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My plan is to release a song a month over the course of twenty months with various producers and musicians, fitting the pieces to my puzzle as I go.

These ideas are based on (though I'll most likely do some wandering off) versions on my own experiences of playing music over the years with a nod of recognition to the countless musicians and songwriters out there in the trenches some of whom I've been fortunate enough to have traveled along side with. Songs about the kid who at first gravitates innocently toward music in its raw and spiritual form into the desire of some rockstar life few can ever attain.

The joke of emulating worn out cliches associated with drugs, sex, and rock and roll even without the fame or money or ..sex.

Depression, frustration, crushed hopes and dreams of clawing up ladders to nowhere. The egos, arrogance, selfishness, the backstabbing, the obsession with trying to be recognized. The realization that your corporate, blue collar job or cover band may end up being your true source of income after all.

Yet over time no matter what level you achieve "making it" may wind up being something else you never expected.

Maybe it's the perseverance and perfection of your craft that is the real goal which may trump all of vanity's distractions. Maybe it's the on going search of the full potential of your own creativity, you coming into your own, on your own terms, with or without the trappings of popularity and the constant search for approval that matters the most.

The vibrations of music may not only be bigger than the struggle, but it may very well be the foundation of existence itself.

The kid comes in a full circle after the long wild tangent back to the original reasons for the gravitation toward the vibrations of sound. That raw source, that reason from the beginning that was forgotten.

The musician, the artist, finally sees not only his or herself as a member of those vibrations, but perhaps everyone here on our blue little planet, knowingly or not, are members of sound, and here we are together riding on a song through space and time life, death.

Many of the songs are still being written as I go. The rough sketches are basically done . The first session has been completed with my current full band WELCOME MATT line-up Andrew Lion, Rick Munez, Michael Papenburg, Pat Kelly and Joe Heavey. Five songs were recorded at Broken Radio with Matt Boudreau . The second session has also been recorded with Jeff Symonds on keyboards and Bass and Joey Castor on percussion at Prairie Sun studios with Wain Hewlett . Owls flew overhead at the end of the session as we were leaving on the longest day of the year. I'll choose to take it as a good omen though I'm sure it was just owl mating season.