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I started playing piano at age 9 and started playing guitar at age 17. My first electric guitar was a 1958 Fender Jazzmaster, which I still have because I have always loved the twangy sound . I have always liked surf guitar instrumentals by the Venturers, Dick Dale, Duane Eddy, Link Wray, and other groups from that era. Besides being a keyboard player and guitar player, I am also a composer so I will be adding some of my original instrumentals to the showcase. On these tracks, I play all of the instruments with my main instruments being keyboards and guitar.

THE SONGS

SLEEPWALK This song was originally written and recorded by Santos and Johnny and done by Brian Seltzer and Joe Satriani. I have always liked it so I wanted to try recording it using an open G-tuning

WALK DON'T RUN This song was originally written by Johnny Smith and recorded by the Ventures. It was one of those songs that seems like everybody knew a riff or two from it but I wanted to play the entire song.

RUMBLE. This was a classic Link Wray song but I liked the simplicity of the song and the opportunity to use the "Whammy bar".

BITES THE WIENNIEThis is an original song and has no lyrics contrary to the title.

TANGO ON MY MIND I have always liked "Tangos" and was going through a phase of listening to tangos and I was wondering how it would sound to play one with an electric guitar.

EBDA MINOR This song was written using only four minor chords(Em,Bm,Dm,Am) but I have always like the haunting quality that it has.

WIPEOUT This song was originally done by the Surfaris and featured some real heavy drums but I am not a drummer and I really
liked the lead guitar riffs so I recorded it with an emphasis on the guitar.

MFP MFP stands for My Favorite Progression. This is a song that I composed for the piano from a series of chords that just seemed to always come together and go together when I would be improvising on the piano.