About Me

    The opinions that I state here are no one's but my own and have absolutely no illusions that I'm going to be able to get along with everyone - but I do like to try.  

Music

    Music is truly my identity and my love - if I won the lottery today, playing music is what I'd be doing. Period. .  I've been a saxophonist for roughly 23 years at this point, and made my living doing it for about 5,142 years (well okay, it was really nine - but it certainly FELT like 5,142 years).  It was my career path before forging ahead with computers.  I still play professionally, but this is not my sole source of income anymore, and over the years, I've developed an extreme dislike for the music industry and the way it treats its artists. 

    If for some bizarre reason you're curious as to what I sound like, I have a couple of live clips of myself that I recorded in late 2001.  One is an excerpt of the song, "September", and the other is from "Play That Funky Music".  Sorry for the bad sound mix.

Sax excerpt from September (almost 600k)       Sax excerpt from Play That Funky Music (about 1 meg)

    I've done some touring in Europe and in Japan and have recorded on some albums that no one would ever know or hear about.  It's certainly opened up a lot of doors that I wouldn't have had otherwise, and am very grateful for what I've been given.