I am a Musician, Songwriter, Guitar Tutor and a part-time Music Journalist and growing up music has always been an important part of my life and I currently own over 3900 albums. My sister bought me my first guitar for my 14th birthday and I spent almost every afternoon teaching myself how to play it so I could write and sing songs to my best friend/first girlfriend. She was musically talented and I was going to be in a country music duo with her when we were older but she passed away when she was 17 and after that I went through depression and tried to kill myself. During those years I found music to be one of the few things that made me happy and I taught myself how to play the piano, bass and drums and wrote at least a thousand songs.

I also started collecting albums by the dozen from artists and bands like Journey, Cheap Trick, Moody Blues, Todd Rundgren, The Beatles, Uriah Heep, Kiss, Ryan Adams, The Cars, Frank Sinatra, Letters to Cleo, Juliana Hatfield, Tears For Fears, Blue Oyster Cult, Better Than Ezra, Barry Manilow, Amy Grant, The Goo Goo Dolls, Black Sabbath, Foreigner, Wings, The Beach Boys, April Wine, Aerosmith, Joe Lyn Turner, Glenn Hughes, Addison Road, Pat Benatar, The Cure, Brad, Heart, Triumph, Nazareth, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Sammy Davis Jr, George Jones, Duncan Sheik, Pearl Jam, Heather Nova, Bachman Turner-Overdrive, The Guess Who, The Innocence Mission, Kiss, The Lemonheads, Iron Maiden, John Lennon, Jill Sobule, Martina McBride, George Harrison, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Helloween, Axxis, Van Halen, Alice Cooper, Trisha Yearwood, Deep Purple, Waylon Jennings, Aimee Mann, UFO, The Byrds etc and yes, for those reading I am aware I am obsessed with music and you can blame that on my ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome or OCD. I am pretty sure it is one of the three

Most of my friends say I am a music genius and while I think that is going a bit too far my Wife says it is not and she is my biggest fan along with my Sister. My Wife isn’t as obsessed with music as me but she had a very large collection of albums when I met her too and her Father was a well-known Music Journalist here in Australia and she was the lead vocalist of an Alt Rock band when she was younger and they got to play support for Killing Heidi in Victoria a few times. Our love of music and the type of music we liked was one of the things that brought us closer together and I couldn’t picture myself being with somebody that didn’t love music as much as me and share the same tastes.

How important is musical taste to you?