My Top 5 Music Books

I love books. I love music. It only stands to reason that I love books about music. While I tend to read a lot of biographies, in this list I want to tackle books that have had a big hands-on (brains-on?) impact to my making music. I’ve learned a lot from each one and many of them are almost reference material to which I come back frequently. They all get my personal stamp of approval, check them out!

5. The Art of Mixing

4. Behind The Glass

3. The War of Art

2. Modern Method for Guitar, Vol. 1

1.The Music Lesson

Instagram Update

This year I started using Instagram a bit more, and put up short videos about this top 5. Enjoy!

Listening To: Soft Machine

Inspired by youtube clips of Holdsworth playing with Soft Machine, I picked up Bundles a few weeks back and really dig it.

I had a chance to get to Atlantic Sounds this week and picked up their first album on vinyl, and that’s been getting spins, too. What a great band. There are so many bands like this from decades ago that I somehow missed over my last 45 years. Colliseum, Uriah Heep… it’s hard enough to keep up with new bands and new releases but there’s such a gold mine of music from decades past. Regardless, I’m enjoying it and I’m going to be digging deeper into their catalog.

Hello and welcome

Thanks for joining me!  I’ve been making music for almost 30 years now, and I hope you enjoy reading my thoughts on music, and enjoy listening to the music I’m making.

“Atlantis” is my instrumental rock record put together over many years. It was truly a labor of love, and a result of life circumstances forcing me out of the lyric-based, verse/chorus, bluesy/country/rock stuff I had been writing for years.  I wanted to tackle and instrumental album, and I’m very pleased with how it turned out.  I hope you enjoy it.

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