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I’m implementing my new motto: “Either show it or throw it, but stop carrying it around and storing it for decades.”

So here is something that I’m pulling out of storage, refurbishing and showing. It’s an unusual electronic musical instrument known as a Vibravox, built fifty years ago back in 1972 by my dad and myself from an article in an electronics magazine. The silver knobs on the left are touch sensors to use your hand to select various pitch …

I woke up Sunday morning thinking about the album that got me into electronic and ambient music. It was Tangerine Dream’s 1975 release “Rubycon”. I decided to play it  while lying in bed and found that it still impresses me with the sounds and moods that the band created with what we now consider primitive gear.

Rubycon consists of only two long tracks each taking up an entire side of the album, at a little over 17mins each. After breakfast I …

This was a major influence in my life.

I own every King Crimson album and video, and have seen more of their shows than any other band. I’ve also attended Robert Fripp’s solo performances & speaking engagements, one of which I hosted myself during my time of owning & operating a recording studio here in Nashville. I was also fortunate enough to do studio work on Robert’s solo album “Love Cannot Bear”, providing audio editing. I never could have imagined …