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MOST OF MY TUNES IN THE PAST 3 YEARS HAVE HIT THE TOP 40 WITH ABOUT 4 OF 45 ABOVE 100. 10000 page views last year. AFTER 2 YEARS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC & GUITAR and graduating in May, I WOULD PLAY EACH OF THESE TUNES A LOT DIFFERENT BUT KEEP THE HEART OF THE MUSIC. I will record some new stuff pretty soon. Engineering will be more like New Visions.

I have been most fortunate to have a great classical guitar teacher. Dusty Woodruff is the protege of the great John Sutherland of UGA. John studied with Segovia, so I am basicaly getting it from the horses mouth.

News flash! In Discovery Channel a topic "Insecure minds find patterns in life", caught my eye. It resolved a problem that I was unable to explain for my humongous manic episode in 1977 diagnosed as schizophrenia for 8 years. It seems that when people are subjected to large amounts of stress, ( I lost my girlfriend and dad pulled me out of UM and more...I was depressed) they try to find order or have hallucinations or distortions of reality. My mind did two things that day: at first I thougt I was Jesus and devised a plan explaining that premise until I remembered the Word and knew he had already come....maybe I was the second son never mentioned. I said no! So I must be the anti-christ and rationalized it till I was wacked out manic so bad that I was classified as schiz.

I have been in remission since 1997. My gpa in three degrees is around 3.8 even with all my hobbies. Now I can end my first series of of the book "The Invisible Prison" in a year or two with keener insight.

My new studio group is burning!!! Really fine musicians that will do well in the studio and live. The saxist is a Parker and bop fan but blows pretty much anything. Joel Cruz is much like Andy Snitzer(UM Rolling Stones) was at the same age. The other guitarist is a friend from UM Matt Whittington. The drummer is like Billy Cobham and handles freaky time signatures like a clock-Mike West. The bassist, Devron Roof, is 22 years old and is frigging awesome. Has studied with a UM classical bassist and with Mike Frost who studied with Jaco and Pat Martino. So more music is just around the corner.

We put together a two hour show of jazz/fusion for a summer concert, but got rained out. We had McLaughlin's The Way of the Pilgrim note for note, Jeff Beck's The Pump note for note, and Cobham's Heather for five instruments and a tribute to Michael Brecker-Timeline.

Awesome Artwork by Daglas Svorcina on the music page mp3 player. I met him at UM on Varts Bridge doing his thing. His 50 second minute-waltzes are done with krylon? paint and their caps, pie pans, and a few spatula on high quality poster board. I had this scanned on a $50,000 digital scanner at Augusta Blue Print. It picks up subtle nuances on the original media. How many characters can you find in the pic? The Ghost? The lower half is not here. Contact Eduardo Minera at Eddie Brooklyn Commercial Art & Multi-Media in Miami, Fl., E-mail: eminera@eddiebrooklyn.com for his art.

Create a demand! He is the #1 in his field in the world, his colors and imagery are not over the top like the rest I've seen.

*****Don't think I have gone classical because of the recent output. I have just this in my head for umpteen years. I hear symphonies of my own in entirety at times and my mind just alters them at will while I enjoy them. This doesn't happen all the time. I am still committed to fusion and rock.*****

Bio:
I grew up cutting my teeth on Hendrix ( I had over 30 legit and bootleg albums) and then found Chick Corea's Return to Forever group in 1973. I was 19 and it was a over my head. Now I can play it as long as I practice hard. I am kind of like Pat Metheny in that respect. Then came hearing Miles (Bitches Brew), John McLaughlin and seven semesters of Studio Music & Jazz education at the University of Miami, Fl., undergradute, and an MBA in the Entertainment Industry 2000.

I have played with some notables including Rob Chiarelli-engineer/mix artist(Madonna, Will Smith MIB's, Leanne Rymes, Janet Jackson, Coolio, Boys to Men, Ray Charles and many more) google him, and Dag Kolsrud of Norway's AHA (google him). Dag was talented enough to play with the Dregs. Also, Graham Hawthorne-Blood Sweat & Tears in the '80's played on a session. He now plays drums with Paul Simon, he is killer. Saw him with Clapton and Bruce on the Tube. Other aquantances are Andy Snitzer who plays sax for the Stones ( His jazz cd's are on CBS ) and a friend of Dag's, guitarist Tim Mitchell (took my place in Rob's & my group, Inferno, at UM). Tim has written Grammy award winning songs for Shakira. I still have the 24 trk. master tapes of my UM studio bands which I will transfer to Pro Tools soon and master. I had one session set up with the great bassist Steve Bailey '82, Steve tours with Victor Wooten from Bela Fleck sometimes, and his friend, drummer Rob Cargell. He read this ultra fast bass line based mostly on a diminished three octave melody, first time through. Unfortunately our recording session was cancelled.



One of my jazz guitar teachers, (google) was Stan Samole (check out his CD's, he is so gifted). He plays a lot like McLaughlin during the Shakti era, he plays effortlessy and with great feeling, he and Debbie Spring-violin, had a great acoustic group, he taught Pat Metheny (who taught at Miami in the 70's), Steve Morse, Hiram Bullock, Peter Harris of Bruce Hornsby, and the Range (All UM), and many more including Randy Johnston who plays/records with Rufus Reid and vice versa. Randy is a deep thinker who ponders -onion dip circling an eliptical planet in the Alpha-Centaury quadrant. This guy's playing is scary! Randal Dollahon taught John Hart of the Miami Sound Machine and turned out many more monsters. Check John out on his CD's, He blows away John Scoefield big time. Guitarist Andy Timmons is a UM grad. Also Matchbox 20 are alums.


***In two years my best music dream for a fusion group is to tour summer with Billy Cobham, Jerry Goodman, and Rick Laird and play a few of the Live cuts from MVO, Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer, & Rick Laird,***

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In two or so years I plan to tour in the summer with my old UM studio and live band members. Scheduling may be tough, but there are plenty to ask. Some are/were with Clapton (Graham Hawthorne), Paul Simon( Graham, Andy Snitzer-not in my band), Rolling Stones (Andy), Will Smith (Rob Chiarelli), Chuck Mangione (Steve Pronk-bass, and I think Paul Anderson-sax), I knew Van Romaine a little from Steve Morse, and other top acts or were with AHA (Dag Kolsrud) and One To Many. Jim Progris, my UM-MBA Entertainment Industry director played piano (awesome) with Rick Laird-bassist from John McLaughlin & the Mahavishnu Orchestra, at the Doral Country Club in Miami, after the break-up. I would love to have Rick tour with me. I hear he is a professional photographer in NYC now. We could open for any of or multiple of the top acts listed. One of my UM MBA-Entertainment Industry friends is or was departmental Executive VP with Clear Channel. These guy can smoke any kind of music.

****Google-Laz Hernandez for some great Contemporary Christian music. Laz was my vocalist at UM. Is working with a world renown rock producer. His father played with Dizzy Gillespie. Real treat. Google him.*****

***Thought.....If it is determined that we use only 10% of our mind for brainpower, then the other 90% must have been reserved for our best memories for those who live a long and Godly life. "The Invisible Prison" copyright 2006 MJ Rhoden***

Recently I watched Yanni on ETV. His fusion is really nice and I like the large format, great violinists. Although my new music is not new age it is more sonically palatable than my simpler arrangements here.

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An excerpt, in my book (autobiography), "The Invisible Prison", is about time and dimensions. I have always read philosophy since a teen and have studied through the calculus and statistics at the graduate level. Einstein was searching for a unified field theory based merging the force of gravity with the electromagnetic forces. In the 1920's a new theory came about. It was Quantum mechanics. Einstein continued on his path, many say he was a dinosour no longer in touch with new findings. Einstein belived God made the universe in a simple fashion. All physics boiled down to one building block. In the 20's the atom was discovered along with the strong and weak atomic force. Einstein paid no attention to these forces. British physicist, Stephen Hawking, said that if the strong force was just a little weaker the whole universe would be hydrogen...one proton..one neutron..one electron-three basic parts. Of course there are sub atomic particles though and anti-matter. In 1985 I deduced this but did not know the math or theory.

In the Quantum world there are many dimensions. I guess this supports the evolution guys. In Q all things happen at random. So humans developed at random from primordial dust. Later, String Theory was developed. These things look like circles, strings of light, that forever fluctuate in their perimeters shape while basically remaining a circle. This is the current theory of the most elemental particle.

Well, I have a theory of how they both co-exist. Strings are the smallest particle and the Quantum world exists also simultaneously. What has not been taken into account by these men is that God is in control. In Quantum where there are many dimensions, God has created this for his use and for people of faith. In this way all things are possible through faith, and God can alter an existence through the Quantum world he has set up. This explains why the history of the world is and will be but in an infinite set of choices and God's ending of the world will come as he want it too, after the dispensation of time and Grace. Einstein was correct. He was a man of faith. Copyright (c) 1997-2006 "The Invisible Prison"

In 1981 Howie Zandman CPA, of Atlanta and Philadelphia, offered me a chance for an artist management contract. I filled out about 15 pages of questions. He was the CPA for The WHO and his friend, Dr. Fred Birnbaum of Philadelphia who was my student and introduced me to him, told me YES also. When Keith Moon drove the car into the pool in Vegas, Fred said Howie wrote the check to get it out. About that time I got a letter from UM offering lender of last resort if turned down for financial aid. I took that and met all these great guys mentioned earlier. My group Inferno was with Rob Chiarelli, Ed Mongillo, Laz Hernandez (Laz's Dad played congas for Dizzy Gillespie) and in the studio version Dag Kolsrud, Graham Hawthorne, Mark Johnson; I approached Howie in 1982 about a deal, but he had left the biz because of problems with an up and coming group gaining some international recognition. He offered any other help needed though. He is now a board member of the Georgia Society of CPA's. I had to leave the group to work a regular job then I came home the next year after a Financial Aid snafu that left me out of school for 7 years on an owed deferment. I did owe a small sum but should not have at all in the short run. Finally after many calls the UM Treasurer wrote me and forgave all the debt with an apology. It was as much a a semester of tuition to Harvard in 1982.

I met John Curtis, former manager of Steve Morse & the Dregs, in 1985 and we paled around a short while and recorded a gospel group with great potential.

Meeting John was a trip. I was sitting in at a blues club when John walked in as I set up. He asked, I thought in a smart way, "Can you play that guitar?" I said, "Listen and you tell me." Well he had a few drinks and I just ignored him. After the set he said I would like to buy you a drink. I said, "Ok, how 'bout a coke." A coke?" he asked..... He said do you know who I am. I said Yes, you told me John Curtis. "That's right", he said. This went on a few times. Then I had a epiphany and said!!! "You're John Curtis". "That's right, thats what I've been trying to tell you son" he said. Well the next week he dragged me out of Surrey Tavern in Augusta, GA to go next door to a new club being remodeled. He said he wanted me play for his friend the owner, Bobby Campbell. He said just play anything. I got on stage and played a long, long version of something like the song here "Swords of Fire". Bobby asked him what the hell was that as I reached the bar. John said, "I don't know Bobby..., but only him and God knows!". John went on to be VP of Capricorn A&R in Nashville and signed Wide Spread Panic among others. Before that he sold pre-owned tennis shoes on Hilton Head and Kiwi farmed with Dave Loggins. There's more later.

Rock DJ Mike Dineen (NY,NY to Southern stations)in 1991 (old tapes) said that, "Mike sounds like a wired Eric Johnson." I did not play guitar from fall '94-fall '99 because of shock treatmentsfor deep depression due to my father dying suddenly. It cost me going into business in his CPA firm, and becoming a millionaire in a few years. Damn the devil!

For five years I did not touch a guitar, it was alien. Then in summer 1999, Kynch O'Kaine, a UM guitar instructor, unbeknownst to him, gave me exercises to do, to start to rebuild my motor skills.

In 2002 John Norris and I had a #1 hit on MP3.com. It was for the instrumental rock tune, But For Grace. We had many in the top 100. That was even before I knew what real mastering was. We were lucky.

John has helped me these last four years and he is the groove monster. He reminds me of a percussionist I worked with from Sarasota, FL., Ed Mongillo. Ed is one of the finest percussionists bar none. He reminds me of Steve Smith of Journey with his rock steady grooves, but he handles odd time signatures aplumb like Stuart Copeland. Both are super creative. John has been studying for the last four years with Tom Knight in Atlanta. Tom is rated one the top percussionists in the world and played with Paul Schaffer on the Grammys three years ago. He also is a regular session percussionist in LA. John is now nailing the Vinnie Coaliuta type drums style.

This music was mastered by Mike with Har-Bal V. 2.3 and it, according to Earle and Paavo the owners, it is off the hook. Just tried the beta and it is very simple to use. There is a step-by-step tutorial. A MUST HAVE for any engineer. Click on Reg.net and download a full 8 bit demo of Har-Bal. Try it, you can tell. SECURE CALL





In 1976 I started to have depression which led to an intense manic attack. During the day of September 25th 1977, I said something to the police that captured me, (I could not kill myself so I wanted them to do it- my girl friend at UM said she did not think I would ever do anything to hurt myself. Those words saved my life.), what I said would change my life for years...even now. It was not true but you can read in the "Invisible Prison." I thought I was one of two all powerful beings, one evil or one perfect, I was petrified, I did not want to be either, it is convoluted....In the backseat of the police car the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, "I will heal you". But he did not say when. I am back!!!
Poetically speaking my Classic 1977 Mercedes 280SE is nearly restored.

Please contact me if we have ever known each other. I look forward to hearing from you.

MJR