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I don't know how I could live without music. Fortunately, my parents encouraged me to study an instrument from an early age, and I began learning the piano. For 8 or 9 long years I played that thing. I am no virtuoso, but I was good enough to realise that I could use my musical ability in high school and therefore chose music as one of my elective subjects. For the Higher School Certificate, it was a requirement that you were examined on two instruments, so I also began learning the saxophone. These days I play neither of them as I live in an apartment and don't want to irritate the neighbours. I generally get by beating out some acoustic guitar.
Concurrent with all of this, I did a lot of work for an independent public address supplier, first running cables, then mixing front of house, and ultimately running the foldback mix for thousands of live jazz performances. This was great fun.
With this background, my musical tastes are wide-ranging. I love everything from classical to jazz to rock to metal. Of course, growing up in the 70s, it was either disco, or Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin. Disco sucks.
Someone recently asked me what I have in the way of guitars. I currently own four guitars. The reason I have four is that when I went to live in California, the electric I had then (and still have today) was a Fender Walnut Elite Stratocaster that I was unwilling to risk as checked luggage, so it and the thick-bodied Ovation Ultra 1517 stayed behind in Sydney.
Unsurprisingly, I got antsy without access to a guitar while I was in California, and ended up buying another Ovation, this one a Celebrity CC-57 thin-body. Then I fell in love with a Brian Moore i9, and had to get one. When I came back to Sydney to live, I used a professional moving company to ship my belongings from California to Australia, so it was no problem to get the two guitars I'd bought back here. Now my only problem is where to put them all in a one bedroom apartment :)
Being a nice guy, I'm partial to modelling amps, and have a old Boss GL-100 preamp and a Behringer V-AMP2. These keep me and my neighbours happy, and also let me muck around with PC interfaces for recording.
Below is a funky little widget that shows you my recently played tracks via the last.fm service. You need Shockwave Flash for this to work correctly.
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Here is a list of some of the albums I have recorded as MP3s on my computer at the moment.
Note these are not downloadable. And don't send me e-mail asking for a copy either, as I will just ignore you.
| Artist | Albums |
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| $ign of 4 | Dancing with St Peter |
| AC-DC | Back in Black; Ballbreaker; Dirty Deeds; Fly on the wall; Jailbreak; Live from The Atlantic Studios; Misc |
| Aerosmith | Pump; Rocks; Toys In The Attic |
| Al Jarreau | L Is For Lover |
| Alannah Myles | Alannah Myles |
| Albatross | Blues Landing |
| Alice Cooper | Welcome To My Nightmare |
| Allan Holdsworth | I. O. U; None Too Soon; The Sixteen Men of Tain |
| Amir Yussof | Altered Native; Aquarius; Some of this is Real |
| Andromeda | Extension Of The Wish |
| Andy Timmons | That Was Then, This Is Now |
| Angels | Face to Face; Greatest Hits - The Mushroom Years; Howling |
| At The Gates | Suicidal Final Art |
| Audioslave | Audioslave |
| Avenue Blue & Jeff Golub | Naked City |
| Beatles | Abbey Road; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; The White Album |
| Ben Harper | Diamonds on the Inside; Fight For Your Mind |
| Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals | Live from Mars |
| Big Sugar | 500 Pounds; Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready |
| Big Wreck | In Loving Memory Of; The Pleasure And The Greed |
| Billy Joel | Greatest Hits; River of Dreams; The Bridge |
| Black Crows | Shake your money maker; The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion |
| Black Sabbath | Paranoid |
| Blind Melon | Blind Melon; Soup |
| Bon Jovi | Crush; Have a Nice Day; Keep The Faith; New Jersey; Slippery When Wet; These Days; These Days (Live) |
| Boney James & Rick Braun | Shake It Up |
| Bozzio, Levin, Stevens | Black Light Syndrome; Situation Dangerous |
| Brett Garsed | Big Sky |
| Brian Bromberg | Metal; You Know That Feeling |
| Brooklyn Funk Essentials | Cool and Steady and Easy |
| Buddy Guy | Better off with the blues |
| Captain Beyond | Captain Beyond |
| Carl Orr | Seeking Spirit |
| Chad Wackerman | Legs Eleven |
| Charlie Hunter Trio | Bing, Bing, Bing! |
| Chick Corea | Return To Forever |
| Children of Bodom | Follow the reaper; Hate Me [Single]; Live |
| China Crisis | Flaunt the Imperfection; What Price Paradise |
| Chris Hinze | Saliah; ZEN The Fire Within |
| Coco Montoya | Can't Look Back |
| Cold Chisel | Chisel; Twentieth Century |
| Coverdale - Page | Coverdale - Page |
| Craig Chaquico | Acoustic Planet |
| Creed | Weathered |
| Crossfire | Tension Release |
| D.I.G. (Directions in Groove) | Curvystrassse; Dig Deeper; Live at the Basement; Speakeasy |
| Daniel Castro | Live At The Saloon |
| Dave Brubeck Quartet | Time Out |
| Dave Koz | Off the Beaten Path |
| Dave Weckl Band | Hard Wired; Live (and very plugged in); Rhythm of the Soul; Synergy; Transition |
| David Gilmour | About Face; David Gilmour |
| David Sanborn | Backstreet; Closer; Voyeur |
| Deep Purple | Purpendicular |
| Def Leppard | High 'N' Dry; Live |
| Derek Sherinian | Mythology |
| Dire Straits | Alchemy Live; Brothers In Arms |
| Dishwalla | And You Think You Know What Life's About |
| Disturbed | Believe |
| Dixie Dregs | What If |
| Don Griffin | Play It Loud; Standing Alone |
| Dream Theater | Train of Thought |
| Eagles | Hotel California; One Of These Nights |
| Edgar Winter Group | They Only Come Out At Night |
| Electromagnets | Electromagnets |
| Eric Clapton | The Cream Of Eric Clapton; Unplugged |
| Eric Johnson | Bloom |
| Extreme | Extreme; II Pornograffitti; III Sides to Every Story; Waiting For The Punchline |
| Firehouse | Hold Your Fire |
| Fluff | Hybrid |
| Frank Zappa | Hot Rats; Over-nite Sensation; We're Only in it for the Money |
| Galactic | Crazyhorse Mongoose |
| Gambale Hamm Smith | Show Me What You Can Do |
| Garden of Shadows | Oracle Moon |
| Gary Hoey | Money; Wake Up Call |
| Gary Moore | Back to the Blues; Scars; Still Got The Blues |
| Gary Willis | Bent; No Sweat |
| Gerry Rafferty | City To City |
| Green Day | American Idiot |
| Green Vinyl Dream | Babylon; Green Vinyl Dream |
| Greg Howe | Ascend |
| Greg Koch | Radio Free Gristle; The Grip |
| Greyboy Allstars | West Coast Boogaloo |
| Grover Washington Jr | Inside Moves; Winelight |
| Guns 'n' Roses | Appetite for Destruction; Use Your Illusion |
| Herbie Hancock | Head Hunters |
| Hexx | Morbid Reality |
| HIM | Razorblade Romance |
| Huey Lewis | Fore! |
| Hypocrisy | Catch 22 |
| Indigenous | Live at Pachyderm Studio 1998; Things We Do |
| Iron Butterfly | In A Gadda Da Vida |
| Jaco Pastorius | The Birthday Concert (live) |
| Jak Peters | Demos; Lost & Found |
| Jamie Wilson Band | Jamie Wilson Band |
| Jamiroquai | Emergency On Planet Earth; The Return Of The Space Cowboy |
| Jeff Beck | Blow by Blow; Guitar Shop; Jeff; You Had It Coming |
| Jeff Healey Band | Hell To Pay; See The Light |
| Jeff Lorber | West Side Stories |
| Jeff Richman & Friends | Live at The Baked Potato |
| Jet | Get Born |
| Jethro Tull | Aqualung |
| Jim Suhler & MonkeyBeat | Bad JuJu |
| Jimi Hendrix | Are You Experienced; Experience; The Ultimate Experience; Voices |
| Jimmy Barnes | For the working class man |
| Jimmy Page | Outrider |
| Jimmy Page & Robert Plant | Walking into Clarksdale |
| Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers | Empty Arms Motel |
| Joe Bonamassa | A New Day Yesterday; Blues Deluxe; Had To Cry Today; So, That's How It Is |
| Joe Satriani | Crystal Planet; Engines of Creation; Strange Beautiful Music; Surfing With The Alien |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1; The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 |
| John Fogerty | Eye of the Zombie |
| John Lee Hooker | The Best Of Friends |
| John Scofield | Bump |
| Johnny A | Get Inside |
| Johnny Winter | Hey, Where's Your Brother?; Let Me In; Second Winter |
| Jonny Lang | Lie to me |
| Judas Priest | Screaming For Vengeance |
| Ken Snyder | One |
| Kenny Wayne Shepherd | Ledbetter Heights; Live On; Trouble Is |
| Led Zeppelin | Coda; Houses of the Holy; In Though The Out Door; Led Zeppelin I; Led Zeppelin II; Led Zeppelin III; Led Zeppelin IV; Physical Graffiti; Presence; Remasters |
| Lenny Kravitz | Are You Going My Way |
| Les Misérables | Les Misérables |
| Level 42 | On the Level |
| Liquid Tension Experiment | Vol 1; Vol 2 |
| Living Colour | Time's Up |
| Lonnie Mack & Stevie Ray Vaughan | Strike Like Lightning |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Concertos - No. 4 in G - No. 5 in E-Flat; Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6; Symphonies Nos.7 & 8; Symphony No. 9; Symphony Nos. 1 & 2; Symphony Nos. 3 & 4 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | Pronounced; Second Helping |
| Marcus Miller | M2; Silver Rain; The Sun Don't Lie |
| Marilyn Manson | Lest We Forget |
| Mark May | Doll Maker |
| Mark May and the Agitators | Telephone Road Houston TX |
| Mark Selby | Dirt; More Storms Comin' |
| Martin Barre | Stage Left |
| Mattias IA Eklundh | Freak Guitar |
| Metallica | Master of Puppets |
| Meters | The Very Best of The Meters |
| Michael Schenker Group | Michael Schenker Group |
| Miles Davis | Bitches Brew |
| Montrose | Montrose; Paper Money |
| Motley Crue | New Tattoo |
| Mourning Widows | Furnished Souls For Rent; Mourning Widows |
| Mozart | Symphonies 40 & 41 'Jupiter' |
| Nirvana | Nevermind |
| Nuno | Schizophonic |
| Ozzy Osbourne | Diary of a Madman |
| Pat Martino | Live at Yoshi's |
| Pat Metheny | 80-81 |
| Pat Metheny Group | 25 June 1991 - Live - Vienna Austria; American Garage; Speaking Of Now |
| Paul Gilbert | Beehive Live; Flying Dog |
| Paul McCartney | Tug Of War |
| Paul McCartney and Wings | Band On The Run |
| Paul Simon | Graceland |
| Pearl Jam | Ten |
| Peter Frampton | Frampton Comes Alive! |
| Phil Collins | No Jacket Required |
| Pink Floyd | A Momentary Lapse Of Reason; Animals; Dark Side Of The Moon; Echos; Meddle; Piper at the Gates of Dawn; Pulse; The Division Bell; The Wall; Ummagumma; Wish You Were Here |
| Planet X | Moonbabies |
| Poison | Open Up and Say Ahh! |
| Porcupine Tree | Deadwing; In Absentia |
| Queen | Greatest Hits |
| Racer X | Street Lethal; Superheroes; Technical Difficulties |
| Rainbow | Rainbow |
| Raymond Scott | Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | Blood Sugar Sex Magik; By the Way; Californication; Mothers Milk; The Uplift Mofo Party Plan |
| Richie Kotzen | Bi-Polar Blues; Wave of Emotion; What Is |
| Richie Kotzen & Greg Howe | Tilt |
| Robben Ford | Discovering The Blues; Live with Jimmy Witherspoon; Tiger Walk |
| Robben Ford & The Blue Line | Mystic Mile; Robben Ford & the Blue Line |
| Robert Cray | Strong Persuader |
| Robert Johnson | King of the Delta Blues |
| Robert Plant | Manic Nirvana |
| Robin Trower | Bridge of Sighs |
| Roger Waters | Amused to Death; Radio K.A.O.S; The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking |
| Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed; Sticky Fingers |
| Ron Hacker & the Hacksaws | Back Door Man |
| Ronnie Baker Brooks | Golddigger |
| Rose Tattoo | Beats From A Single Drum; Nice Boys Don't Play Rock 'N' Roll |
| Ry Cooder | Into the Purple Valley |
| Sammy Hagar and the Waboritas | Red Voodoo |
| Santana | Abraxas; Santana; Santana 3 |
| Satriani, Johnson, & Vai | G3 - Live in Concert |
| Savatage | Power Of The Night |
| Scott Andrew | Demos 2004; Live; Where I've Been |
| Scott Holt | Angels in Exile; Chipped Front Tooth; Dark Of The Night; Messing With The Kid; Revelator |
| Scott Mckeon | Can't Take No More |
| Sentenced | Frozen; The Cold White Light |
| Simon Phillips | Another Lifetime |
| Slash's Snakepit | Ain't Life Grand |
| Smashing Pumpkins | No Alternative; Siamese Dream |
| Snowy White | White Flames |
| Solefald | Neonism |
| Sonny Landreth | Grant Street |
| Soundgarden | Superunknown |
| Special EFX | Mystique |
| Spyro Gyra | Catching the Sun; In Modern Times; Morning Dance |
| Staind | Break the Cycle |
| Stanley Jordan | The Best of Stanley Jordan |
| Steve Edmunds | Medium Cool |
| Steve Hunter | Local World |
| Steve Morse Band | Coast to Coast; High Tension Wires; Southern Steel; Split Decision; Stand Up; Stressfest; Structural Damage |
| Steve Stevens | Atomic Playboys |
| Steve Vai | Alien Love Secrets; Fire Garden; Flexable; Passion And Warfare; Real Illusions Reflections; Sex & Religion; The Ultra Zone |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan | Couldn't stand the weather; In Step; Texas Flood |
| Sting | Bring On The Night; Nothing Like the Sun |
| Stone Roses | The Very Best of the Stone Roses |
| Stone Temple Pilots | Purple |
| Stoney Curtis Band | Acid Blues Experience |
| Street Legal | Live; Thunderdome |
| Synergy | Suicide by My Side |
| Tesla | The Greate Radio Controversy |
| The Answer | Rise |
| The Cult | Love |
| The Doors | The Best Of The Doors |
| The Sex Pistols | The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle |
| The Tragically Hip | Road Apples; The Tragically Hip Live |
| The Treasure Tree | Spinoff |
| The Vaughan Brothers | Family Style |
| The Who | Live at Leeds; Tommy |
| Thin Lizzy | Dedication |
| Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Greatest Hits |
| Tom Scott | Night Creatures |
| Tommy Emmanuel | Dare to be different; Determination; Midnight Drive; Up from down under |
| Tony Macalpine | Premonition; Violent Machine |
| Tool | Undertow |
| Tower of Power | Power |
| Train | Drops of Jupiter |
| UFO | Force It |
| Van Halen | 1984; 5150; Fair Warning; For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge |
| Various Artists | Stormy Weather; Sydney Jazz |
| Velvet Revolver | Contraband |
| Ventures | New Testament |
| Vines | Highly Evolved |
| Vinnie Colaiuta, Robben Ford, Jimmy Haslip | Jing Chi |
| Vinnie Moore | Out of Nowhere; The Maze |
| Vital Information | Show 'Em Where You Live |
| Voice of Destruction | Steamroller Tactics |
| Wallace Roney | Mistérios; Village |
| Walter Trout and the Free Radicals | Live Trout; Relentless |
| War Of The Worlds | War Of The Worlds |
| Weather Report | Heavy Weather; Night Passage |
| Whitesnake | Slide It In; Slip of the Tongue; Whitesnake |
| Wide Mouth Mason | Live at the Horseshoe; Stew; Where I Started |
| Wolfmother | Wolfmother |
| Yardbirds | Birdland |
| Yellowjackets | Collection |
| Yngwie J. Malmsteen | Rising Force |
| ZZ Top | Tres Hombres |
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