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When I was growing up, the only music available to me was my parents Reader's Digests record collections of popular movie music from the 40's, 50's, and 60's.
I joined my first band in 1977, and that was also when I started to listen to more "contemporary" music.
The keyboard setup in 1978:
We played a progressive/fusion styled music influenced by artists and bands like Frank Zappa, Yes, Weather Report, and Return to Forever etc. Playing that kind of music at such a young age really did set the compass for my musical preferences from then on, as did the movie music from my parents record collections.
The group called "Flakes" in the summer of 1978:
A few years later I became a session player, a recording engineer, while still playing in a lot of bands. There were some heavy touring and recording going on in the eighties. I also wrote and recorded some music to corporate information videos for clients like Ericsson and ABB, among others.
In the Studio 1998:
I was never at ease with being on stage. And for awhile I thought my stagefright by time would disappear, or at least diminish. But it got worse over the years. As the stagefright severly affects my playing in a negative way, I nowadays try as much as possible to avoid playing live and are concentrating more on the actual songwriting, which I also think is more fun.
Soundcheck in 2000:
That's pretty much where I decided to try my hands on creating catalogue music, and have it placed in different music libraries. And in only one and a half year I've managed to place some of my music in several music libraries, most of them located in the Los Angeles area.
Having said all this, there is a special feeling just being in a band, and for the last 15 years I've been a member of the progressive rockgroup Galleon. On occasion we release an album, and go for a couple of gigs every four years or so.
Rotherham Rocks, UK 1996:
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