Going Back In Time,..

And in no particular order,..

At this point I think I should mention that the chronology of my musical life is sketchy and full of holes at best. There are a couple reasons for this. The first is this. In my early years, when I performed a lot, I lost all my pictures, live recordings, cloths, 3 guitars, etc in a fire. The fire was in a fireplace and it was started by an angry girl friend, who proceeded to burn literally everything I owned while I was on a gig. Other than some reel to reel tapes that I don't know what's on them, not much else exists, so there is a big hole there.

The other reason for my inconsistent chronology is twofold. On the one hand, I become distracted into different creative endeavors, to the detriment of all others. I might work in my shop doing intarsia or building furniture, or do nothing but write short stories, or work on one of two novels I'm writing, all the while never touching any of my instruments. And I have other interests also. I do tend to be obsessive when I get involved with things.

On the other hand, I'm a complete failure at self promotion. Other than snapping a few pictures of some of my wood work for a website I once had, I don't do much in the way documenting my life. In all the bands I've played in I have so few pictures because I've never thought about it. Of all the acoustic songs I've written, I've only recorded a hand full, the rest have been forgotten years ago, and are gone forever. With the advent of digital audio workstations, I have gotten better, but prior to that, my chronology is contained in a box full of cassettes.

What's in the box,..

My Father was a jazz musician, and a fine one at that, and he also loved classical music, so I grew up with both of those influences. And even though I cut my guitar playing teeth on rock, I spent plenty of time playing jazz, particularly jazz fusion, and sometimes wore my influences on my sleeve. While not from a box, these two songs were my first experiments with the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) environment, which consisted of a free version of Cakewalk software and a Yamaha SY-22 8-part multi-timbral keyboard. Basically, bear skins and stone knives compared to the recording technology I work with today. The two songs exist only as wav files on a backup drive, so I consider them "out of the box".

I found a cassette of a session I did decades ago for a Puerto Rican sax player. I snatched 3 quick solos off of the cassette. The recording sucks, my playing sucks, but it was a one take, in and out, thank you ma'am session lol.

What It Be

Slow Down

Nuyorican Jazz

I'll add more stuff when I get a chance,..