I decided at age seven that I wanted to play the electric guitar. A kid who sat in front of me in grade school happened to be the only other kid in the whole school who also played the guitar.

So naturally we formed a band. We got an agent who booked us gigs. We played guitar instrumental music. I even wrote some songs to go along with the surf music, standards, and rock songs that filled out our set list. 

    One day in Junior High I was walking across the baseball field carrying my guitar when a guy came up to me inquiring about my guitar.It turns out that he also owned a guitar. He was a couple of years older and had a car. So we decided he should switch to bass and join our band. We found a drummer, got a PA system for vocals and formed a band called the Shackles. Quite the High School band! We were very popular. This was all happening in a town called Elmhurst Ill near Chicago.

   I eventually went to study music at the University of Illinois at Chicago and continued to write songs and play music.So of course the next step was to get a record deal with Capital Records which I did! And then another record deal with A&M records! That brought me out to California where I wrote and recorded with Alice Cooper and Steve Perry among others.

   I then began creating music and sound effects for tv commercials. This brought me back to writing

instrumental music. Try writing a piece of music that has a beginning, middle and an end that specifically fits a picture and is somewhat original and by the way is only 30 seconds long and do it all in a couple of days. It can be a lot of fun. Creating sound effects I found was especially fun.

  While doing all this I also formed a group called The Hot Club Quartette", music in the Django Reinhardt genre. 

    Which brings me to my latest Album "Big Noise from Nokomis". Guitar Instrumental music. This is where I started out.Take a listen, I hope you like the music.