Here’s the link for those of you who are impatient:
But here’s the story for those of you who are interested:
When I was ten years old I bought a snare drum with my own money earned from being a paperboy for The Detroit News.
For your information, millennials and younger, a “paperboy” is -- or perhaps was -- a job where you rode a bike around your neighborhood and delivered actual physical newspapers door-to-door. My bike was likely a Huffy, although I don’t recall the snare drum brand; soon after, however, that drum would be upgraded to a 5-piece drum set from Rogers.
Around 18-years-old between shifts at my next job as a retail clerk at TJ Maxx, I remember staying up for 72 hours straight playing with my new Korg M1 synthesizer and music workstation. Even though I didn’t stick to the genre, somewhere there’s a cassette tape or a few with my early Tangerine Dream-inspired electronic music.
Now, 30 years later, 38 years later if you go all the way back to the snare drum, after dipping my toe in, diving in, swimming around, jumping out, drying off, wandering around, and jumping back in the entertainment industry so many times it would make anyone's head spin (off)...
...I’ve finally released my first single as a songwriter and producer. As Abe Lincoln is known to have said, “I may walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.”
So now you have the link and the story.