I've been playing guitar since I was 15, um, that's over 30 years now. I'm glancing over at my acoustic I've had since 16 and my electric I got when I was 17. They both have some nice wear on them. I've gone through lots of phases in my playing. The last dozen years or so I've been into finger picking and some slide on the National Resonator. I grew up in Texas and have always been influenced by country blues as well as rock and pop. The last few years I've begun integrating western music with Indian music in a sort of east-west expression of the same devotional feeling that blues has at it's roots. The bottom line though is that I approach each song as an expression of a particular subtle energy state, and I try to achieve a balanced spectrum rather than have all my music sound the same. Just like in cooking: you want to have all the different tastes (sweet, sour, salty, spicy) present in a good meal, but you don't want them all the same in every dish. When I've prepared my dish, I offer it to Krsna. My music has gotten much better, and I've gotten more relaxed since I began chanting: Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare It's really amazing how many different melodies you can explore with those simple magical words.