Music 🎵

…is that which reaches the soul and engulfs the spirit as a beautiful sound.

Music is something our heart teaches

everybody’s a critic

There’s currently not a whole lot of music on this webpage unless you’re like me and hear it all the time. A bipolar brain is a busy place. There’s music in the air and in between my ears. Currently, I’m doing my best to relay a helpful spiritual message. Music may follow after I’ve met with adequate success. I’m just following Love’s lead.


Marshall Mallows

My interests change with the proverbial wind. I started guitar when I was ten and stopped in my early thirties. A forty year hiatus has left me with four fretful fingers and some meandering marshmallows with touchy-feely nerve endings for fingertips. I’ve developed arthritis in my chord hand, which is also fretful, but I can still play. So my “sweet little imagination” keeps me in tow.

“Nothing is easy”, so I’ve done an awful lot of that. I practice a little, I just need to develop a guitar “AllSpark”… a fun focused and determined spirit like in my youth and like what’s in Ed’s Art Net.

“Old age ain’t no place for sissies.”, Bette Davis

Dreams don’t materialize out of thin air. They materialize out of hard work.

When I was young, I had fun and worked hard at guitar and was able to delight my friends while annoying the crotchety old neighbors… A young “rebel without a cause”… Now I’m a crotchety old “rebel with a pause”.

Background music

Late in my career, my employer requested that I give them a retirement date so they could train a replacement. So I did. In 2016… I told them I would retire at the end of 2019. It wound up being January 3, 2020, just in time for the pandemic.

For years, I planned to rekindle my art and music hobbies at retirement. Well, plans are wasted if we don’t follow through. My “sweet little imagination” had me painting away and making gobs of guitar recordings once I retired. I started preparations years in advance, purchasing a surplus professional art table and guitar gear that I had only dreamed about as a teenager.

At 2020 retirement, I started out buffing up my art and music skills. This went on for a few months but I wasn’t feeling the joy that I had in my earlier life. Especially not for the guitar. So I added this music page to my website hoping to put a little friendly pressure on myself to get my guitar playing in gear. (Yep, there’s a pun there.) 🥴

I wound up going back to work in circuit board design until the end of May 2024.

Now I’m just not sure what I’m supposed to do with my music. Except I believe we’re supposed to do what we love… not what we loved.


Peddle Boogie & Jam

Gear Gallery 

Below is my PB&J instrument collection. It’s beautiful work by skilled craftsmen. Some of it is quite old. None of it makes me a skilled musician. Focused determination does that.

“Oblio” – Ovation Artist Balladeer
“Woody” – Gibson Standard LP accompanied with “Buzz” – Sweetwater Sound PreSonus/sE/Shure/Focusrite recording gear zeroed in on one of “Bullwinkle’s” eight Celestion G12 Marshall speakers
“Snoopy” – Fender American Standard Strat with accompaniment
“Marvin” – This is my electric guitar pedal board. For those of you who don’t know, these are electronic sound modulation and distortion foot controlled devices guitarists use to establish certain tones and effects in their playing. You could call it a foot stomping music machine.
“Optimus” – Furman power conditioner and
“Rocky” – Marshall MG15GR practice amp
“Bullwinkle” – Marshall JVM410H
Teen Dream Rig

HummerHead 2

If I recapture my guitar “AllSpark” I’ll post my recording here.


Music dedicated to Ash and KT
Susan’s songs of life

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Marshall Mallows â€“ what’s up
Peddle Boogie and Jam â€“ gear gallery
HummerHead 2 â€“ TBD

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