My endeavors sprung from a love affair with the guitar. I sang soprano in a boy choir when I was really little, but music was really something I thought you just listened to... until I saw the 1986 movie Crossroads. The bluesy/shred head-cutting duel filled me with this energy, and when it reached Eugene's Trick Bag, my mind was blown and my outlook forever changed. My next birthday yielded a Peavey T-60 and a couple months worth of lessons. I stopped playing when I discovered computers at 12, but picked it back up again around 16 and had to completely re-train myself. Gave it up again about 7 years later when some bad luck prompted me to sell my instruments to pay the rent. Picked it up again in 2010 (again having to completely re-train myself). I'm still not back to the proficiency level I'm comfortable with, so I'm focusing on composing while I regain my lost abilities.
Well, right now, the music I'm composing requires a number of instruments, and I'm not working with anyone else at the moment... so my current pieces I'm not performing live. Playing a solo guitar with no accompaniment doesn't really draw big crowds, so I typically restrict that to playing short sets at open mics (mostly neo-classical and instrumental... Joe Satriani, Beethoven, etc).
Steve Vai, Al Di Meola, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, W.A. Mozart, Orb, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Dream Theater
Hardware: Ibanez guitars and cables; Peavey amps; Dimarzio strings; Yamaha keyboards
Software: Audacity; Reason 5
