My introduction to recording came in 1984 when I met up with a young guitarist/would-be producer named Mark Fitchett. He was Canadian; a terrific bloke, living in LA and he welcomed me to his humble studio in Hermosa Beach, California and set about recording about 8 demos. Yes copies do still exist ! The bug well and truly bit and I’ve spent many, many hours over the years in various studios trying to get the right production, whilst always learning from the producers and engineers. Most notable have been the great Harvey Mann, the gifted Jeff Cripps the multi-talented Shane Maronese and very gifted Steve Manovski. During this period, in 1991, I purchased my own little recording studio set-up and began making backing tracks for live gigs and recording some very average quality original demos. With the improvement in technology (and some of my skills), a far more sophisticated set-up developed and today I can arrange and record my own songs with me in the Producer’s chair (no one else to blame)

A big desire was to record an entire album using session players. In 2012 I engaged Producer Steve Manovski from Origami Studios in Sydney to facilitate just that. The result saw 9 of Sydney’s finest musicians come together to help me record 12 original songs on what was to become my debut album: “Map Out A Dream”. I demo’d the songs and their arrangements and essentially left it to Steve and the players to work their magic with me adding guitars and vocals. Working my full-time job by day, I would drive an hour to the studio by night and pore over the recording sessions. With a deadline to meet, we wrapped things up in about 4 weeks ! Though the result is there for everyone to hear. What I cherish the most is having achieved a life-long dream of doing it “old school”. Without the love and support of my beautiful wife Julie, NONE of this would have been possible.