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ProgRock Records

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About Me


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My family is my life, I have a son and daughter and am married, little else gives me as much joy and grief as those three, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I love music, I've been playing piano since I was 5 and was in many bands through my teens and twenties, somewhere along the way I became a computer geek and founded a software company which I still run, but in 2002 I got back to my love of music and founded my internet radio station www.progrock.com which quickly morphed in to my record label www.progrockrecords.com where I subsequently got to meet almost all my musical heroes, only Tony Banks is left. In 2004 I launced Mindawn (www.mindawn.com) a digital music distribution service to compete with iTunes and now in 2005 we're launching some new genre specific records labels at www.therecordlabel.net. I also love science fiction, books, movies, TV, even if it is bad, I've read about 10,000 books over the years and I just can't get enough of it.

My Interests

camping, hiking, biking, reading, golf, playing any music instrument laying around

I'd like to meet:

I've met just about everyone I've wanted to, the only person really left is Tony Banks from Genesis. If you're reading this Tony, call me.

Music:

Make it prog and make it loud

Movies:

Team America - I've never laughed so hard in my life

Television:

scifi, even when it is bad (which Star Trek certainly became)

Books:

hard scifi, ancient manuscripts, astronomy

My Blog

Happy Pi Day

Yes, this is the day when people around the world try to recite as many decimals of Pi as possible, the world record is something like 45,000 places.  I do want to brag about my son a moment as last y...
Posted by ProgRock Records on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:44:00 PST

How to submit to a label

Myspace is a great networking place and I've discovered much goodness here, but I also can't help by be frustrated with a lot of the emails or comments I get from bands that presumably are interested ...
Posted by ProgRock Records on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:41:00 PST

Alternative theory for weather patterns

Ok, stick with me on this one, I've been thinking about it for years, but a bit of background is required.  First let's talk about coincendences: How often have you been thinking of someone, and then ...
Posted by ProgRock Records on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:52:00 PST

SciFi and prog

Ok, I haven't blogged in a long time, been so busy with all the amazing releases we've been putting out, but I'm gonna talk about something else today.Anyone that knows me at all, knows that I am a ha...
Posted by ProgRock Records on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:42:00 PST

Global Warming

Much has been said about Global Warming of late, and the whole dialog has turned in to something like atheists versus christians, everyone has their own set of proof.  All I know is that when I was a ...
Posted by ProgRock Records on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:40:00 PST

Digital Download Services

Yes, there are a lot of them and iTunes is the 800 pound gorilla and yes I run one was well, but we also put our artists out on all the other systems.  I don't tend to pay close attention to all the a...
Posted by ProgRock Records on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:13:00 PST

Music sharing

I've had the most amazing email conversations the last few days regarding the legality of music sharing. Now my basic opinion is that younger kids find nothing wrong with it more than adults think th...
Posted by ProgRock Records on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 04:51:00 PST

How does music piracy affect music sales?

First let me say that I'm totally against theft of any kind, stealing software, music on the internet is theft, it doesn't matter if it is easy to do, most moral people wouldn't walk in to a store and...
Posted by ProgRock Records on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:04:00 PST