decide whether you like it is to listen to it. So listen!