Music has always been part of my life, but I didn't start making my own music until I was nearly 30 years old.

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When I was a little kid, I asked my parents for guitar lessons.  They told me I should probably get a little bigger before trying to learn guitar, and instead they got me drum lessons.

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I wish I had the wherewithal at age 8 to tell my parents how much I wished to learn guitar, because my desire for it never left me all through growing up.

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When I was 29 I camped out alone and soaking wet in an old growth redwood forest for a week.  I spent the whole time meditating on what I had done so far and on what I wanted next from my life.  And aside from having a family, the only big thing I felt was really missing from my life was an avenue to creating my own music. 

 

After that, I decided to focus my creative time and energy on making music for several years.  In fact I hardly drew or painted at all.

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Within a couple years of playing, I had written enough songs to put together a basic album of songs. It was a technical headache, because I recorded the whole thing on a laptop, using a 4 track as the input module, which gave my digitally recorded work an analog hiss and other low tech problems.  But it satisfied my desire to put together a full album of music.

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Also, I have been lucky to be part of a group called SambaDrop. Check out this link to some of our lives shows. We play all kinds of festivals and events, from San Francisco's famous Sea of Dreams New Year's party to Waavy Graavy's 80th birthday party. 

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No other form of art has been as immediately fulfilling to me as singing and playing guitar. And none passes so quickly. Music requires the 4th dimension, and is immediately gone the moment it happens.