Trained in Classical Guitar in youth; played Drums and Percussives in teens(self taught natural at complex beat/rythyms).
Trained in live sound reenforcement under Wally Dugood (Engineer Supreme, mixed live and broadcast 30 years for Billy Gram); trained in the studio under Buck Herring (Produced Helen Redding and Second Chapter of Acts 13 years). Worked support staff for labeled/touring Christian Rock forefather Jerry Williams, band Harvest.
Retired from Insurance industry and took 3 years studying, teaching myself through extensive experimentation to program, play and edit synths, sample loop construction, etc.
The -IF- Factor
"My life was fraught with angst and turmoil. I ended up homeless, hungry and alone. Through the course of recovery I embarked upon a path of spiritual awakening. A path which has taken me the length & breadth of our nation as well as into remote and unusual places throughout the world. I've lived in a Bamboo Hut in the mountains of the Philipines, travelled the country backroads of Kasacstan, and I've been held at gun-point by a gang of stoned Mexican Army-men. For a man once dead, I've lived quite a colorful life of exploration and discovery.
In 88' I moved from West Palm Beach, Florida to live among the peaceful, rolling wooded hills of East Texas. I now own all that I possess and live a life free from debt.
I was trained in Classical Guitar in my youth, but hated it because it made me a fag within my circle of friends. In my later teens I got into Drums and Percussives and was a natural at producing complex beat/rhythyms I employed played in a progressive band for a short while. When our guitar player left for college that ended my dream of headlining alongside King Crimson, Genesis & Gentle Giant. He was a rare genius I'd liken to Jocko, Hendrix, Santana --- their instrument reflects their spirit and soul without the burden of thought. I've never met another like him. It was like a miracle passed through my life breifly. But was thwarted from acheiveing full manifestation.
I had travelled in Christian Missions/Ministry/Music circles for two decades. Though only part of the support staff, I worked for a labeled artist (Jerry Williams; Harvest) on and off over a period of 7 years, which convinced me to pursue the life of a Composer/Musician over public performance. I trained in live sound reinforcement under Wally Dugood, famous also in the Christian industry (mixed for Biily Gram 30 plus years) and has engineered systems around the world. I also trained briefly in the studio under Buck Herring (Second Chapter of Acts), who before entering into the Christian rock scene had to his credit producing for Helen Redding (I Am Woman). (Second Chapter & Harvest are the forefathers of Christian Rock).Yet during this season my path remained centered on being a servant to the poor, taking homeless and addicted men into my own home, providing them with an opportunity to get their life back on course.
Though these opportunities to segue into the music business appealed to me greatly, I was not yet ready to quit doing the things that gave my once diminutive life such great meaning. But after 20 years I was more than a little burned out by the contradictions of Church politics, attitudes and behavior that so greatly contrasted my heart, thoughts and insistance in love, gentleness, forgiveness and acceptance, which are the cornerstone of the spirit life. So I quit the religion and will never again subject myself to the insanity of it.
In 2003 I invested in the construction and furnishing of an Art & Recording Studio, and set out to capature that previously lost life-long dream. Last year, I quit my lucrative professional career in the Insurance Industry, and began the process of turning the amazing sounds and music in my mind into an audible reality.
What you will find here, in my work, is the culmination of my lifes experience and the realization of that once lost dream."