Music is a soundtrack to my life. It’s a outlet for my thoughts and way to release. Listening to my old favorites transports me and I’d like to think I can do that for others with my music. I write a lot of escapism music, if you will. Beach music to some, trop rock to others, coastal Americana.... call it what you want but my songs will either make you think or take you on a vacation for a few minutes. Either way, they are usually fun, funny or sometimes love songs. I play orange and yellow, not the blues.
I love producing music, playing music, writing music.... basically my dream is to keep on doing what I have been all my life. I need to pay bills but that happens with honesty in what you do so I don’t worry about it. I just make the music I feel and usually someone else feels it too.
I’d end chocolate M&Ms! Talk about redundancy
The way my brain works is like a file drawer for music. I have so many songs logged in my brain as favorite and memorable that there is no way to state an answer other than to say the 70s were amazing.
I grew up loving Jackson Browne, Kenny Loggins, Paul Williams, Jackie Wilson, and most of the story telling writers/performers. I’m a story teller and I think I got that from the many story tellers of my time. Again, the 70s were amazing for that. The 60s were too but the 60s were a heavy hearted time, I was young and when Viet Nam was over, I was just becoming a teenager. The bands that started coming out in the early 70s reflected the new and relaxed feel that became the music of the 70s. There were a load of amazing bands back then.
Life is inspiration. I look at things and things seem to start to make since after time. All of a is something to say in my head and the songs come out in a matter of minutes. It is not uncommon for me to write an entire song in less than 5 minutes, chords, melody, words, the entire thing. It’s all in my head and all I do is transcribe it out onto paper. Thank Mr O’, my theory teacher for training me how to do that.