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About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Musician
Location	Isle, Minnesota, United States
Introduction	Musician, Nature Enthusiast, Pundit, and Liberal Political Junkie. Native of South Dakota. Studied music under Dr. Darwin Walker and many other fine teachers at SDSU in the '70's. Toured the world for 6 years in the Army Band system, living and performing in Missouri, Virgina, Germany, Kansas, Chicago, and Seoul. Lived, worked, and performed in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin for 20 years. Moved to Iowa in 2006, and then East Central Minnesota in 2015. I gladly and professionally perform all styles of music on low brass and bass guitar; and yes, I am currently for hire. If you want the best and you can afford me, I'm your guy.
Interests	Intelligent music, Nature, Schwinn and Trek bicycles, Politics, and Political Humor.
Favorite Movies	A sampling: A Beautiful Mind, Anything by Tim Burton, The Natural, Cool Hand Luke, Moby Dick, The Last Temptation Of Christ, and Darby O'Gill And The Little People. Also rock music documentaries and concert DVD's.
Favorite Music	Prog Rock:, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Frank Zappa, ELP, Gentle Giant, Family, FM, Kevin Gilbert, Nektar, Todd Rundgren, Rush, Renaissance, Peter Gabriel, Gryphon, After Crying, Dixie Dregs, Bruford, Mike Oldfield, Lake, King Crimson, Robert Fripp, Supertramp, Steve Hackett, Alan Parsons, Yes, Moody Blues, Ambrosia, Kansas, Atomic Rooster, Hawkwind, Triumvirat, Magenta, UK, Steeleye Span, Captain Beyond, Happy The Man, National Health, etc., Classic Rock:, The Who, Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, John Cale, Velvet Underground, The Tubes, Alice Cooper, Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits, Steve Earle, John Mellencamp, Joni Mitchell, Queen, Jefferson Airplane, Rainmakers, Steely Dan, etc., Classical:, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Ravel, Ives, Tchaikovsky (Ballets), Stravinsky, Respighi, Shostakovich, Copland, Hovhaness, Sparke, Whitacre, etc., Punk/New Wave:, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, The The, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, Devo, Police, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, XTC, Pretenders, Thomas Dolby, Midnight Oil, Buggles, Missing Persons, New Musik, Replacements, Minutemen, Violent Femmes, etc., Electronic:, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Synergy, Tomita, Vangelis, White Noise, Klaus Schulze, Joseph Byrd, etc., Acoustic:, Leo Kottke, Roy Harper, Nick Drake, Christopher Parkening, Steve Hackett, Lots of other assorted stuff, too!
Favorite Books	Ball Four (Jim Bouton), Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse), The Power Of Myth (Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers), Nickled and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich), Boom (Tom Brokaw), In The Absence Of The Sacred (Jerry Mander), or anything by Stephen King, Carlos Castaneda, Jack Kerouac, Derrick Jensen, Thom Hartmann, and Howard Zinn. I also enjoy musical autobiographies: Frank Zappa, Marianne Faithfull, Ray Manzarek, David Crosby, and Keith Richards (and many others) wrote great books about themselves.