I am very excited about my latest C.D. "These Times" It's for sale on CD Baby. Click the link below to hear a few of the tracks.

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I am very excited about my latest C.D. "These Times" It's for sale on CD Baby. Click the link below to hear a few of the tracks.

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Hello everyone. Hope your summer is going well.

I would like to invite you to check out my My Space profile to listen to some of my original music. Yes, I am a tortured artist through and through and music makes the picture complete.

Please go to [link] and have a listen to a few of my songs. I am releasing my third C.D. this summer.

Enjoy,

Pete

It was February of 1974 when I discovered The Beatles. I got my first guitar four years later and started writing songs about 20 years after that.

Before I started writing songs I would listen to music for hours. I would sit in my bedroom and listen to The Beatles, The Who, The Stones, James Taylor, Metallica, Led Zepplin...you name it, I listened to it. I really listened. I would sit and jut be amazed at the sounds coming out of my speakers...and I was completely sober. . After I started writing songs my listening enjoyment all changed.

Instead of listening I began critiquing the songs that I once loved. Some songs that were my favorites fell victim to my over analytical mind and I would tear each one apart saying things like, "God! How did this one ever get released? How did this one ever get recorded?"
etc. etc. It's just something that you do when you write songs. I know because I have met TONS of songwriters and they all have experienced the exact same thing.

Well, today, for the first time in 20 years I actually LISTENED to a variety of music. I didn't critique it, I didn't analyze it I just LISTENED. It was like I was a kid again. Some of the songs made me feel like a kid again. Others brought memories flooding back into my mind. Night Moves by Bob Segar always sends me back to eighth grade when my class went on a camping trip to Kelley's Island in Lake Erie.

Stop and listen to the music. Embrace what you hear and cherish it.

Has the entire country gone mad.

Today I walked into a UPS store to mail a package containing a book and a C.D. I approached the counter an employee who was a young man maybe 25 years old asked me how he could help me. I told him that I wanted to mail this package and I wanted to have it marked fragile. He said, "Fragile?" I said yes, Fragile. He said, "Oh no, you don't want to mark it fragile. If someone here is having a bad day and they see that your package is marked fragile they may intentionally step on it or kick it." I said, "Excuse me, would you mind repeating what you just said?" The young man reiterated what he had just said in an attempt to dissuade me from having the package marked fragile. I said, "So, if I put the contents of my package in a box would one of your employees run it over with a car?" He said, "No, I am just saying that some times people are in a bad mood here and when they see "fragile" written on a package they will take their frustrations out on the package. I said, "I tell you what, why don't I take my package to the United States Postal Service because you're nuts.

As I left the store I began to wonder if every singe person in the country has gone mad. I wasn't wondering this just because of what the UPS employee said to me but over the last year my wife and I have seen some of the strangest things from doctors, friends, relatives, public servants, waiters, waitresses you name it. It's been an absolute freak show.

I recently had a business acquaintance tell me that they could heal people. They said that they had the same healing power as Jesus. I have been having problems with on of my knees lately so , I decided to see if they could heal me. This person laid hands on me and guaranteed me that I would feel a great warmth in my leg and in a matter of moments my knee would be healed. Well as they placed their hands on me I didn't feel any warmth and when I stood up my knee still ached. To be nice I didn't tell them that their healing powers had fallen short of miraculous. I didn't want to destroy their ego and their relationship with Jesus. They also told me that they were psychic and told me I was a Gemini and I politely responded, "Sorry, I am a Scorpio."

At what point in a persons life do they become so incredibly delusional and out of touch that they truly believe that they are psychic and able to heal people. I admit, being a musician I am a little strange, maybe more than most and a bit delusional but at least I am aware of my shortcomings. I am finding that most people either have no clue or don't care.

So, the moral of the story, IF your delusional your probably better off because you're in a much better place than the rest of us. Enjoy it.