Thanks for visiting my page here at Wholenote.
For those interested, I play various styles. I would consider myself a chameleon playing styles from Bach to Rock, from Country to Rockabilly and Blues to Jazz.
As for my philosophy, I believe that a good guitar and/or amp will give you the greatest pleasure in learning, studying and playing the music you enjoy. Your ability to study, learn and play different forms bring the true inner self out in understanding music. This freedom of expression is limitless.
Music is the greatest creation of mankind. With it you can express feelings that spoken words can never say. So open your mind to all forms of music. Whether it's good to you or not, you can learn from it.
I am currently playing pickup gigs and working with my tribute called "Arrival". Arrival is a Journey tribute band containing seasoned musicians. I will provide links and additional data on the band as it develops, so stay tuned for the updates.
I used to play with "Bad Animals" - Recreating the Essence of Heart! It was fun while I played (2005-2008) but my musical growth became stagnent and it was time to leave. You can still hear my guitar work with "Bad Animals" performing the "Heart" song "Barracuda".
Over the past five years I have been playing in tribute bands. Prior to that, various original and cover bands.
From 2003 through 2005 I played in a Rush tribute band called "Exit Stage Right - A musical tribute to Rush". For those three years we played various venues around Southern California duplicating Rush's music and sound as close as we could. For what it is worth here is a short sample of Exit Stage Right playing Rush's "Freewill".
During my ESR days my rig consisted of a 12 space rack. In the rack was a Furman Power Distributor; Samson Wireless; Korg KT-2; Two Boss SE-50's; Rockman Octopus; Rockman EQ; Marshall 9001 Tri Stage Tube Preamp; Peavey Fifty/Fifty Tube Power Amp. The rack fed two Mesa Boogie Thiele Back Cabinets loaded with 12" Celestion 75 Watt Sidewinders.
The rig was controlled by an ART X-11 midi controller. For floor pedals, I ran a Crybaby Wah, Ernie Ball Volume Pedal and combinations of two of the following (depending on my mood) a Modified TS-9 Ibanez Tube Screamer, a Ibanez TS-10 Tube Screamer, OD-1 Boss Overdrive, or a Boss Heavy Metal Pedal (great for the Different Stages Era!)
As for guitars, a Fender Strat, G&L ASAT Classic, Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion.
For those who really care (Rush Caveats), I did play midi bass pedals like Alex did. My controller was and still is the Roland Midi PK5 Floor Pedals. I use the Roland to control two Oberheim Matrix 1000's - Whew!!!
In 1993, I had the pleasure of meeting the late great Danny Gatton!!! What a great loss to the guitar world. He was such a fantastic player.
During 1993, I played in a band called Tara which was named after the lead singer. We on the strip at the infamous "Roxy" and "The Whiskey" but nothing ever came from it. Here is a sample of our original music from that time."Taken By Innocence".
In 1990 I had the pleasure of meeting one of my guitar hero's Robben Ford - What a treat!!!
For you "Heavy Metal" maniacs, I am old school! In 1983 I played in a band called Malisha. The original band folded a few months after we relocated to LA from Hawaii but our lead singer Kim LaChance (of Vixen fame w/Marty Friedman [Megadeth]) took the 5 tracks that we recorded (in Hawaii) and combined it with some other material she recorded and released in 1986 - Malisha - "Serve Your Savage Beast" on Shardan Kane Records.
