I started playing piano aged 8 years old and then because I was growing up in the 60s taught myself to play guitar. I played in a number of rock cover bands starting at age 14. I played for a number of years with a very talented singer songwriter called "Guy McDonough" and arranged and played his songs that later became big hits for a band called Australian Crawl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nap-gw171dw

After my buddy Guy died in 1984 I helped his brother record some post humous tracks for an EMI album. One song I helped complete had the assistance of Colin Haye from "Men At Work" who sang harmony plus the first verse that we were missing. That Men At Work vocal sound is very easy to pick Too Many People

After that I went through my punk/New Wave period playing 7+ gigs a week with a band called "The Name" opening for acts like INXS and The Divinyls http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum35/HTML/001385.html

After 3 years of playing 7 days a week I became burned out and moved on with my career in video games that relocated me to Los Angeles. Although I didn't play live for a while I did do some recording with a close friend Chris Wood who played guitar Cantus Firmus.mp3

After having a break from playing live for over 10 years I returned to playing again with a local classic rock cover band around Los Angeles and Ventura Counties ( http://www.redrhythm.com ) and still play with them 10 years later. Occasionally we play Las Vegas for corporate gigs there ( MGM Grand, Paris, The Bellagio and Caesar's Palace ).

Oh yeah did I mention that in the mid 90s I started a website for electronic keyboards called http://synthzone.com ... maybe you have come across it at sometime.



[This message has been edited by Nigel (edited 05-13-2010).]