My First Solo album is "Total Freedom" which is only available on cassette on my website right now.But "Full Circle" my Latest CD  is over 74 minutes long,With a variety of styles of music.Theres a Mixture of Rock,Jazz and Blues with Mostly Instrumentals,there are also some Vocal tracks as well.The Cd contains Acoustic and Electric guitar pieces. Alot of the  songs on the Cd i play  Most of the instruments And recorded half of it in  my  Home studio, I think this has helped me grow as a  Musician .This is all mixed together like a soup,Which i call "just Music"

I think GIT is a great sohool.Its probably one of the best years of my life.Theres so many Amazing players at that school.It made me aware of Many other styles of music. I had some great teachers. I really learned alot,I cant say enough about it.Alot of Great Memories.

"Remote Control" is essentially a collection of tunes and songs that showcase the more guitaristic side of me. There is some pretty wild guitarstuff on this CD, but you have to look for it . The compositional aspect is still present. So it's not just a vehicle for guitar solos. A song like "Remote Control" is loaded with different parts and sounds. It is always important to me to create colors so that the listener can try to visualize his own impressions while he or she is listening to the music.

I am listening to a lot of different music , but at the moment , i'm especially big on Symphony X and dream Theater ! I am also listening to a lot of instrumental music , both heavy and fusion !

No at the moment, no!

I think that there's a lot of great music around and that the scene is very interesting and exciting !

A very very difficult question , but here goes : 1-Boston "Boston" , 2-Saga "Worlds Apart" , 3-Toto "Turn Back" , 4-Van Halen "1" , 5-Jetro Tull "Live:Bursting Out" , 6-Allan Holdsworth "I.O.U." , 7-Joe Satriani "Not Of This earth" , 8-Riot "Fire Down Under" , 9-Dream Theater "Images & Words" , 10-Symphony X "Twilight In Olympus" .

I like both bands , especially their debut albums ! George lynch and Jake E.Lee are both amazing guitarists !

I have only heard the 3 first songs of that album , but they all sound great ! I will definitely buy it sometime ! I think that Mr Big is a really great . Richie Kotzen is another amazing guitarist . Very versatile . The stuff he has done with greg Howe , as well as solo , is really great !

My main guitar is an Ibanez RG-620 which i am very fond of ! The heart in my set-up is definitely my X-99 Soldano Preamp . It's Amazing !!! My Power Amp is the Marshall 9200 . I'm using a Korg DTR-2 for tuning and the Digitech Quadro Verb 2 for effects . I have two Marshall Cabs , each with 4*12 Speakers . I'm using my Morley Bad Horsie for wah effects and that's pretty much it as i like to keep things simple !!!

Thank you! Take care and all the best.

My most recent projects are my next record Mantra and a compilation cd called Eyebleed which is a cd only available through MP3 Site . The cd includes two songs from Mantra , 3 Live songs and two demo songs called "Of The Earth" and "Dementia" . The problem i am having with Mantra is ... I want to find a good deal that satisfies me and is better than my last deal . A lot of artists today are releasing Cd's themselves , which is fine . But i do not want to do that yet ... I will wait and see if i can get a label who believes in the music as much as i do . I am speaking with Steve Vai about maybe putting it out on his Favored Nations label , so we will see .

I like the new songs a lot ! I am very proud of my progression from the Balance record . My songs writing is getting even better now . The songs u have heard are just the tip of the iceberg heheheheheee ... there is a lot more playing on this record then my previous Cd . But i still keep my attention on melody . I like to treat the Guitar as a Voice . My songs have a chorus and verse ... like vocal songs ... they are not just vehicles for me to solo , i think this comes across in my music . it is filled with a lot of emotion .

I have been friends with Joe and Steve for many years . I consider them to be the best players . They have given me mouch inspiration and i enjoy listening to there music a lot ! As far as rapport's or stories nothing to interesting ... just basic kind of stuff . How i first go to speak to them was by sending them some copies of my early demos Balance . they both gave me there criticisms and opinions on what i could do to make my playing better and stuff like that . i am very appreciative of there friendship and i would love to someday play on the same bill as one of them ...

I do not like much of the music that is out at this time . I do like the new Dream theater Cd , i like the new Sting Cd , Ultra Zone's Steve Vai , Jeff Beck's last records "Who Else" was incredible cd ... I no a lot of people hated the last Metallica record ... but i like it alot ... you cannot expect artists to say the same ... you have to progress and try new things and new area's ... so that is what they are doing ... and i respect it alot . I also like the new Prince Cd ... Rave until the year 2000 ... great Cd and a very under rated guitarists . He is an incredible player and songwriter ...

The future of guitar is really up to everybody out there . The new technology is just moving so fast ... I predict a new form of the instrument to appear in the next couple of years . since the history of guitar it really has not changed that much . So something will be introduced that is going to blow are heads away and it will not be accepted by the masses , not at first . As far as the Internet is concerned alot more artist's will be releasing there own music and not depensing on the record companies ... It's already starting as we speak ...

That is a long time isn't it. First of all, I have always loved both instrumental and vocal music equally, and my attention has shifted from one to the other from time to time. I had the poor fortune of releasing Ground Zero (we ran the label out of my bedroom) at precisely the moment when Grunge was breaking. The record actually charted in the U.S. and stayed on the Gavin Rocks top 50 for six weeks consecutively. Had it not been for the timing we probably would have been picked up by a "Major" if for no other purpose than a tax write off. I got a P&D (press and distribution) in Japan and sold a couple thousand copies over there as well. The good news is that I had a lot of fun, and most importantly I learned one heck of a lot about the business by doing myself and with the help of my now ex-wife.
In Einstone, we purposely made the decision to not solicit the "Majors" until 2001. Instead we began to craft what we feel is an intelligent course of action. What started out as our demo (with the full intention that we would have long since shopped it to the majors) has now become our first disc.
We in turn have spent a lot of time fine tuning our live show in preparation for what we are about to do - a ton of shows. We will be playing in December a total of 7 times at a number of the San Francisco Bay Area's most respected venues. We are lucky in that Hayley, Atma and I are reasonably well known here for our various bands and projects, so we have been very lucky in terms of response from the talent buyers at the various venues. We also put together a somewhat flashy package that gets delivered to each club in a Priority Mail box. Having run a small label, I was always amazed at how poorly artists chose to present their work. I got one package I swear was wrapped in a brown paper bag with a stamp on it. Take yourself seriously and at least people won't snicker if you don't look like they do. Our whole strategy is to become successful on a regional level so in turn we can demonstrate to the major labels that we have what it takes and in turn their job will be to do what we have done but on a larger scale. The band is very commercial, image oriented, and most importantly very dance oriented. We have a lot to offer without a hint of selling out. We all love pop music and crafting a catchy hook laden groove. The key for us is that everything has to be in an odd meter, but feel completely round.
Since we recorded "Space Lounge" we decided to take the dance element of our repertoire and really focus on how we can build our set into an odd-metered dance fest by grooving the backbeat extra hard. We have added a lot of dance sections similar to an extended dance mix to provide our audiences a thorough opportunity to get their dance yayas out.

We are lucky in that we have fallen into something quite original - a blessing or the kiss of death depending on how you see it. The idea of having an odd-metered dance band let alone pop band is something that most musicians would not entertain until they heard it. Hayley has a fantastic voice and is blessed with a completely intuitive ability to both write and sing in odd meters. The fashion model looks don't hurt either, but she wouldn't be in the band if she couldn't turn it on both in the studio and on stage. Atma is best known for his work with Shrapnel artists like Richie Kotzen and Tony MacAlpine. What many people don't know is that he is an exceptional writer and has both a great singing and Dance Hall style scat voice. His arrangement skills are off the hook and when it comes to the fat backbeat groove he is the king, especially in odd-meters.
Our next disc will be more demonstrative of our latest departure from where we have come as a band. Less playing more grooving, but still enough guitar (both distorted and lead) to make a guitar nut happy. Most of the tones I use are distorted neck position sounds that I clean up by backing off on the volume control. I am using Line6 amps (I have two heads and one combo for smaller venues) and love the ability to jump from the fat Rectifier tone to a really rich clean chorus sound which is becoming a bigger part of our sound for some of the Reggae/Ska influenced breakdowns in some of the songs. We just reworked "If We Share Our Hearts" and I am going to be using a lot of the clean sound on that. There are hints of Calypso in another song that we just finished called "Another Pyramid" that mainly switches back between 7 and 6 and "oddly" enough is super danceable. The breakdown section goes to the aforementioned clean tone. There have been way too many bands who have beaten the Ska groove into the ground, so it is understand that in the band you will NEVER hear me doing the traditional upbeat rhythm pattern. Instead I create a harmonic bed on top of which Atma often goes into his Dance Hall rap.

Seems like you did a little background research. To that I get to add I have been surrounded by a sea of successful musicians, and for whatever reason real commercial success has eluded me to this point, although I am not the least bit bitter. I feel we have a vision and our goal is to share that with the world. We feel that the "Euros" as I affectionately call my European friends will particularly like the band because of our diversity. They love Shaggy and Dance Pop music and we bring a bit of both to the table but with a lot of guitar in the mix! We are grateful for bands like Korn who have blended rock and rap allowing the kids here in the States to broaden their ears. Korn really broke new ground that I think will be very helpful for bands like Einstone in terms of diversity in approach. Per the whole career thing, in many ways I am grateful not to have been too well known for big hair, pointy boots, and too many notes. There are a lot of guys who will never live that down and as an end result will have a heck of a time with their careers. Our whole strategy in this band is do the work, get the result. We live it and I in turn teach it to my students.
In regard to "Satch", when I came back from GIT in L.A. Joe asked me to teach at the studio I still occupy in Berkeley while he went out on the road with (yes really) the Greg Kihn Band. When he came back we alternated teaching days and then when "Surfing" hit he split and I stayed. One of the highlights of our relationship was playing with him at the Bill Graham Memorial in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in front of 250,000 people. Other bands that day included the first reunion of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Journey; Tracy Chapman and numerous others. My ex snapped a photo which I keep by my bed. It is good to keep both the path of the past and the present in mind as you move through life. It will provide balance as you chart your course.

That about sums it up heavy ,aggressive, lots of chops .

Well I love the Buckethead stuff I think he's really insane. I haven't heard the knew Beck or Satriani.

I'm currently using and endorsing Jackson guitars and Seymour Duncan pickups. I have a fender M-80 preamp , Rocktron multi efx,and power amps, Marshall 4x12 cabinets and various floorpedals oh yea I have one of those line 6 pods those are really cool .

Yes stick to your guns man don't let trends influence your music , be true to yourself and practice,practice, practice. Oh yea don't forget to buy my cd!!!!!!