Reflections and Gratitude for Music and Musical Friends

Here, after 65 years of life experience, I’ve managed to live some of my wildest childhood dreams... 

I grew up in a small college town in Northern California with music on my mind.  Playing rock-&-roll in some of the popular local bands, and having felt even then, that I was living the life...  

With great friends, and musicians to play our favorite songs together, we often played every day, performing for crowds two or three times a week from my early teens through my early 20’s.  I often say I can count on two hands those weekend nights we were not playing a gig during that decade.

Now after a different kind of lifetime, immersed in small business ventures and back home in the Northern California Sierra foothills, I’ve kept on pursuing my love of music.  Playing my guitar when I’ve found some likeminded musical friends along the way.

Today, after several years producing our new TV series, Plugged In and Turned On in Paradise, I’m grateful to be surrounded with so many uber-talented friends whom I’ve been able to play music with.

Some of them were my idols as a young player. I’ve been onstage with Sir Paul McCartney’s friend and lead guitar player Laurence Juber.  I’ve played with members of the Doobie Brothers, Santana, Tower of Power, Cold Blood, Iron Butterfly, The Animals, Journey, Miles Davis, and Motown session players, some of the best musicians on the planet...  

I really must be dreaming...!