Musician, Composer - I am into all types of music genres - mainly: cinematic composition, progressive rock, jazz-fusion, art-rock. As a musician I am primarily a guitarist. I have been playing guitars for over 30 years. I also play keyboards, and have been for roughly 20 years. I am proficient at both guitar and keys. I have worked professionally as a guitarist, keyboardist, and multi-instrumentalist.In order of skill from time spent on these instruments; I also play mandolin, banjo, sax-baglama, drums and hand percussion.
My primary influences are: Everything I've ever seen or heard including: Beatles; King-Crimson; Adrien Belew; Peter Gabriel; Genesis; Yes; Led Zeppelin; Steve Vai; Steve Hackett; Steve Howe (pretty much any good guitarist named Steve, and there's a-lot of 'em); Alan Holdsworth; Pat Metheny; Tony Banks; Dave Gilmour; Queen; Brian May; The Police; Radiohead; Jellyfish; XTC; Frank Zappa; Mike Oldfield; Heart; Rush; Pink-Floyd; Kate Bush; Badfinger; Elton John; Bela Fleck; Al de-Meola; Klaatu; Hans Zimmer, Edward Greig; Sergi Prokofiev; Igor Stravinski; Ozric-Tentacles; Afro-Celt-Sound-System; CSN-Y; Brand X ...just to name a few..
Guitars : '78GibsonES335; '87Ibanez550-RD; '87Ibanez540-RD '79KramerDMZ2000; EpiphonePR7e; Music Man Bass; Samick12string; Fender Mandolin; Turkish Saz Baglama; FenderSquire Strat; Premier Acoustic; Spongbob Ukulelee n more
Keyboards: Korg Triton LE 61; Korg Karma Synth; Korg X2 Synth; . Sequential Circuits Synth (early80s)
Amps & Processing: Vox AC30C2X 30; VHT9202powerHead; FenderM80-4/12; FenderFM21; Dean MarkleyX70; Peavey800power; Digitech2101pre/proc; Vox Tonelab.
Other: Roland GR3Guitar Synth; a handful of various rack FXs & Stompboxes; ETC... Ghanian-Djembe; Remo-Dumbek; Ceramic-Dumbek; PA-gear speaks-16chnl-board mics-etc; Yellow Plastic Spong-Bob Kazoo
Recording: Logic-Pro-X; Protools; M-Audio; Abelton Live 10, MainStage 3, Focusrite 2i2 (3rd-gen) interface.