What possessed me to create this Website?

The Need To Be Heard.

I've always been musical, singing my first "song" into a cassette recorder at age 6 in the dining room of my parents house. From there, I had the chance to temporarily master the drumset my sister Shelly's boyfriend left behind when they split up. I rocked on that rig, till my parents decided a full drum set next to their bedroom was too loud.

Whatever.

Together, with several kids on my street in Denver, CO, I was in my first band at the age of 10. It actually allowed a young kid to start turning his skills into becoming an internationally recognized recording artist, saxophonist Paul Taylor. I could tell he was going to be big even then.

In junior high school, I learned to play guitar, despite my dad buying me arguably the worst electric guitar ever assembled. (1/4" space between the neck and the strings.. Painful to play, lol.)

Then, it was singing competitively in high school concert choir and madrigals.

In college, it was singing in 3 different garage bands. We never got very far. We just did covers of Zeppelin, Gentle Giant, The Who and Lynyrd Skynyrd. No originals.

Whatever.

After college, I got my first synthesizer; a Casio CZ-101. The size of a couple laptops, it had 101 sounds it could make. It blew my mind. 1986 was the year I started composing music, with an Atari 1040-ST computer, a Yamaha synth module and an Ensoniq VFX I bought second-hand from Van Halen's stand-in keyboardist, the late Brett Tuggle. He had some great advice for me:

"Just keep going."

So I did. From 1987 to now, I have composed over 500 songs, without ever taking any formal musical instruction. I joined long-time friend Ben Satory's band "Last One Standing" for a couple years in the late 2000's as a bass player. So you see? I played drums, bass, guitar, piano and sang. But who heard the music?? Just a small handful of people. Till now.

This website contains my the final versions of songs I have worked on since 1987, in various ways. With the amazing power of suno.ai, I can upload my original recordings and have suno finally add the missing piece: professional vocals, and professional-level instrumentation.

97% of everything you hear on this site:

• My Lyrics

• My Melodies

• My Arrangements

What's Not Me?

The AI takes my compositions, and tweaks them a bit, adding better sounding guitars, pianos, basses and drums than I had available through the years.

And the vocals? Much better! Enjoy!

Composing... What's that look like? For example, it might look like the paragraph below, AFTER I supply a song I already composed years or days ago...

Here's an example of a Before/After:

My original song composed of my loops, loops created using my Black Box w guitar.

The final AI-enhanced song.

I told the AI: modern rock; earnest male vocal;no crash cymbals;dry mix;calm vocal delivery; arpeggio electric guitar;no guitar solos

Another example of how complex the prompting can be:

Style: brooding synth-funk meets minimalist alt-pop Instruments: analog synth pads, gated snares, clean electric guitar, syncopated bassline, drum machine Mood: cool, detached, and rhythmically hypnotic Vocal: baritone male, dry and deliberate, minimal harmony Structure: verse-chorus with instrumental bridge, 90s-style stereo mix Avoid I–V–vi–IV or looped pop progressions, Use irregular, tension-based chords with unexpected changes and modal shifts.

Behind The Music

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