Who Am I?
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![]() ![]() Audio Post Production Design Engineer The year 1957 was a great one for many things: Chevrolets, Gibson Les Paul guitars, electric watches, Frisbees, the Cavern Club (Liverpool), and ME (I was born that year)! I spent my childhood playing in the woods outside Knoxville, Tennessee, and hiking and camping in the Great Smoky Mountains and along the East Tennessee rivers and lakes. My father built his own hi-fi systema and tape recorder and one day discovered an eight year-old me recording with it. In 1967, my parents gave me my first open-reel tape recorder for my birthday. In 1970 when I was thirteen, they gave me a Sears Silvertone Classical guitar for Christmas. That same year, I was roped into mixing my first live radio broadcast. It was all downhill from there! During high school I played in the usual lot of garage bands and spent hours in the woodshed honing my chops. After graduating from high school, I studied at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies. While at Covenant College, I met the girl of my dreams, the former Ruth Elizabeth Czarniak, a lovely, wonderful gal who is also my best friend. Ruth was a 1977 New Jersey All-State choral first soprano, so we shared an abiding love of music. We spent my last year at Covenant wandering the trails of Lookout Mountain and getting to know each other. In 1980, Ruth and I were married at her home church in the shadow of the Watchung Mountains in New Jersey. ![]() ![]() On top of the World Trade Center, 1978 ![]() ![]() Studio Photos Through the Years Guitar Photos Through the Years Contact Me = ![]()
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