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Zen Meets Dogma

Life, love, and the pursuit of beautiful guitars…

About Me

Where to start, where to begin… The guitarist and his love for music and all things art and, or, expression.
Pretty simple stuff here, I am a musician Guitarist/Composer and this is my music profile. There are samples posted here of different projects I have performed in over the years. My current project soulObjective is in the studio recording a new album (scheduled for release in 2008). The musician line up consists of members from the original Aerial formed back in the late 80’s.
As things evolve, updates and additional link information will be provided. Until then, I am interested in meeting and making new friends with similar musical and art influences, likes, and, or, dislikes. Feel free to speak your mind and be you!
I began playing guitar at the age of 14 after my friends convinced me of stardom and of course, all of the girls… It wasn’t long before the aforementioned became a reality resulting in a lifetime pursuit of creating and performing. As far as the later, luck played a major role in meeting and marrying my Soul Mate...
Check out my sister profile Steel Strung Acoustic for acoustic compostions and such myspace.com/acousticfreefall
Yet another hip guitar site to check out is GuitarZenOneGuitarZenOne.com


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/3/2007
Band Website: soulobjective.org
Band Members: soulObjective myspace.com/officialsoulobjective
soulObjective on iSOUND.COM
soulObjective Musical Perspective
"When the correct combination of variables adheres to each other the end result is purely organic in nature. The phenomenon of sight and sound takes shape as independent elements exposing the act of thought provoking imagery emerge. Contrasting light values reflect in tandem with wave forms... Together they bounce to and from unfixed surfaces rendering a right of passage and a conduit to a perceived evolving continuum..."
Blast From The Past 1986

Influences: Life Experience…

Paul Uses The Following Tools & Gadgets:

GUITARS
Gibson Les Paul Standard...
Jackson/Charvel Soloist87, Soloist2005, and Custom Telecaster...
Ibanez RG Series, SA Series, and Custom Cimar Series...
Inteso Necks and Acoustic/Electric Guitars...

Check out Inteso Guitars aiguitars.com
NOTE
Did I forget to mention that you can never have enough/too many GUITARS... Well, you can't, just ask my wife!

AMPS
Fender Bassman59
Line6 Vetta II Combo...

EFFECTS
Vox Guitar Processing/Modeling, Lexicon, BBE, Alesis, Boss, DigiTech, and Morley...

MISC.
Kahler, TonePros, Graph Tech, EMG, Seymour Duncan, DiMarzio, Fishman, Grover, Sperzel, Monster Cables, Dunlop Picks, Ernie Ball Strings, and Korg...

Kahler Tremolo Systems kahlerusa.com

Sounds Like: Rock/Jazz/Fusion/Prog. Rock

Record Label: Independent

My Blog

soulObjective CD

Just wanted to give everybody an up to the minute status report on progress of the new soulObjective CD:   We are hard at it and making good progress. The fact that we are writing this with 800 ...
Posted by Zen Meets Dogma on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:49:00 PST

soulObjective is back in gear!

Greetings to all&   I figured I would give everybody the latest scoop on soulObjective: For the past 5 weeks things have been on hold due to a personal situation that I was faced with. Needless...
Posted by Zen Meets Dogma on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:10:00 PST

Studio

Back to work in the studio tonight and this weekend& The music continues to evolve!   It has been an interesting challenge writing a concept album for our first release. Playing progressive with...
Posted by Zen Meets Dogma on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:36:00 PST

Studio Clip Release

Studio work continues on& The boys decided to share a small clip from a 12 minute plus song on their new concept album VIVIFICUS. Studio work will continue to be up-dated on the band profile ...
Posted by Zen Meets Dogma on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:41:00 PST

Studio Session

Things are starting to take shape! We have spent the last few days to a week composing and arranging one of the new songs for the album... Good progress and killer vibe! Hmm... Tick, tick, it is only ...
Posted by Zen Meets Dogma on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:10:00 PST

Web Launch

We have decided to launch the official soulObjective web site www.soulobjective.org   As you will see, there are several areas that are still being developed so, stay tuned for updates and as th...
Posted by Zen Meets Dogma on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:16:00 PST

Blog Link & Profile

Subscribe to the new soulObjective blog and add as a friend... www.myspace.com/officialsoulobjective  
Posted by Zen Meets Dogma on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:49:00 PST

Guitar World

I recently read a back issue story (DESERT STORM by: Brad Angel) in GUITAR WORLD (July 2007 issue). The story was about a local Phoenix/Glendale, Arizona band JOB FOR A COWBOY that made the big time b...
Posted by Zen Meets Dogma on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:20:00 PST

Rough Draft Post For - guitarplayerzen.com

Hello and welcome to my first attempt at writing a guitar post for guitarplayerzen.com. To be honest, I don't consider myself a technical player due to the fact that I am self taught and don't know th...
Posted by Zen Meets Dogma on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:34:00 PST

Tremolo Units

Curious  I have always been a Kahler player and can't stand Floyd Rose units at all. Sure, it may be because I started out with Kahler but, I have also owned a couple of guitars with Floyd Rose units...
Posted by Zen Meets Dogma on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:48:00 PST