Grew up in Astoria, Queens. At 16 my folks agreed to help purchase a used Gretch Anniversary model for $50 that I still have. I played it for years. Once upon a time, I got to play a friends Martin and was swept by the sound of it and now have a Martin GPC18E and a lovely blue Les Paul, which are just wonderful to play.
Mostly now I play a Roland Phantom G6 which is a fun synthesizer keyboard. As a teen I carried a small radio in my shirt pocket, trying to get as close as possible to the sound. I love most of the classical rock, the Beatles, much of the newer music in Spotify’s Chill Pop, some Rock and am blown away by live orchestral music, particularly Tchaikovsky and some Bach.
I have a penchant for mentioning that I opened the gate into the parking lot on the day the Beatles played Shea stadium, then went in and saw them while the fans screamed and went wild. Quite a day, it was.
I am self-taught in just about everything and I’m trying to get this music heard wide and far.
I wrote, sang and played Bass in a couple early bands and we had fun playing our own songs, wherever allowed. I truly look forward to playing the songs from this album, live, at our earliest opportunity and hoped you would attend.
While, there is a love song or two in the album, several of the songs try to explain feelings that are profound to me, and hopefully, also to you.