Musician - performer and composer (ASCAP). I started piano when I was 8, clarinet when I was 12, and guitar and composing when I was 15 (in 1967 - a good year for music!). I am now the grand old age of 56, and am concentrating on Blues guitar. I was recently lead guitarist of a reformed 60's blues-rock band on Long Island.

I was a music major in college (Colby College in Waterville, Maine) and got my BA in music in 1974 concentrating in composition. I took independent study classical guitar in college from Elliot Fisk (a student of Andres Segovia), and I received honors in it. I taught classical and folk guitar at Colby in 1975 as an independent study course.

Played in several rock groups in High School and College (most unnotably "Frank and The Beans"). However, mostly I played folk music - inspired by Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Donovan, Melanie (who I grew up across the street from), as well as more pop oriented artists, especially the Beatles - most especially John Lennon, plus Cream (Eric Clapton is still someone I catch all the concerts of I can), The Stones, and the general music and culture of the mid-late 60's and early 70's. 1967 was the peak for me.

I was invited into a reformed 60's rock/blues group as Lead Guitarist and singer. I played with them for a year, but as they considered rehearsing to be an interference in their lives, and so, I am looking for new opportunities in my area - to record with or play live -- or both.

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