I don't want to speak "third person" about me so here it goes:
1966 Born in Windsor, Ontario Canada from an x-treme traditional Albanian family upbringing. Moved to Clearwater, Florida when I was two. Several of my cousins and I Listened to KISS when we were around 5-8 years of age. That ruined me! I wanted to be like the Space Ace Frehley! I wanted a guitar since I was 8, I got into skateboarding really heavy with some older dudes until I won 2nd place in a local contest and my skateboard friends stopped hanging out with me. By then I was 12 and got really tired of getting banged up. It was better because the folks got me a Global acoustic from Sears!!!. I took lessons from a great local jazz guitarist for about two weeks and decided that my ear would take me where I wanted to go.
When I was 14, I had an offer to play bass for a band that was going to play at the first Clearwater Jazz Festival. I got the gig and The band was called The Kurt Machler Jazz Combo. I was ruined again! Music was a major part of my life! Got into a high school band named EMANON (no-name backwards) At 16 I had an accident which rendered my pinky (fretting finger) broken and locked-up the main joint,(by the way, I Love Chris Poland's playing!) I realized then that theory was the "open door" I learned from many of the 70's and 80's style guitarists like....., IOMMI, BLACKMORE, DIMEOLA, CLAPTON, BECK, PAGE,LIFESON, HALEN, HOLDSWORTH, RHODES, LETEKRO, VAI, SATRIANI, MALMSTEEN. At 20 and 4 years into the injury I could pull-off some Ingwie stuff but got tired of the pain associated with a bad fretting finger and quit the band I was in and started playing left handed. Starting over sucks! I had enough money to get my first car, 1981 Z28 CAMARO, I was a motor head! through time I have had a 1987 Mitsubishi Starion, 1988 Rx7 Turbo II, and still have a 1987 Buick Grand National. (all modified of course!) My perspective of cars are just like guitars: power, control, finesse and beauty. Playing lefty for two years I got into a progressive rock band called Legacy in 1988.lt was an original project. We would finish our original set with me playing a "right handed" version of Carry on the Wayward Sun by Kansas. (people freaked!) The band broke up after stupid issues and I lost hope in a cohesive musical outfit. After all that I didn't put as much "steam" into my lefty playing because of having a life....,school, work, girlfriend etc. Still working with other musicians and various musical projects, I had my pinky operated on at 28 and I have 35% more mobility in my finger. (big deal! Now I call it FRANKENPINKY because of scars) I prefer lefty since my minds-eye view of the neck now is lefty. Got married at 32, had two wonderful children (that I could never replace) and unfortunately got divorced. I still have a day job since music never paid my bills. (someday i hope) I Since then I have been playing as much as I can and I LOVE it! I'm playing with several different projects most notably the Big Bang Method. I hope you can check some of that stuff out. I can also be a "hired gun" for specific projects...,
stay real and GODSPEED!
Dude!! you are one of the best guitar players I've ever met and you could'nt be nicer if you tried! You're amazing! Peace, Love and Metal of course! Repectfully, me!
Yes, they are bugging me, especially Chloe', and today we just went and bought a drum set, but yes, we need you to teach them. I'll get back to you soon... Love, Amy
sup brother? Keep on jammin man. Decided to ride the buick into the no return. Nasty turbo, blah, blah, blah, until she turns into my ex girfriend and blows!
Yo Brotha I dig tha tunes you put on your page they fuckin rock screw doin brown eyed girl you need to do your own stuff lets hook up and jam. GETCHA PULL!!! peace .SCHENCKENSTIEN.
