I started playing guitar when I was 16. I currently play guitar mainly as a hobby, but maybe someday I'll get the opportunity and time to play professionally.

I have a small recording studio setup in my backyard in a tiny building that I converted from a tool shed. The pics below show what the outside and inside look like. This jamhut allows me to record some of my sessions in privacy.

I would say George Lynch (Dokken, Lynch Mob) is probably the reason I picked up a guitar. I love Vinnie Moore (guitar virtuoso), Jake E. Lee (Ozzy, Badlands) and Warren DeMartini (Ratt). I still get chills when I hear some of Stevie Ray Vaughan's recordings too. Vaughan would flow like river when he performed! I also like Lenny Kravitz and many, many rockers from the 70s. The Eagles, Boston, Ted Nugent, Kansas, Bad Company, Styx etc. Led Zeppelin are a huge fave for me!

I liked the beginnings of alternative, namely Mother Love Bone (these Seattle rockers started the movement in my opinion), Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Sound Garden and a few more but, I didn't like what alternative became by the time it was mainstream. It was kind of hard to call it "alternative" when it was mainstream anyway. The two words "mainstream" and "alternative" are kind of contradictory.

I greatly appreciate all that the aforementioned have given to the art of music.............

I'm also a huge fan of electronic gadgetry.... I am bigtime into computers and computer upgrading. I have police scanners, digital cameras, camcorders etc. I was way into collecting CDs for awhile until my collection got to about 1200 and now I'm a little sick of it, plus today's music kinda sucks anyway so there aren't many new CDs that interest me enough to purchase.

Sixties Camaros are another major interest for me. I spend alot of time (and money) on my 1967 Camaro SS and I plan to get a 69 Camaro soon. You can't ever have to many muscle cars.

My latest and greatest is a Dolby Digital home theater system. Consisting of a Sony Home Theater, 5 channel Dolby Digital Receiver (with fiber optic inputs and cables), a Sony 200 Disc Mega CD changer and a (this one is my fave) Sony 300 Disc DVD Changer (with fiber optic outputs). For speaks I use a Bose Acousticmass system which includes a front left satellite speaker, a center channel satellite speaker (although I use a Klipsch center speaker in place of the center Bose satellite speaker), a front right satellite speaker, two rear satellite speakers and an acoustic bass module. Since the passive Bose acoustic bass modules are kinda weak in my opinion I have a powered Klipsch subwoofer to handle all the deep bass. That makes the movies really thunderous!!

Having the 300 Disc DVD Changer has converted me into an avid DVD Movie collector and I'm already up to about 350 DVDs. What a money hole this has become! Oh well, I'm a movie freak!

Dont believe that I am a video game fanatic? Check out my bedside table in the pic below (shown is a PS2, GameCube and Xbox - the current machines)