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.
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