FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS
WHERE
ARE YOU
PERFORMING?
I am not, although I would like to get on stage
again. I keep busy with our business,
in the studio, with my
other writing(s)
... not to mention helping my wonderful wife take
care of our son. Am I looking for work? You
bet. If you are in a band and are anywhere near the
Sacramento, California area please take
a listen
to some of my music and see if we are a match and
then drop
me a note
(we use this form only to help reduce SPAM).
Type of music: Gospel? Uh,
probably not. Something Christ-centered? Yeah,
maybe! Christian rock? Possibly, let's talk! Other?
Ok, let's see what you had in mind! I am really hot on "oldies" rock right now: Guess Who, 3 Dog Night, etc. It will pass, I am sure.
WHAT ABOUT MP3.com?
Vivendi-Universal sold the assets of MP3.com in
2003 and CNET ended up with the domain name. At the
time of this writing it is not clear yet if they
know what to do with it, but if you visit the
MP3.com site you will see that they have plans for
both signed and unsigned bands. The interruption of
service to hundreds of thousands of independent
musicians is almost unbelievable, and I did not
escape without problems. We had launched an
Internet-Only-Release (IOR) site using streams
hosted by MP3.com. This is no longer available. We
had released a CD through the MP3.com Direct Access
CD program. This is no longer available. We are
sorry for any inconvenience, and are working to
restore comparable (or better!) services on this
site. Our newest SIX
SONG SAMPLER
replaces the Direct Access CD we had released
through MP3.com, and we will continue to develop
new content for our
site(s).
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RICHARD IIII CD?
This is a pet project of mine that I have been
working on for more than 10 years. You'd think in
that amount of time the bloody thing would be done,
but please keep in mind that originally I had
intended to convert every line of text from the
play into a musical phrase. And there are 3600
lines of text in the play! My current thinking is
that this project may outlive me, so I have scaled
back slightly and am now working to create a
"musical soundtrack" of themes and motifs
representative of characters and scenes from the
play. This may come as a two volume work, or I may
consider it complete if I ever finish the first CD.
It is in process and I am writing on this on an
ongoing basis. Some early tracks are available from
my web
site
and from the Six
Song Sampler
CD. Stay tuned for more!
WHAT ABOUT THE INNER LIGHT FOUNDATION?
This is such a sad situation. It is hard to find a
positive lesson in this. For those who may not
know, the Inner Light Foundation (ILF) is a
nonprofit, non-denominational spiritual
organization which was founded by Betty Bethards in
1966 and which I have been involved with in some
capacity for eight or nine years. When Betty died
in 2002 her husband, Charles Rubin, began managing
the organization. He asked if I would join the
Board of Directors where I served as Vice
President. Charles is a wonderful person on many
levels but, like all of us, there are some dark
spots in his personality and, compounded by his
grief over the loss of Betty and the strain in
running a nonprofit, a dark spot rose to the
surface in the summer of 2003 when he made an
unfounded claim regarding our business relationship
with him, the ILF and his publishing company.
Caught in a difficult situation I felt I needed to
resign from the ILF Board. I exchanged emails with
Betty's daughter and spoke and wrote to friends of
the ILF and ultimately decided to let go. Our
company, Montanesque Enterprises, discontinued
providing order processing and fulfillment for
Betty's books and tapes and we also discontinued
our management of their web site. I have been
deeply saddened by both what Charles said and how
we felt we needed to respond - it is not unlike the
death of a loved one.
I had started a series of articles for the
Foundation web site called "Walking In The
Light" and am planning to incorporate those as
part of the redress of my music site
(click
here).
I feel there I have more to say and plan to
continue to write.
WHAT ABOUT YOUR INVOLVEMENT IN THE RCIA?
My beliefs about God had been buried for a good
deal of my life and it is a most thrilling
experience to be able to make this sort of personal
discovery and to talk about it openly. To borrow an
expression, I have "come out" for Christ and am
calling all other closet Christians to make a
commitment to vocalize and evangelize their
faith.
RCIA is the Rite of Christian Initiation in Adults,
and is a way for Christian adults of other faiths
to become members of the Catholic Church. In the
Fall of 2003 I made the Rite of Acceptance and
publicly professed my intent to follow Jesus and to
become a member of the Church. This will culminate
at Easter 2005 when I participate in the Sacrament
of Initiation, which is followed by a year of
further participation as a Neophyte. Will this
impact my writing? You bet. While the
requirements of my parish are minimal, I have found
a desire to learn more about both the Church and
the Word. As a result, the time I have for both my
musical and text writings has been dramatically
reduced. This is temporary and I have already
started making time for both of those important
pieces of my life. Was I abducted by aliens and
did they switch me with someone else? At times
it really does almost seem that way. Where I am now
is extraordinarily different than where I was even
three months ago. It is either mental illness gone
rampant or the divine work of God - and I prefer to
think it the latter (although I am sure there may
be some who will want to argue this point).
I HAVE A QUESTION, HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU?
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here.
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can also contact me through Montanesque Enterprises
(web,
contact
info).
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