I've been playing drums on and off since the age of 6. I am mostly self taught. Any lessons I took were more abstract, avante garde' type. I really like jazz fusion because of the overall feel and freedom of expression within the music. I give tremendous credit to the young technical players I see playing some very difficult music on the internet. I was in a progressive rock band called "APOSTLE", back in the late 1970's, early 1980's. We played "YES", "GENESIS", "ELP", "KANSAS", as well as some originals. We have regrouped Apostle after 28 years. Hopefully we will be back out playing various venues by the spring of 2008. Our last keyboardist in that band was Jordan Rudess, who is presently with Dream Theater. I took quite a bit of time off from playing. I was a bit busy raising a family and building a business or two. I know I will never make a living playing drums, but it's fun and I do love playing.