Sorry but no one on the Internet will ever know my real name - that is, the name my parents gave me. That's a freedom choice too, isn't it?
I've been on the 'Net since the 1980's and have names within names. That was what it was like then - cyberpunk ala William Gibson. One would never release 'real' information - too risky.
Born in 1952 in the Valley in LA.
Move to tree farm in Oregon in 1964. 15 years old during the Summer of Love. Ripe age for Hippy. I went 50's Beat for a long time but now I'm one of the last Pacific West Coast hippies from Oregon. My Freak Flag is flying high.
Played guitar extensively until I met my sweet wife when I was 31. She was a student at Reed Collage and into the first Macs. Steve Jobs went to Reed. I knew she was the one and too good for me but she was only 20 and easily fell for my bag of tricks. I decided to join her in Graphics and we've made a pretty good living from it. My music friends are all still poor or dead.
Got kidney cancer 2 years ago & lost one. Got bone marrow cancer last year with a fatal twist heart complication. Pretty rare condition and always fatal. In chemo for the next 6 months but nothing can change the shape of things to come. 2-4 years left if I'm lucky then a bad ending.
I'm self educated but try to spread things around. I dig the 1930's, 1950's, 1960's and 1990's.
Music all over the map. Right now Dark Ambient, ECM 'EuroJazz' from 1970's & 1980's. All 1950's jazz. King Tubby 'Downtown' heavy dub stylee with Roots Radics.
Fave guitarists Ralph Towner, Terje Rypdal, Joe Pass, Kenny Burell.
Piano, Paul Bley. Jan Gabarek, John Surman, Jimmy Giuffre horns. Steve Swallow. bass.
Best Dark Ambient - Abul Morgard.
I was here before but unfortunately quit in a huff. I would like to apologize to Elambo for leaving him in the lurch.
I came back to sell my 290 but I would like to continue with Collings as a 12-string player.
When I left, I said that the only reason to be here was if one had a guitar performance video blog and I didn't have one. I'm building up my guitar workstation and hope to have something worth posting here.
My problem then is already starting here, though - no respect for my low-tech vintage gear! If it's not a $10,000 Collings, you guys don't want to know about it.
That 1961 Gibson LPJ has a tone you would pee your pants for. When played through my 1960-61 Supro National Studio 10 (8" Jantzen) amp you'd start crying. It's the tone you're trying to get out of a $500 stomp box but never will. Unfinished mahogany resonates! I got that guitar laid on me because some Bozo wrecked it. Free. I've got a 3-knob tone bender that was assembled by hand by Jim Marshall on his kitchen table - not kidding. Free to me from a friend.
My strat is stuffed with pre-1983 pure copper pennies, hammered in until it could take no more. It sustains for frickin'
ever. I've got one of the first Fender Jags made, Sept. of 1963. I paid $175 for it because some other Bozo wrecked it. That was my main axe for 25 years. Played through a Magnatone M15 amp with 5 speakers. Unworldly sound.
I've been in the same procedural-landscape creating forum for 25 years. I've made some real friends from all over the world. If you want to create a lasting community, you have to show an active interest in what other musicians are doing.
Too many lurkers here! Stop lurking and start playing and post what you play.
One of my landscapes: