At the present time I am a solo artist. But the rock-n-roll
power trio is my thing, or thang, as some would say. Give me a great
drummer and a solid bass player and I am in hog-heaven. But situations
do not always allow one to do what one wants to do. So for now, I fly
solo.
Everybody
who knows me says that I swing to the beat of a different drum. Maybe
so, I don't really know. But, I do my best to try to create original
songs that really are original and that have my own personal stamp on
them. Whether I'm playing electric guitar or acoustic guitar, I always
try to do things a little outside of what's generally out there
musically. I also try to inject as much of myself into any cover song
that I do. Listen to my version of Jimi Hendrix's classic, "Voodoo
Child", to get a sense of what I mean.
I am an old-head/new-head guitar player.
When it comes to my musical sound, I am analog to the bone. I can never
plug my Stratocaster into a modern, latency-prone, digital all-in-one
multi-effect pedalboard, and be truly happy. And I run away screaming
from all the pedals and amps with DSP modeling circuitry. I design my
own special effects pedals, and I modify all my store-bought analog
special effect pedals, such as the mighty CryBaby Wah and Fuzzface, to
suit my taste. A long time ago I went to electronic trade school to
learn electronics in order to have a technical career. Over the past
decade I've used the knowledge gained to build the ultimate
multi-effects stompbox for myself. It took hundreds of hours of book
reading, circuit prototyping, testing and troubleshooting, and serious
listening drills; but the payoff is that I got extremely good at being
the primary architect of my musical sound. I would recommend this route
to all musicians, because you get a much deeper understanding of how
sounds are shaped and transmitted electronically.