A Lifetime of Music
Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember.
From the time I was a child, I was fascinated by the sound of instruments and by what happens when musicians come together and somehow turn a collection of individual sounds into music. Over the years, I have been fortunate to play with many talented musicians and friends who inspired me, challenged me and shared that experience with me.
There was never any fame or fortune. That was never really the point.
What mattered were those moments when a band suddenly became tight and hot—when the drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and voices locked together and everyone seemed to know instinctively where the music was going. Those moments of musical synchronicity are difficult to describe, but anyone who has played in a band knows exactly what I mean.
Preserving the Music
Throughout my years of playing music, I had a habit of recording almost everything I could.
Rehearsals in basements and garages, informal jam sessions, studio recordings and live performances were captured on whatever technology was available at the time—cassette tapes, reel-to-reel, cameras, video recorders and, eventually, digital recording equipment.
I did it because I knew that once a rehearsal or improvisation was over, that particular moment would never happen in exactly the same way again.
Decades later, those recordings have become something I never anticipated: a personal archive of the musicians, bands, friendships and music that have accompanied me through much of my life.
This website is a home for that archive.
Some of the recordings are polished performances. Others are rough rehearsals, unfinished ideas or spontaneous jams. Some of the songs don’t even have titles because we never gave them one. That’s part of their history.
They are moments in time, preserved as they happened.
To Everyone Who Was There
This website is dedicated to all the musicians and friends who shared the journey with me.
To everyone who stood beside me on a stage, squeezed into a rehearsal room, carried amplifiers up and down stairs, spent endless hours in recording studios, played until ridiculous hours of the morning, or simply picked up an instrument and said, “Let’s play”—thank you.
Many years have passed, but we still have the music.
And that is really what this website is about.
