Well . . if you really want to know, music is my life. I play guitar (JJ Guitars to be precise (no relation, just fine, handcrafted instruments from the UK-check 'em out at: www.jjguitars.com), keyboards, woodwinds, and various other things, but I'm mostly a songwriter. My songwriting influences include (in no particular order) The Beatles, Becker and Fagen, Don Henley, Frank Loesser, the Gershwins, Duke, Dylan, Arlo, Woody, Fats (both of ‘em), Hoagy, Mozart, Nesmith, Nilsson, Newman, Smokey, Stevie, and the late great Mr. Zevon to name a few. I have a band. It's called ARIEL and you can look us up here on MySpace at: http://www.myspace.com/arielrockstheworld. We have a new CD out called "Sure Thing, You Bet!" and you can buy it at Amazon.com
I write everything with my good friend George Petersen who is also the drummer in ARIEL. We have also written a children's song book together called Crazy Campsongs. Please go to Amazon and buy many copies for your friends, family and total strangers. We could really use the bucks. To support my music habit, I hold down a variety of day jobs that come and go. I do it all. I've had to from doing the band thang all my life. I'm a pretty killer graphic artist that knows the print industry pretty well and I've been told I have the marketing and PR chops of an agency veteran. Contracts, legal, admin, IT-you name it. I also record, produce and engineer other artists and do what we call in the biz "industrials" for an array of corporate clients, and I play with other local bands including the popular party band "Michael Sea and Island Fever." Here's the laundry list part; I collect old records (78s, 45's and 33's) and archive the rare ones to digital for posterity. I also collect sheet music. I have lots of records and sheet music. I also restore musicals from the 1920's. I'm a big fan of Ziegfeld musicals and stars, Eddie Cantor in particular. I'm also into late twenties and early thirties bands and performers. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
