My Original Music




The Retros, The Tickets, and going Solo.

Rock star, pop star - whatever you want to call it, I wanted to be one. Ever since I first saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan that fateful Sunday night when crime rates plummeted, the seed was planted. I got my first guitar for my thirteenth birthday and I practiced until my fingers bled. I got into several groups as an adolescent but it wasn't until 1980 when I played with The Retros that I actually tasted some success. This band was and still is awesome in the sense that we wrote and recorded a baffling thirty-three all-original songs in the short span of nine months! And the music still sounds good today, in this reporter's opinion. (See links if you'd like to hear those songs.) Then in 1981, I moved to NYC and started a band called The Tickets . We wrote and recorded around 30 songs in three years and played a lot of showcase clubs in Manhattan before we finally disbanded. This music was also quite good and can be heard via the links.
I've basically given up making music except for occasionally playing acoustic guitar and living vicariously through these old recordings by my old bands and my recently released Solo stuff. I have no regrets and am proud of this huge chunk of my life. I wouldn't have made a very good pop/rock star anyway!

Posted: Wed - October 1, 2003 at 09:53 PM          

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