Here is the gear I am most proud of, My BC Rich Warlock NJ Series, and My Ovation 6-string Electric/Acoustic, also in the picture is my 8-track digital multitracker, Digitech GSP-21 Pro Effects Processor, Digitech RP-6 Effects Board, (I had an RP-10 that I loved, but apparently somebody else loved it too because it was stolen), a small crate amp, Nady SP-1 Mic and a Sony A7 DAT Recorder, this is some of the stuff I used to write and record all my original music.
I also have an Ovation 12-string Electric/Acoustic, a Nylon strung Classical Acoustic, another Ovation 6-string, Acoustic only (Blue), There are 3 other 6-string electrics here, and a couple of Bass guitars.
I have lost track of a couple of guitars that I loaned out, the same with effects pedals, I used to have dozens of pedals but when I went to rack mount effects and multi-effect boards, my pedals started to disappear, or I would loan them out and forget who had them.
I also have a Carvin Half-Stack which I normally topped with a Crate head, this setup is in storage along with various other guitars, Mic stands, studio amps, and I don't know what else anymore.
And I have a Fiddle too, that I never did figure out how to play.
Oh, I almost forgot, there is a slide-out shelf under the 8-track recorder in the picture that has a Boss DR-5 Dr. Rhythym drum machine/Rythym processor and a Digitech VHM-5 Vocal Processor, I also have a Yamaha PSR-85 Keyboard setup, but that is sitting behind the point from where I took the photo.
That's all I can think of right now, I don't play much anymore except sometimes late at night I will pull out my Ovation and go to guitartab universe and play around a little.
I have had guys bugging me for years to start playing again, but I think I had my fill of all that, it's always cool at first but there are a lot of headaches that turn up later. Friends can become enemies playing together in a band, I've seen it happen many times.
Sometimes I think about Writing and Recording at least one more CD, but I guess my heart really isn't in it anymore, I did it for nearly 20 years and I think the main thing I liked about it was getting laid a lot, because being the frontman for a band certainly attracts some damn fine ladies.
So if you are just getting started I say enjoy! and good luck, stay focused. If I would have been 'discovered' I would still be doing it, unfortunetly I enjoyed the sex and drugs end of things too much to ever try seriously to promote my music.
It's easy to lose sight of your goals when alcohol, drugs and women become more fun than rehearsing, writing, and dealing with other musicians who think their idea of what the band plays is more important than the guy who wrote the music and put the band together specifically to play that music.
Now a few years have gone by and those same guys are telling me how good my music was and begging me to put the band back together, and how they can't play without me...pathetic, Screw them.
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 2:17 pm
)
