The first half is me on guitar, the 2nd half is my friend Ken Harrill. He's an incredible guitarist. Click on the Pictures link to listen and view pictures from different gigs.

The 2nd night of the Na Leo Christmas concert was great!!!!!! Willy K. was awesome and Keali'i was amazing!

I got to play ukulele with Keali'i and Na Leo. VERY FUN!

Everyone did a great job!

What a great night with lots of guest artists! There were challenges onstage, but tonight will be another night! Very exciting!

Go Warriors! Read More...

Playing guitar and ukulele on a few loopable tracks.

I am playing ukulele on this one along with some virtual instruments in Logic Audio. Ben Vegas sings the tag line.

I just finished a "revamp" of Kahala Mall's music. I was lucky to get Ben Vegas to help me on this one. He plays lead guitar on it and I am playing rhythm guitar/ukulele and other instruments.

Ben and Maila on youtube.com at Gordon Biersch in Honolulu. Read More...

Just finished the theme music for Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox! Read More...

The newest version of Mac OS X called Leopard is faster than Tiger on my Dual G5. I'm used to operating systems getting slower and bigger but this version is faster at browsing (Camino is much faster) and the Finder and Mail work much, much better.

I don't like the way the dock looks, but there's a tweak in the terminal that fixes that.

My good friend, Jim Anderson has released a cool new album of progressive rock.
Give it a listen!

I used to program a lot of Roland Keyboards in the 90's. I lost touch with the Roland line until I played the Juno-G recently. Here is a very low cost keyboard with lots of functionality built in. The best part is that it's only 14 pounds so you can hold it in one hand. I was very, very surprised to see that the sound engine; despite being a "Fantom-type engine" is very much like the XP-80 or JV series keyboards. Not much has changed in a decade. I also found the the sounds to be very reminiscent of past Roland keyboards.

After having gotten used to wheels, the Roland lever is almost like a throwback and things like modulation for organ sounds are impossible to do with the lever since you have to hold the lever in place to get the leslie going. The D-beam takes the place, but it's not as simple as ....a simple wheel.

The sounds on the Juno-G are great. The synthesizer sounds are very good. I am finding a bunch of great lead sounds in the machine. The acoustic sounds are ok, rather bad compared to my S90ES, but this thing is over a $1000 less. The MIDI is very flexible and the onboard drums/sequencer is fun!

Anyway, it's a great keyboard and I will have fun playing it on the gigs! I will be using an Emu Xboard with it as a psuedo 2nd keyboard.

Update: buy an SRX-11 for $200 more and adjust the EQ and you will have a decent piano sound. Most of the Roland sounds are way too bright IMO, but tweaks to the patches will fix this.

Hehehe Ken is playing guitar in a music video along with Tony Lindsay (Spang a lang, Santana). Check it out!

Tim Enos was an interesting man. He was an actor and also played the bass. He hired a lot of musicians and we would often play on the streets for tips. I remember him as a vibrant, fun person. We didn't always have the glamorous gigs, but I remember some of them very well. Rest in peace Tim.

I see my friend Bill Hazzard is still smoking on vibes! He was a great influence on many of us - often inviting us to his house to jam and record. He had a grand piano, vibes and drums all set up. All you had to do is play and have a good time.

Check out his CD!

Link to my thesis from long ago....

I did the music and editing for 3 Education PSAs that are online.

Check them out!

Very cool page which shows detailed information on symphonic instruments.

There are some very catchy tunes on this CD! Check out this UK based band!

http://www.thedecoders.com/