Born: May 18, 1966 Primary Instrument: Guitar
I'm really fortunate...music (playing, writing, recording, arranging) is all I do for a living...
My instrument is guitar, but I compose at the keyboard, play drums and bass (started as a drummer)......and arrange professionally for just about every instrument......
My main musical styles are fusion, jazz, prog, blues...but I play just about everything, not to limit myself...
My influences are very diverse, but fusion being the main thing: Scott Henderson, Mike Landau, Pat Metheny being the main ones...
I taught guitar and theory privately for 4 years from 1992-1996, going to students homes...
In 2002, I was very fortunate to have my CD “released” on Allan Holdsworth's label, Gnarly Geezer Records...
From that release, I received some great feedback from Steve Vai, Brett Garsed, Derryl Gabel, Shane Theriot, Greg Koch, Rusty Cooley...
In 2003, I switched labels and was officially signed to Progressive Arts Music, and re-released the C.D. in October 2003.
For this re-release, I went back into the studio and wrote 3 bonus tracks, and beefed up the guitar parts and the overall mix, making it a much better disc...(I also enhanced the C.D. with about 80 minutes of bonus mp3s in CD-ROM format, and 3 live video clips)
I was very fortunate to have released this new version to some very encouraging reviews...
I have recently confirmed my line up for my next C.D. to be released late summer 2005 :
...Dave Weckl's keyboardist Steve Weingart,
...Steve Vai's and Planet X drummer Virgil Donati,
...as well as Planet X bassist Rufus Philpot,
...and Tribal Tech bassist Gary Willis,
...OHM and Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland will be doing a guest solo on one track,
...Bassist Gerald Veasley will be doing a duet with me on one track.
...legendary Nashville Bassist Keith Horne will be playing one track.
Producer/engineer Anton Pukshansky, is aboard also...Anton is a Grammy award winner for his work on Santana's “Supernatural”.
