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About Me

Presently, I am the Personal Manager of a very exciting group, The Birthday Massacre. (I am a sheep in wolf's clothing!) They have an incredible amount of talent and a style that blends many different influences. They are unique and it is an honor to represent them! I am impressed by creativity and if you don't know me and I have asked to be added as a friend, it is because I have read or heard something you have done that I believe should be shared with those who are my friends already. I find it very rewarding to hear talent of any age and to give my encouragement to those I think are "gifted" in whatever it is they do.I enjoy helping young people recognize their own gifts that may not be as obvious and help them to a career of some sort. As well, I teach about the music industry at Fanshawe College in London.I have been a recording artist, songwriter, a writer of prose and poetry also. Currently, besides mangaging and teaching, I have written The Canadian Music Industry Primer which will be be available in the fall of 2007. I will be happy to answer your music business, creative or philosophical questions regarding your options. That being said, this forum is sometimes a bit beyond my interests so... I don't respond to blank lists or invitations that are of a personal nature. That is out of my league! Thanks for reading

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Almost every artist I have ever met has had something to add to my life. Places like this are great because you "meet" new talent and rediscover great artists every day.... it's like a 24 hour talent emporium. If I had the chance to sit down with someone..... anyone who is on my friends list and many more. Luckily that happens from time to time.

My Blog

I Want You, I Need You, I Love You

At 2:22 of the song I Want You, I Need You, I Love You," Elvis Presley makes a sound that only a singer who has his whole life into the performance can make. Expelling his breath at the end of the lin...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:23:00 GMT

3. The Effect of Artists on Our Lives: Paul McCartney

As surely as Neil Young could have been singing in the church basement coffee houses of the Canadian Prairies, Paul McCartney could have been a great Compere at Butlins; entertaining the seaside vacat...
Posted by on Fri, 19 May 2006 17:02:00 GMT

2. The Effect Of Artists on Our Lives: Neil Young

Anyone who lives on the Canadian Prairies and has gone to one of the church basement coffee house folk concerts that were once a fixture of prairie life knows exactly who Neil Young is. They have seen...
Posted by on Tue, 16 May 2006 17:04:00 GMT

1. The Effect of Artists on Our Lives: Bob Dylan

Back in the glory days of 45's you could walk into almost any hole in the wall record store and find a treasure. In one of my many forays into such a store I found a 45 by an artist named "Bunker Hill...
Posted by on Sat, 13 May 2006 15:15:00 GMT

Second Guessing the Muse

I was looking over some of the arists that I have solicited for my "friends" section of myspace and I realized that many of them shared the common element of following their muse without second guessi...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:09:00 GMT

Art is long, Time is fleeting

I was reminded of this poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow when my brother sent me a link to an incredible display of juggling by Chris Bliss to a Beatles cut off of Abbey Road. If it weren't for the a...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:22:00 GMT