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I started playing music at 10, in rock bands, by 14... Unlike almost everyone here.. I was brought up on rock and english pop... I split my teen and 20's between doing art, writing poetry, writing songs, and play rock'nroll.. I made a living doing photography for a while. Taught myself, Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator, and did CD cover art for a while.. Art and photography came easy for me. But by my mid 20's I focused much more on music.. Much harder for me, but there is no greater thrill for me, to hear one of my compositions coming thru a great pair of speakers.. I started playing organ in church, then joined a rock band in high school.. I studied Hammond Organ and learned from 30's - 60's Fake books.. Then a tremendous amount of self taught, and working in recording studios. I quit bands at 30 just to work in recording studios. I got heavily involved in analog modular synths, and thru the years worked for several hardware synth companies, and then at music software companies, as a demonstrator, de-bugger. I was the most musician, the code writers were more engineers.. I took several online courses at Berklee.. So I spend a significant amount of my life, making a living as a musician.. For the last 10 years, now I only write for myself.. It's experimentation, and fun.. Although I've worked and made records, a lot of it was me working for someone else.. Now at 67, it's 'me' time.. Got too frazzled over deadlines,, too many producers, and people wanting to be in charge..