Please join us on Sunday, June 25th, 2017, for a screening of the documentary A Life Well Played, plus I’ll be performing a set of music with Matt Senjem, Micheal Bissonnette and Gregg Inhofer. Click here for tickets. Click here to view the A Life Well Played trailer. Click here for more details.
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When you have been at something as long as I have you come to a point where you begin to closely scrutinize what, if any, impact your life’s vocation has had on the world at large. I began playing guitar at the age of eight. I joined the Musician’s Union at age fourteen when I commenced playing professionally. So I
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I recently saw the documentary, “Jaco:The Film.” Most everyone knows that Jaco Pastorius was an electric bass virtuoso. He was sort of like the Jimi Hendrix of electric bass. But his life was a short and tragic one. He lived fast, played hard and died young as the saying goes. Seeing the film made me think of a childhood friend
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I’ve added the track Tango Blue to the download page. Click here to visit the download page.
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Ambrose Bierce is one of my favorite writers. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” totally freaked me when I was a sophomore in high school when we read it in class. And I have been a fan ever since. The title of his biography is “Alone in Bad Company” which is a title I covet and can absolutely relate to
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Inspiration is something that I think is commonly misunderstood. Many people think that music is written when a flood of ideas comes to the writer like a thunderbolt. Once in a great while this sort of thing may happen but the old adage about inspiration being more about perspiration holds true. Personally I have to write four pieces of music