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MY MUSIC

I started young playing piano and then trumpet.  I didn't stick to it, but it left me with a feel for music. I picked up the harmonica in my late thirties when I was in Library School.  I later went to work in Vietnam with WUSC and I started jamming with a local blues band in Saigon on the weekends.

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When I came back to Canada I started playing with a midi program and I started composing my own music like Rock'n'Diddly.

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In 2005 I moved to Finland and I ran into a magnificent musician by the name of David Andrews.  This is one of his songs.  I Go Down. When you play with really great musicians they have the ability to bring out the music in the people around them and he helped bring the music out of me.  We started recording stuff like Jethro Tull's Someday the Sun Wont Shine for You.

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Soon after I met a blues guitarist from Chicago and with Heiki Turihalme, a musician from a local band, The Drama Queens, and a fellow on acoustic guitar we formed a band called The Blue Monsters and we started making music like this.  The Peter Gunn Theme.  We were an overnight success and it was a short but glorious run.

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The Blue Monsters went the way of most bands.  Somebody stole somebody else's guitar and ran away to Helsinki.  Heiki, a great guitarist and bassist who's heavy metal boots I am not worthy to kiss, was busy with his own band making young women swoon with his incredible shredding and singing, which I heartily admire.  Eric and I stayed together for years, making our own music like The Tower (Bourgeois) and You'll Miss Me (Schwandt).  Eric is an awesome guitarist.  I am honored to have worked with him.  Now I am back in Nova Scotia and Eric has his own band The Downstream.

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Now, my days of glory as a front man past, I jam on the harmonica with a small group that gets together sometimes and I practice guitar privately at home. 

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