Toto disbands

Well, one of my favorite groups just recently disbanded. I'm bummed! I've always wanted to see them in concert and the chance of that now is out of the question. There's always hope - Asia, another one of my favs, recently regrouped to produce Phoenix. It seems that Toto always got the brunt of bad criticism by music reviewers and I've never understood why. All of the members could play circles around most of the artists out there on pop radio. I own all of their albums, so I have the advantage of a wider perspective than those who only know their radio hits. Their music was a combination of jazz/pop/rock elements - perhaps that's why the critics didn't like them.

Well, I uploaded three "samples" that I created a year back. I borrowed my school's Yamaha Motif-7 keyboard and began experimenting with different sounds. It's funny how the tambre of certain instruments evoke melodies. Anyway, what came out of that session were these short pieces. Most were done spur of the moment with minimal rehearsal - I pressed record on the computer and that's what came out.

First post

Well, here's my first post - my first blog. I've transferred most of my personal pics over from our family's homepage as my wife is moving from that to her own personal blog, which focuses on scrapbooking. The emphasis of the homepage is about our biggest blessing, our daughter, Kaitlyn. She came into our life on July 31, 2005. Her story is a touching one and one that's positively changed our life forever. If you'd like to read more of it, I've included it in the links. My wife's site is also listed there. As soon as I figure things out, I want to upload my own musical compositions, which is the purpose of this blog. In the meantime, uploading photos was the easiest thing to accomplish. I hope to see things improve as time goes along.