At the time I recorded these demos strictly for copyrights in 2000. I had no formal music or voice training and my guitar skills were limited to a few sporadic guitar lessons, self-instruction, practice as a teenager performing cover songs like the Grateful Dead's "Truckin" and Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman" were popular favorites. I learned on a cheap acoustic and was never happy with the sound of it, I don't think I ever learned how to tune it properly. Once my mom picked up a cheap electric guitar with a mini-amp they found at a yardsale. I started playing that thing like a pro. It was magical as if any little tune in my head magically flowed from my fingers. It was spooky but as soon as I told my mom and tried to show her, the magic was gone and I stumbled over 4-fingered chords again, with my delicate pinky, lol. The guitar and the amp went out the door pretty quickly as I would hardly put it down. I gave away the acoustic after a couple years as I did not enjoy playing it and figured I wasn't cut-out for guitar. There is a 20yr time lapse until my demos when I played an old Ovation steel string a friend gave me. It was his first guitar he kept for sentimental reasons and he had so many since then he rarely played it anymore. It was superficially cracked and everything but I liked the sound of it although it was not as easy to play as the electric guitar I had to play for a couple weeks in my teens. I played it better than I remembered ever playing before. Still limited in practice and skill but I felt at home with it like an old friend. I recorded one other demo with the guitar I thought was decent playing but the song itself is private. My self-taught keyboard skills didn't come until I started to consider songwriting professionally in 1992 when I paid a studio musician/arranger/producer to record "Love Ain't An Easy Feeling". I rejected his synthesized musical arrangement in the hope of finding really talented musicians someday to perform the song properly. I did record a version of "Hold On To Love" with keyboard accompaniment but unable to concentrate fully on either singing or playing at the same time, I prefer the acappella version. Since these demo recordings I've had basic music theory courses, 1 classroom voice course, 1 private voice course, and 2 keyboard courses. I might be a little better for that. I am more comfortable with my voice, guitar, and keyboard talents when I don't try to combine them. Naturally I'm more comfortable with my voice talent since I use that all the time and my guitar and keyboard training and experience is limited to brief periods of my life. I have composed and performed compositions with my guitar and keyboard that are interesting but at this time I have no original instrumental demos copyrighted. I should also note that in my move from Hawaii, and the subsequent challenges that followed here in California, all my instruments and recording tools, with exception of my drum practice pad, my computer, microphone, headphones, keyboard, and my guitar have all been damaged or sold. Only my computer has been replaced so far as music creation has unfortunately taken a backseat to getting a business established. In this economy that has been almost a lost cause.

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