Well, well, well!---It's been awhile since i've been here! Alot of it has been because my mother-in-law is moving down to florida and we are cleaning alot of our stuff out of our house so she canfit some of hers in! I didn't realize how much crap i had stored in this house!! Still boxing stuff up and sending it to the storage unit. Almost done though(i think!!)...

    Plus, i've been working on songs with my wife, getting her introduced to alot of my songs i have written...she knows i do this stuff, but doesn't really pay much attention to it, well, until now, that is! It's not that she's not interested because she is...it was her idea to start putting some stuff together and make a little money on the side playing at a few places here and there. We're not ready for that yet, but we are mulling over some tunes, looking through our large library of cd's(1,028!), and going over a few of my songs...one thing i noticed is she is really impressed with the songs i have come up with recently as opposed to those i wrote a long time ago. "(Gotta Keep Me From)Leaving You", was an old song i wrote and she just heard it recently and now wants to sing it...lol! I've been so used to singing it for years , it'll be weird to hear her try to do it...besides i wrote it for a tenor/baritone voice, and her voice is an alto on up to soprano....picture a Gordon Lightfoot voice, or someone in that range...that's how it's supposed to sound, although with Bud Buckley adding a harmonica to it, it sounds more like Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band......so it'll be interesting to hear her add her style to it...Heck, i like the song so much, i don't know if i wanna give it up!--lol!

           I recorded a couple of songs at Bud's friday.....one was the above mentioned song, and the other was "Disappear"....diane heard that one and has almost got that one down pat already...i actually wrote it for her to sing about a former co-worker of hers that was found to be a chronic liar and just plain nutso....so this is our story (and funny to us!) about them...see why she HAD to sing it? I am also trying to finish up a couple of tunes that were half written and i put aside and forgot about...diane heard a part of them and was quite impressed....i guess i never realized the difeerence in what i was writing, but diane has noticed a difference....she says my stuff today is more mature and the music is more versatile...she says i write with pretty much all kinds of styles in mind, whereas, years ago, i wrote most of my stuff like Greenday and real sad songs too...I still love to write slow, sad ballads but i'm getting an itch to write more Greenday stuff--lol!!....I still had the "kid" in me I guess! I'm going over stuff in my cd collection too....Bud is having the debut of his promotional video (for his music) at a party at his house this Sunday, and Diane, me and Bud are going to perform a Styx song (acoustic unplugged--lol) called, "Yes I Can" and who knows, maybe we'll do a couple of others if they want.

            So all in all, we're having alot of fun with the music and hope we can get more going and more recorded...and no, Sally, i haven't forgotten you---lol! Your song is being worked on too! Don't forget to go to the search bar at Myspace.com and type in my name and check out my music site! I will be adding Diane on there soon , and present us as a duo instead of just me.....but for now you are stuck with just me---oh i know...stop moanin' and groanin'....lol