Early Works ...

The songs on this page represent a few of my earlier works collected together as a CD. I tried to place them on the "album" so that they sound good one after the other. They are not in chronological order

There are three distinct "eras" to these recordings. The oldest were done on my Teac 3340 in the early 80's, and include the River, Hey There, and There Have Been Times. The second "era" was the middle 80's, in which I used mostly 4 track cassette recorders to create songs like See Her Again and FoReal. The other two songs on this page, Free Drum Ditty and Opus3 come from 89-90 when I got my first digital synthesizer, a Kawai K1, and sequencer Cakewalk Version 1.0 running on a 80186 DOS machine. Ahhhhhh those were the days ...

It's funny tho. To this date, in some ways, the River remains one of my best works. I have to give a lot of credit to two gentlemen, one named Josh (who played drums), last name temporarily misplaced, and the other Rick Caughran (who engineered it, played rythmn, and sang a backup vocal). I played the lead and bass guitars and my old Arp Axxe monophonic analog synthesizer on that one, and they really made it sound as good as possible. For what it's worth, I played all the parts on the rest of the songs, except See Her Again which, as I remember, had Keith Swenson on keyboards.

I find some of the other songs interesting just because they're different. I actually played the flute on Hey There and There Have been Times. It might be fun to re-record some of these songs with modern equipment (and about 20 years more experience!).