I'm a guitarist / songwriter from Melbourne, Australia. I've been married to my long-suffering wonderful wife since 1983 and we have three amazing daughters - all pretty musical and totally unique. I taught myself to play guitar in the early 70's on my dad's 1936 square-neck Dobro (if you can play that you can play anything!!!). My dad could play piano, accordion, mouth organ, spoons and a bit of guitar. He had a pretty good 'ear' but wasn't any good with theory. I switched to a Japanese Aria 'Fender Jaguar' copy and a vintage 1965 aussie Goldentone 1753 tube amp. It had a pretty cool sound and I could distort the amp easily by just turning it up. I've had quite a few guitars over the years and taught music at night to pay for them. Currently, love playing my flame top Les Paul. After completing an audio-engineering diploma, I co-designed, built and managed a recording studio in the 80's. We had a couple of fun years and even managed to write a musical that actually got staged - must get it revived one day :) Foolishly trying to complete my collection of Dr Buzzard and Kid Creole records, I created: 'B'Dilli Bay - The Chameleons Kid Creole and The Coconuts' web site (http://sites.google.com/site/tonythechameleon/). This hopefully lists the many hundreds of records, videos and articles relating to the Browder brothers. Even though I've got a B.A. in History and a Dip Ed in Education, I now work for a very large global IT company (go figure). I now play a 1974 Fender Strat, 1980 Maton CW80 Acoustic, the same old 1936 Dobro, 1979 Ibanez Roadster bass, Epiphone Casino and Les Paul Standard; and bash keyboards and my daughter's Pearl drums when I can't find a good drum sample. I'm now trying to make time to write more songs and get up the nerve to record my voice (be afraid!).