Hey everyone!---sorry i haven't updated in a few days(like i haven't done that before!-lol!), but i have been messing with my recording equipment and checking out on how to do everything(i wish the picture above WAS my studio!-lol!)....so far, it's not bad! I need to get the proper types of cd-rw's(digital/audio) and they aren't easy to find...i was working on a couple of songs..well 3 actually, one being a new one called "Disappear". I already had the tune down a few weeks before, and i had written a couple of verses on little scraps of paper at work. I finally put it all together but i played it for the first time today, and noticed there are some changes that need to be made with the lyrics. I think my wife would love singing this song once she hears me record it, because it is actually a true song about someone she used to work with and the problems they caused before being "let go"--lol!

         Then i tried to record the guitar part for "Sally Won't Wait Forever". I screwed up the last verse and the final 2 lines of the chorus and i'll have to record it again. I played it back anyways and just sang along to it and i didn't know my wife had come home from work. She stayed outside the door and listened, then came in and said she thought the song was very nice. I think that is the first time she heard it. I also recorded both guitar and singing to my song "Sometimes". I played a little bit of it at guitar lessons last week, and Bud, (my teacher), said he had forgotten about that song and thinks it is a very pretty song....he wants me to come over early tomorrow(my normal lesson day), to get into doing some more recording. That will be lots of fun!

          But it's been just pretty cool to be able to tinker with the recordings at home too because i can experiment with alot of things and then i can make a true decision how i want each song to develope. I can see why it takes major recording artists so long to put a cd together and the hours of practice it takes. I have songs that i've been playing a certain way for years, and now all of a sudden, i see so much more potential to make them even better.....if you love creating art of any form, you can appreciate the pure enjoyment we get from experimenting and coming up with things we never thought we would ever come up with before. And the biggest reward is seeing the smile on someone's face when they tell you how much they love what you've done! After all, that's what it's all about, isn't it? Forget egos, competition(even though that is a way of life in the world of music that we are forced to deal with).....i do it for the passion of music.....if it sells, GREAT!...that tells me alot of people like it....but , if it doesn't(or i just choose not to sell it), it doesn't matter to me....what matters to me is how people react to it and hopefully it'll be all good!!! Well, can't wait to go over to Bud's to continue some more recording and hope i can send out some samples soon!!----Take Care!