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"theSoundBytes" is an experimental effort designed to test the limits of digital music and Internet technology in the creation, production, marketing, sales and distribution of music. It is also an excuse for an old school rocker and his friends from the glory days to make the kind of music they always wanted to make and get it out there to the public.

The kind of technology that can be setup in a spare room by anyone with a good sense of rhythm, and bought outright for under $1000 is beyond the wildest dreams of those of us who remember the early days of stereo, multi-tracking and the lost art of the manual flange. Back then, if you were a band trying to make it, you were either a nobody or a slave of the record companies. It took lots of money to produce an "album" as we used to call them. That meant, you HAD to do whatever the record companies wanted you to do and that meant imitating whatever the musical flavour of the month was.

Now, everything has changed. We are free. Just how free we really are is what this experiment is all about. Problem is, how to make a living doing this.

So, lay back, relax, put on a good pair of headphones, roll up a fatty and just listen.