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My Dad bought me my first guitar for my 12th Birthday and I was immediately obsessed. The Beatles had just landed and I couldn't put it down. I wrote my first song at 19 and since then I've pretty much had one going at all times . . . It was the process of expressing a thought or emotion or capturing a moment in a little musical interlude that I pursued. I've been doing demos since the early 70's. I cut a local record in '76 in Maine. I made a living doing a solo lounge/bar act thru the 70's in New England and eastern Canada until my early 30's at which point I got a 'real' job and played in a few original bands in the Boston scene . . . always recording, I was involved in several demos throughout the 70's and 80's . . . . . I came to California in '90 to pursue a songwriting career and became a Christian, at which point I pursued the Lord and started writing and playing worship as well as writing Contemporary Christian material. At this point, the writing turned into the process of revealing God's plan or expressing our/my struggles, making a point or presenting a thought that encourages us or draws us closer to God. I've had the joy of leading worship at 3 different churches in Southern California and have had the pleasure of leading worship at a couple years worth of Youth Camps. I've put my efforts for the past 2 years into an Acoustic Contemporary Christian CD called 'Kingdom of Conscience.'