11/18/09

Welcome to my Web site!

I started playing piano when I was about 3-4. I took lessons from age 9 until the end of college. I then played professionally in clubs for about 5 years. When disco came in, I took a hiatus for about 13 years, seldom playing at all. Then someone called me from a local restaurant wanting me to fill in at their piano bar for a few weeks. I ended up playing there on Friday and Saturday nights for 10 years. Then I left for about 5 1/2 years, until the new owners called me and said their waitresses and other staff wanted them to get me back. So I went back about 2 1/2 years ago.

I started recording midis about 1995 when I got hold of a Yamaha Clavinova. At first I just recorded songs straight, but gradually I learned how to use drum tracks, more instrument tracks, etc. Some of the songs here I worked on for over a week, such as Roseanna and Beginnings.

When I first uploaded a few songs to a couple of local BBS's, I never thought they would go very far. But a year or so later, after the Internet started to take off, on a lark I did a search for myself and found my files on a couple dozen sites. Soon I started getting emails from people wanting to know if I had my own website. So, a couple of years later, I finally put one up. It was up for several years and got thousands of hits until last year when my ISP dropped off the face of the earth with no notice. At the same time my hard drive crashed, and I lost a lot.

I am married, with one son, Joey, who is 12. I live in Cincinnati, Ohio.

I finally realized that lots of sites still had my files listed, but nobody could listen to them because they all pointed back to my old site. So I decided to put up a new site the other day.

I hope you enjoy the music. If you have any problems with any files, please let me know. Also, please sign my guestbook.

BTW, I am currently playing on Monday and Saturday nights at 6:00 at Sorrento's Italian Restaurant, on Reading Road in Reading, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati). If you are in town, I'd love to see you!

Sincerely,