Playing again…

As some of you know, I’ve been a musi­cian for most of my life (I started play­ing drums and gui­tar 30 years ago at age 11). For well over 15 of those 30 years, music had been far more than a hobby for me and my band­mates as we strived to “make it” in the music indus­try and I dreamed of mak­ing a liv­ing with my music. We worked very hard at it and achieved many of our goals but it was not to be…

As you are already aware of if you read the about me page, my last band sep­a­rated over 6 years ago and I’d pretty much stopped play­ing gui­tar since then prefer­ing out of frus­tra­tion and other rea­sons and chose to devote my time and ener­gies to per­fect­ing the craft of Web design and devel­op­ment instead and that is pro­gress­ing quite well. But now I’m glad to say that I’ve started play­ing and writ­ing music again. I’ve got the cre­ative itch again and I’m enjoy­ing play­ing once more.

This was in large part fueled by some great news I had last year. If you don’t mind me tout­ing my own horn, a song I wrote back in 1987 has been recorded and will be released by Martin Deschamps which is one of Quebec’s best rock artist/​singer. His album launch with my song on it (which even more amaz­ingly will be the first sin­gle!) is this Wednesday and I’m very excited about it although I have yet to hear his ver­sion. But know­ing his pre­vi­ous work I’m sure it will be very good.

The song was a very spe­cial one for me. The lyrics were first writ­ten in English then adapted to French about 5 years later with the help of Isabelle my wife. It was writ­ten about one of the most sig­nif­i­cant parts of my life and it meant a lot to me. I’m very happy to see it resurected so many years later and to see that it still touches peo­ple. It’s an amaz­ing feeling…