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I grew up listening to Rock and Roll 45's on a mono record player, ya know, the kind in the little suitcase? My parents were into Elvis, Johnny Cash, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Country music of all sorts and they played that on their big ol' Zenith HiFi Stereo, bigger than some houses. I eventually graduated to my Uncle Bill's hand-me-down Portable Stereo record player. I'm not sure why they called it "portable" as it was pretty big. It was pretty cool though...green tolex and brown speaker grills. The speakers were of course detatchable and I could spread them way apart and get the ultimate seperation on my 45's and eventually my first real LP's that I bought with my own money. My first "album" I got for my birthday was The Isley Brothers. Then I bought the Animals - Animalism. Then the ultimate...The Beatles - Hey Jude! Man, I listened to that record over and over and over. On occasion my parents would have their friends over for dinner and drinks and they would listen to the grown up music on the hifi and sometimes they would let me play my Beatles records on it while they were in the room...wow!

After losing a wrestling match with a trumpet I got my first guitar for my 12th birthday. It was a Harmony guitar with a stella neck, for what it's worth. I finally talked my mom into that cool Yamaha acoustic and went to lessons and watched my psuedo hippy teacher sing Abraham Martin and John, but I survived the great folk scare of the 60's and early 70's and when I was 14 I got a Pan bass (Gibson's Japanese Epiphone I think) and a Sonar bass amp and my buddies Bryan and Tony started our first band. Time went on, several bands came and went throughout the years but eventually I got to the point that I could gather the songs together that I had written and put them on a CD.

"Kompressor" is my first CD release and I really think your gonna love this CD as much as I loved making it!