I think as a guitarist Gary Moore, Brian May, Ritchie Blackmore, Mick Taylor and Michael Schenker were my biggest influences. As a song writer definately Alice cooper, Gary Moore, Queen and Queensryche.

The coast of Maine in the Bar Harbor area where my family is from. Especially the Town Of Blue Hill Maine.

Guitar: ... Warmoth hardtail strat with 2 EMG Humbuckers and homemade stratoblaster replica, Daion Power Mark XX With Duncans, Artec QDD2 pre-amp and Artec BCU active tone control, Jackson Kelly with Duncan MT Black outs , ESP MG-350FR with EMGs, 18v and an EMG PA-2 pre-amp, ESP MH-750 with EMGs and PA-2 pre-amp, Ovation CS257 acoustic, Fender Tele Custom modded with a baritone neck and two Seymour Duncan humbuckers, wired for stereo or mono, and 2 Artec QDD2 pre-amps (only one used in mono) Mesa/Boogie SOB 100/60 watt head, Egnater Rebel 20, FRENZEL FM - DP1 Dual Pro One custom build tube guitar pre-amp (with a two watt class A outpit tube) , Marshall Stereo Tube pre-amp, POD 2.0, POD XT Live, Sansamp GT2, Home built TS replica with mods, Boss CH-1, MXR Dist +, Digitech Screaming Blues, Boss NS-2, Radial ABY box, Radial re-amper, Ted Weber Mini Mass Attenuator, Peavey CS400 power amp, Crate 4x12 Slant cab with Celestion G35s, handmade (by me) 12/11 hammered dulcimer with 2 piezo pick-ups.

Soundcards:...Emu-1820, Presonus Firestudio, Edirol Ua5

Music software : ...Samplitude 11 Pro, FL810 Producer, Sonar 5, Adobe Audition 2.0, Ext, Native Instruments B4II, AAS StrinStudio, impOSCar, Minimonsta, Oddity, M-tron, Sytrus, Waspxt, VSampler 3.5, Pure Basses Volume 1 & 2, Jamstix2, DrumKit From Hell Superior, Drumkit From Hell 1, Jamstix 3, Voxengo Voxformer, Voxengo Crunchessor, Voxengo Elephant2, Voxengo Pristing lite, Voxengo Lampthrustor, Antares Autotune 4, Antares Avox suite. NI Guitar Rig 4, Waves GTR 3.5, IK AT3.5, Yellow Tools Independence 3.0 pro.

Keyboard: ... Edirol PCR-5O Controller, Roland A33 Contoller, Roland XP-10. Alesis QSR, 360 Systems 8x8 midi patcher.

Rack:.. Aphex Aurel Exciter, Alesis Midiverb 4, Peavey Delta Effects, Presonus Blue Tube Pre-amp, Rack Rider, Monster Cable Power supply,

Monitoring:...Tannoy Protoj monitors, 2 pair Beyer Dynamic DT770 headphones, Audio Technica ATHmf40 headphones and Sony MDR7506 Headphones.

Mics:...Akai ACM 80, MXL V67 mic, MXL 909, Shure SM57, Guage ECM-87

Dedicated audio PC:
Dual Processor Desktop
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz
Motherboard: ASUS Core2 Duo Motherboard
Memory: 2GB DDR2-800 : 2x1GB
VGA card: ATI Radeon X300SE 128MB DVI/VGA
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Optical Drive 1: NEC 16x Dual Layer DVD Burner
Optical Drive 2:
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Primary Hard Drive: 160GB SATA II (Primary Drive)
Operating System: Windows XP Home
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Audio Hard Drive: 500GB SATA II (Audio Drive)

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Samsung 22" widescreen monitor and Presonus Firestudio soundcard

During the 90's up till now I have spent my time learning to write, engineer and produce my own music. I have a nicely equipped home studio and am constantly perfecting my guitar playing as well as have coming into my own as keyboardist.