This page is here mostly as a place to send friends when this part of my life comes up in a conversation. I still noodle on my guitar but I had ceased pursuing Music as a profession by 1995.

From about the time I was ten years old I wanted to be a Rock Star. As I grew up, that dream matured into the desire to be a capable musician and composer. I never did become a rock star, and despite some modest success, compared to the talents I look up to, I wasn't all that capable as either a musician or a composer. It's hard for me to listen to the music I created without wincing but I wouldn't trade those times for anything.

I spent my early twenty's, in the early 1980's, in NYC playing in bands like The "Radiant Boys", writing, and doing session work. I was a pioneer in the realm of digital synthesis, sampling and digital recording. This, all in the day when it cost over a million dollars to build a studio that today could be done for less than a tenth of that (with money worth half as much). I remain grateful to the NYC Public Access Arts fund that provided professional audio and synthesis facilities to poor artists like me for cheap. In those days there really weren't any schools where one could learn any of this stuff, and I could never have afforded them if there were. I drove a taxi and a bakery truck and spent every spare penny I had on studio and rehearsal time. The PASS studio allowed me to go in, write and record for projects for a pittance. It allowed me to learn, and earn a name for myself of sorts.

I worked my way up from no budget projects to a real career and a record deal. I did sell somewhere north of a hundred fifty thousand records which wasn't bad in the electronic music market back in the early 80's. And I did participate in some really cool projects. At one point there was a bin with my name on it in every Tower Records and I had a video in rotation on VH1. A minor success!

Looking back, there are some great guitar bits on the "Prometheus" album and the Fractal Music was visionary and ahead of it's time, but I still cringe when I hear a lot of this stuff.

Other projects...

Worked with major label recording artists as a Fairlight Computer Music Instrument operator in the “80’s” (Kurtis Blow, Psychedelic Furs, Nile Rodgers, Lou Rawls, Michael Gore, Missing Persons, and others).

 

Composed music for “Elephant’s Diary”, a short film by Bob Nixon. 1987

 

Founder and Co-owner of record label “Deep Music” and publishing co “Blue Orb Music”.

 

Produced “Real” the first commercial recording from Mary Lou Lord in 1994.