Music,guitar,recording,history,reading,politics,NHRA drag racing,baseball,basketball,football,human behavior and spiritual exploration...and obviously the appreciation of the beauty of the human female form.Please refer to my "friends" list for some superb examples of such.I've been a guitarist for about 31 years and currently enjoy a nice collection of quality American made guitars,cool tube and solid-state amplifiers and a vast array of effects pedals and rack stuff.My guitars include a Hamer Studio Archtop,Washburn CT3,Fender Custom Strat,Washburn WI70 Pilsen XL,Hamer P-90 Special,Washburn/Grover Jackson MG-120,Washburn LT-82 Laredo "Tele",Martin DM acoustic,Washburn WMS Studio and a Warwick Streamer Standard bass.Amplifiers include a vintage Mesa/Boogie MKIIC+,Bedrock 1600,Pinnell Studio 12,Masters Amplification TVA30,Crate V-Series V30H,Aslin Dane AG-25R,Bedrock 621,Mega Amps AC60R,Aslin Dane AG-60RC and a Carvin PB100-10 bass combo.Most of my pedals are an assortment of delays,reverbs,wahs and various multi-effects,like my Roland SRV-3030 32 bit reverb rack unit.My pride and joy is a killer,but rare,all-tube Peavey Valverb reverb/tremolo unit with NOS RCA and GE tubes.
Howard Zinn,Bill Clinton,Howard Dumble,Valerie Plame Wilson,Mike Slamer,Veronika Zemanova,William F. Buckley,Howard Stern,Miss Brenda...aka Jerzey Gem,John Stewart,Kim Mitchell,Jimmy Carter,Andy Timmons,Barack Obama and Brad Paisley.I would mention George Lynch,but I've been fortunate enough to have met and talked to him several times in the past.I also would like to meet the stunning Jessie Burciaga.But until that day arrives,I will have to be content to click on the below banner...please feel free to do the same.
I love old school metal,modern blues,classic rock,some of the new hard rock bands and over-the-top guitar playing.Amongst my favorite musicians are Gary Moore,George Lynch,Randy Rhoads,Carl Verheyen,Robben Ford,Michael Burks,Larry Mitchell,Steve Roach,Andy Timmons,Colin James,Freddie King,Enya,Brad Paisley,Larry Carlton,Mike Slamer,Neal Schon,Daryl Johnson and Kim Mitchell.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,Office Space,Chasing Amy,Team America,Grand Canyon,The Green Mile,One Last Thing,Cinema Paridiso,No Country for Old Men,Defending Your Life,Swingers,Predator 2,Dogma,Fried Green Tomatoes,Crash,El Postino,The Bad News Bears,Cousins,The Girl Next Door,Men in Black,Sling Blade,The Sweet Hereafter,We are Marshall,Donnie Darko,Babel,American Psycho,Friends with Money,Risky Business,Romancing the Bone,John Carpenters The Thing and many,many more.
The Daily Show,Veronica Mars,Real Time with Bill Maher,SportsCenter,Californication,PBS Frontline,Baseball Tonight,CSI,House,Countdown,Weeds,The Dog Whisperer,Naked Planet,Nip/Tuck,Bones along with several others.
"A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn,"Odd Thomas" by Dean Koontz,"Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsch,"A Sand County Almanac","Post Capitalist Society" by Peter F. Drucker,"Failed States" by Noam Chomsky,"The Power of Positive Thinking" by Dr. Joseph Murphy and "Why Men are the Way they Are" by Dr. Warren Ferrell.
My father,who taught me right from wrong and the power of having real integrity.