BIO / RESUME:

 

1950s~~~~

Born in Warren, Ohio, 1952.

Attends Bazetta Elementary School.

Develops interest in music and entertainers on television, and ventriloquism.

 

1960s~~~~

Takes private drum lessons.

Becomes a serious student of top 40 radio.

First experiences with a guitar.

Attends Lakeview High School, Cortland, OH.

Exposure to area / nationally known rock bands at local teen dances.

Develops songwriting abilities, becomes familiar with using various tape recorders.

First performance on drums with other school chums at age 14, "The 4th Dimensions".

Plays drums with rock group "The Phantoms".

Plays drums with rock group "The Reported Freeman's Sound".

Plays guitar with rock group "The Difference Between".

Works selling Christmas trees.

 

1970s~~~~

Elected president of Lakeview High School senior class of 1970.

Plays drums with band Freeman Sound, who wins local "battle of the bands" and records locally released 45 on "Starshine" label which was played on local radio and juke boxes.

Attends Youngstown State U, Dana School of Music, with guitar as major and percussion as minor.

Period of personal calamity with breakup of band and with teenage sweetheart.

Plays guitar with rock group "another" Freeman Sound.

Becomes more familiar with creating band promotional materials and booking.

Interior painting / department store.

Goes to Chicago to join band that never materializes.

Works doing inventory for drug store.

Returns to Ohio, reforms "another" Freeman Sound.

Single handedly records two original songs for personally released 45 in local studio.

Two trips to Hollywood in effort to interest record companies in original songs.

(Record companies say they "want to hear more", but personal situation not conducive to producing more studio quality demos).

Plays guitar with other groups including "Skin Tite" and "The Ace Fox Show".

Develops solo guitar / harmonica / vocals "Oldies & Blues" act.

Gives private guitar and drum lessons.

 

1980s~~~~

Married, daughter born.

More solo performances around NE Ohio, band involvements.

Works at concession stands at bingo hall and fair.

Church involvement, runs PA, records services, gives puppet presentations, performs solo in an effort to develop musical ministry with original music. 

Interior and exterior painting / home and other, decorative mural creation.

Does misc. yard work, landscaping.

 

1990s~~~~

Attends Kent State U, Trumbull branch and main campus, seeks degree in Rhetoric and Communication with minor of Creative Writing.

More solo performances, band involvements.

Dissolution of marriage, which had turned out to be basically one long nightmare.

Works washing dishes.

Carries on through what may best be described as a phase of problematic "paranormal whatnot", the cause of which remains mostly a mystery.

Moves to Vermont for job opportunity, to give daughter chance for a new life, be closer to elderly parents.

Works at ski resort, maintenance.

Works at produce warehouse, runner, order preparations, packaging materials manager.

Creates first internet presence by developing own web site.

Hones typing and writing abilities.

First home studio efforts to record original songs on multi-track cassette tape unit.

Both parents pass away within a time period of a few years.

 

2000s~~~~

Returns to Ohio to assist daughter who had become trapped in a disadvantaged situation, and attempt to re-establish solo act, local network of musicians and friends.

Works at telemarketing, customer service center.

Works at plastic product factory as machine operator.

Works at hardware store, promoting heating and cooling products and home services .

Works at retirement center, maintenance.

Creates CDs of original music with home computer recording studio.

 

2010s~~~~

Works at senior activity center, maintenance and other misc. duties until time of eligibility for subsidized part time "work / training" program expires. 

Continues to work at recording own songs with home studio, promoting past recordings, band history, various aspects of his "Ideas & Artistry", online and otherwise.

Some health problems developed in the winter of 2014 slowed up matters, but as of the end of 2018, he's single handedly accomplished the recording of "Volume 7" of "L J's Lost Songs / Greatest Hits That Never Were"

 

CURRENT  GOALS:

Financial security remains a concern. 

 

I'd like to help save the U.S.A. from being completely taken over by the international global-satanist network that is currently threatening to do so through corrupting virtually every politician and aspect of life in America, using Mexican drug gangs, Islamists and the U.N. to physically invade the country, while their main stream media propaganda tries to make it seem like socialist/communist globalism is the way to go with things. I lament that a lot of young people and too many contemporaries of mine regard the democrat "leftist / liberals" as if they were the same as they were in the '60s. Today's "leftist/liberals" are actually intentional or un-intentional agents for the international global-satanists, who are based in "The City of London Corporation" (corporate banking), Washington D.C. (military power) and the Vatican ("religious authority", which is actually Luciferian/Satanic in nature).

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I have ideas about how and where I'd like to live these days, but have little means to bring too much to come to pass. I'm always thinking of ways various structures and commercial buildings might be used to help, educate and encourage people in the course of producing income through various endeavors.

Various types of public performances and presentations may be attempted.

 

 

BRIEF PERSONAL OVERVIEW:

As a young man, I had high hopes for a successful career as a songwriting musician.

Some levels of at least local success were experienced.

A series of misfortunes resulted from encountering some insurmountable difficulties and less than tolerable outcomes of professional and personal situations.

Emotional hardships have been endured, I consider a lot of the time of my life as having been mostly wasted.

I appreciate being appreciated, and though I'm not into music for "fame" or being "idolized", I do feel like I'm somewhat of a fallen-through-the-cracks "coulda / shoulda / woulda been" rock star that never "made it". I still consider my songs as my "lottery tickets". Maybe not much of a chance of them bringing me great fortune, but none the less, I think they're about as good, in their own way, as most anyone else's.

As it is, I'm pleased to carry on with attempting to salvage my later years here, coming down the home stretch on a crowded highway, as a "fallen hero on a last chance power drive".

I try to  recognize and share the truth of matters as I may with those I can, and, if possible,  contribute something positive to the lives of others, maybe come up with a little extra dough and live a peaceful life.