As a kid, I had two dreams: rockin' out on the guitar and kickin' butt in the martial arts. Alas, I also grew up poor in rural Pennsylvania and lacked the opportunity of doing either. Luckily fate intervened placing a guitar in my hands at the tender age of twenty-six, and I have never looked back. Over the last ten-years, I studied with some of the finest guitarists on the West Coast including Bay Area legends' David Haas, Patrick Greene, Mimi Fox, and Johnny Nitro, graduated from the Portland Community College Professional Music Program, and won numerous academic awards and scholarships Toda...