I have been involved in music basically my whole life. I started taking trombone lessons is the 4th grade and played in every type of school band there was until I graduated high school in 1973. I played in the concert band, the orchestra, the marching band and the stage band, which was sort of a jazz type ensemble with a full horn section.

I started playing guitar in when I was 13 and still play to this day. I’ve played guitar in all sorts of different types of bands and genres. I’ve played hard rock, garage, country, dance, surf, top 40 and dare I say even disco back in the 1970s. I have worked with many great musicians and some not so great. The last band I played with before retiring from live performing was the Surf Kats based in Sarasota, FL. We were a pretty well known group in the area and probably one of the best surf instrumental groups the area has seen. We played anywhere and everywhere. The Surf Kats project came to an end in 2016.

Some time around 2009 I started fiddling around with home studio and digital recording gear as a kind of side interest. It was really cool to be able to make my own beats at home without having a band to depend on. And here I am today still doing it. I have bought, tried and sold so many different pieces of gear by now I can’t remember what all I’ve had.

Music production comes with a very steep learning curve and the learning never really ends; however, I now have a pretty solid understanding of the process. While I don’t know everything I feel that the hundreds of hours I’ve spent in my studio composing, playing and recording my own music are finally paying off. I can now produce my own original musical tracks from start to finish including composition, mixing and mastering.