It's my name...the logo is intended to help with the pronunciation of my last name. The "i" is long so it sounds like "pie-at". I don't know if the logo helps but it looks kinda cool...or not.

Yes, I'm currently playing with "Lady Chazz and The Tramps". As you might guess, I'm one of the Tramps.

It's changed the way music is marketed to the consumer. It seems like we're getting further away from the "concept album" and it's related artwork....which was the norm in my youth. Now it's individual songs and band websites that the listener connects with.

As for someone like me...I can throw stuff in and out of the "collective" whenever I want. I'm not selling anything since the quality of my recordings wouldn't warrant that, but I can use the internet to express myself in many ways...for better or worse.

Probably, but I'm not holding holding my breath! It would be cool if an artist who IS signed recorded one my tunes...but my songs are so quirky and personal, I can't see that happening either.

It seems like I've always listened to rock and roll in some form. I remember when I was young kid that older kids in our neighborhood were always listening to the latest pop songs. Later, my older brother started getting into Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, Alice Cooper and other wonderfully strange acts. I always listened to his records but when I saw Kiss on the Paul Lynne Halloween special, I totally flipped. It was the same kind of thing that happened in earlier generations when kids saw Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones or whoever on TV then went out and started a band.

That started my own muscial journey at the tender (yet ripe) age of 13 years old. I quickly got into the usual 70's rock music...Zeppelin, Nugent, Aerosmith, Heart, Queen, Thin Lizzy, etc. I also really connected with the southern artists like Skynyrd, Blackfoot and Molly Hatchet.

Later I got into the early 80's metal bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, and the like.

Toward the mid to late 80's I got into the jazz/fusion artists of the day: Allan Holdsworth, John McLaughlin, Al Dimeola, Pat Metheny...etc.

Through it all I lived a fairly normal life and played in cover bands off and on.

Now I'm trying to let all those influences work together and come up with some stuff of my own...with mixed results!

Lake City, Colorado.

Ibanez and Fender guitars...main axe: Fender Lonestar Strat