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The guitar story
Becoming the Artist Synchrony.
I am the Guitarist Synchrony, a soloist since 1987. I create music
foundations; a platform for my electric guitar to sing. I spent my
entire life with a dream of making music. After thirty-seven years of
playing guitar, I still have that same dream. This is my gift. The
magic that everyday holds a new song. My fingers just need to find it.
Then I can record it.
I grew up in a family that loved music. My parents were great dancers
during the big band era. My brothers and sister blasted great music
from the fifties & sixties. I was over exposed to great music. So from
the very beginning I wanted to make great music too.
I got my first electric guitar when I was twelve. I quickly
blew up my amp a major let down. Though a turning point in my music
life. I secretly used my brothers’ new stereo tape recorder. It had
eight-inch speakers. It was louder then that little amp. I started
recording on it. Hearing my mistakes, playing along with the track. We
could not afford lessons so this became my music school. I didn’t know
it then, but I would spend my entire life recording, learning and
building track to track. I went onto playing with bands. I never played
cover music without adding a twist, something from myself. This
progressively turned to all original music. Nobody would hire my band
for money. For me, it was never about money, it was about music. Finding
band members to feel the same was a problem. Rampage, my band of nine
years quit on me. It was mutiny at our greatest moment. I decided,
enough with band members. I would learn all the instruments and become
the band. I worked for many years gathering the equipment needed for
this new task. Recorders, consoles, instruments. In 1980 I was given the
money to build a major recording studio. I had one year to make it. As
the clock ticked away, the year passed. They shut me down. I was beaten
to my lowest point, but I awoke and said I will overcome this. I will
get back what was lost and never be owned. I’ll never let my dream be
compromised again over money. After ten years I recovered and was
playing in my own underground studio.
I
released my first CD “In The Spirit” in 1995. My wife organized a team
for a massive Collage radio campaign. The CD was widely received. In
the year 2000 I finished work on CD two Outside the Mainstream. Again
Lorraine went to work on the phones with over eight hundred collage
radio station directors. It was a positive response they wanted more.
The problem was no band, no way to tour. It felt great to hear such
feedback it was a soft applause a reward from the world outside my
studio. I reached a place of success from my music. Only there was
still one big problem. No money for all my work. I couldn’t even pay
the electric it took to make one song.
That was hard to
measure what success meant. It was a time to wonder if it made sense to
go on. Did I go to far to go back? Was it crazy?
I needed
to know what to do. I started writing notes about my life. Those notes
became a Book. The story of my life making music. There was only one
name for it. Outside the Mainstream. I was living outside the
mainstream ever since that first guitar. Now my history was in print,
Published 2001 available on line and my website. I learned about myself.
A personal review, I recalled who helped me get to where I was today.
Also my gift wasn’t only about making music. It was my deep commitment I
made long ago. Never allow my dream to die. When it was finished it was
an inspiration that would remind me of who I was and why I could never
stop. Today I get emails, how that little book inspired them to go on,
how they couldn’t stop reading it. I still haven’t made money but it’s
nice to hear that soft applause.
Success
comes in many ways. My musical expression comes from that struggle. It’s
from deep inside. Something money can’t by and no one can take it away.
For me as an artist I am not satisfied yet. But looking back I did come
along way. My little book helped me to go forward.
I now
own a music laboratory. I formulate the many music layers to become one
sound. When it is powerful, beautiful, rich and moving, I bring in the
Guitar. I am so grateful that little amp blew up some many years ago. I
am now living my early dream of making that great music.
“Vigilant
State”, CD 3 was complete in 2003 it holds many great moments for me.
While putting this CD together my life was up and down. The guitar is
the extension of my spirit. It reflects my most inner feelings.
Without thought my fingers travel to the notes that are needed for each
song. This is my gift an artist for a moment in time. The songs
repeatedly took me to that magic spotlight the mountaintop. Where the
guitar sang out with energy I am here. As I look back Vigilant State
was a good time for my music.
I
love toys, tools and the old way of recording things I went back to Tape
for most of upcoming CD #4 Level Red. I expanded the studio equipment
with an Euphonix console. I love the sound of analog for guitar. Well
that’s how I stay alive. I change thing around me. I do not control what
comes from inside I am always hoping for the best to come. This next CD
is charged with emotional expression. A time of great personal loss and
gains that’s what music is for. It gets us through life, medicine for
the spirit. Level Red will personally mark my time line for musical
accomplishments. As I go forward in my life I wonder if the magic can
remain. Can I hold on to my dream for one more song? I hope it’s not the
end. I will find out today or tomorrow when I pick up that guitar, will
it sing again for me. Synchrony. Being the artist Synchrony 2006
Thank you.
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