Way back in high school my nickname became “Drummer”. Although I didn’t become a “full-time” musician, most of my life has been associated with music. I started playing piano when I was in the first grade and snare drum in the third grade. From the age of 8 until 18, I was in marching bands, jazz combos, and rock bands. During college, I only played occasionally, but I spent the summers playing in rock and country bands in bars and night clubs.

After college, I met a producer who was working in a Denver studio with local musicians, and I fell in love with recording.  The engineers took me under their wings and taught me everything about recording music. Eventually, we all ended up at Caribou Ranch recording an album for Epic Records. Myself and our Electronics Maintenance engineer were hired and I spent the next 4 years assisting many major artists with their albums.

When that came to an end, I wound up teaching recording engineering to Denver high school students - one of a few such courses in the world at the time. While doing this, I also began playing drums again in a local country band.

Next, I became one of the sound engineers for The Denver Center for the Performing Arts. We recorded music and sound effects for the “live” productions, and operated the sound during the plays. 

As you can imagine, throughout all this time, I worked with lots of musicians from many different genres - rock, jazz, punk, classical, folk, and country. I love musicians, and I understand them. Well, I’m not sure musicians can always be understood, even by themselves. Ha!

For the past few years, I have not been involved in music very much, and it’s been eating away at me. So, I’ve decided to do something different, and build a web presence around helping the independent musician promote themselves and their music. I’m learning as I go, but that’s the point. Let me do the research, and pass it on to you. That way, all you have to do is visit my websites and blogs to get help. You don’t have to spend a lot of your time, better spent developing your craft, doing your own research.

I invite you to become a regular visitor to this blog, and give me feedback. Tell me what you need to know, or want to know, and I’ll find the answer!

Thanks for visiting!

Tom

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