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03/05/1971
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I played the trombone for my first concert ever with the Wind Ensemble at Ponce de Leon Junior High School.
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06/1976
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I did my first gig playing bass with The New World, one of the top bands in South Florida. It took place at the Sonesta Beach Hotel in Key Biscayne.
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06/08/1976
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I purchased an Acoustic 406 Bass speaker bottom with 2 Herald-Eminent 15-inch speakers from Carroll Music.
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08/28/1976
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I purchased an Acoustic 370 Bass amplifier from Ace Music Center.
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09/10/1976
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I purchased a King 3-B Model 1403 Trombone with a laquer finish.
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11/15/1976
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I purchased a 1976 Fender Stratocaster electric guitar with a maple neck, natural finish and black pickguard from Ace Music Center.
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01/24/1978
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I purchased a 1977 Fender Precision Bass with a maple neck, black finish and black pickguard from Ace Music Center.
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04/04/1978
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I auditioned on bass with The Hotlanta Band.
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05/09/1978
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I did my first gig playing bass with The Hotlanta Band at Giovanni’s in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.
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09/13/1978
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I purchased a Kramer Electric Bass Guitar with an aluminum neck from Carroll Music Corp.
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02/12/1979
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I purchased an Acoustic 301 folded horn bass cabinet with a Cerwin-Vega 18-inch speaker from Carroll Music Corp.
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11/28/1981
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I played bass with The New World for a wedding all the way in Denver, Colorado.
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06/27/1982
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I played bass with the New World at a party for Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula.
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12/25/1982
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I played bass with The New World for a Bar Mitzvah where Lionel Hampton was a guest. He also sat in with the band.
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05/17/1983
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I played bass with The New World for a party for the Bulgarian Pink Islands.
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01/07/1984
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I played bass on a New World gig with Lari White.
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03/17/1984
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I played bass on a New World gig with Lari White.
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09/08/1984
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I played bass on two New World gigs with Lari White.
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10/27/1984
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I played bass on a New World gig with Lari White.
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07/10/1985
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I started a new job as Music Engraver for Columbia Pictures Publications, which later became known as CPP/Belwin, then Warner Bros. Publications) and is now part of Alfred Publishing.
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03/15/1986
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I did my first gig with Galaxy, playing bass at the Sheraton River House.
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04/11/1986
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First night at the Upstairs Downtairs Lounge at the Doral Beach Hotel with Galaxy featuring Elvy Rose.
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06/25/1986
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I played bass for a show with Galaxy at the Parallel Bar which featured Little Anthony & The Imperials.
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07/02/1986
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I played bass for a show with Galaxy at the Parallel Bar which featured The Tokens.
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07/16/1986
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I played bass for a show with Galaxy at the Parallel Bar which featured The Marvelletes.
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09/07/1989
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I wrote the first of 30 sheet music arrangements for a music book by The Turtles. This freelance project was the first large arranging project that I did for CPP/Belwin (now known as Warner Bros. Publications).
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09/28/1990
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I wrote the first of 5 sheet music arrangements for songs from the “Put Yourself In My Shoes" CD by Clint Black.
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03/21/1991
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My “Star Track” MIDI sequencing software makes its debut with Galaxy at the Lago Mar Country Club.
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07/20/1992
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I wrote the first of 9 sheet music arrangements for songs from the "Good Stuff" CD by the B-52’s.
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06/1993
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I wrote sheet music arrangements for two songs from the “Mi Tierra” CD by Gloria Estefan.
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1994
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I worked on the production of The World’s Greatest Fakebook, a project that took over a year to complete!
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03/21/1995
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I wrote my first arrangement with “MusicStar”, a music notation computer program that I developed myself.
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07/13/1995
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I wrote the original sheet music arrangement edition of the song Macarena by Los del Rio.
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09/1995
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I received an award from Sandy Feldstein, who was the president of Warner Bros. Publications at the time.
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11/09/1995
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I wrote “You’ll See”, the first of two sheet music arrangements from the “Something To Remember” CD by Madonna.
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09/12/1996
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I wrote the original sheet music arrangement edition of the song “One Clear Voice” by Peter Cetera.
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12/13/1996
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My “Live” MIDI sequencing software makes its debut with Galaxy at the Dadeland Marriott.
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02/08/1997
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My “CyberGig” MIDI sequencing software makes its debut with Galaxy at the Westin Resort in Miami Beach.
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03/15/1997
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I played drums with Galaxy at the Indian Creek Country Club and saw and spoke to Don Shula.
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05/14/1997
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I wrote the first of 10 sheet music arrangements from the “Dancin’ on the Boulevard” CD by Alabama with my “Visual Music for Windows” music notation software, a complex computer program that I developed myself.
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01/13/1998
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First gig with Steven Chase Orchestras at the Crown Plaza Hotel.
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06/17/1998
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First gig with the S.O.S. Band at Club S.O.S.
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09/19/1998
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First concert playing keyboards with Lyons at the Knights of Colombus with Felix Pastorius on bass and Bobby Thomas Jr. on drums.
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1999
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Record gig year for me with a total of 101 music performances!
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01/23/1999
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I played keyboards at the Taste of the Grove concert with Lyons.
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01/23/1999
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I played the trombone with Steven Chase Orchestras across from Barry Gibb who did a Tribute to Frank Sinatra.
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01/13/2000
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I developed a music web site for Galaxy at www.GalaxyOrchestras.com.
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03/26/2000
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I played keyboards for the “Walk to Cure Diabetes” concert with Lyons at the Miami MetroZoo.
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11/15/2000
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I developed this music web site at www.MusicGeorge.com to promote my music talents.
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04/14/2001
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I did my first solo gig at Sundowners in Key Largo.
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05/07/2001
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I developed a music web site for Gerry Coe at www.GerryCoe.com.
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10/05/2001
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I did my first gig for Miami Music Entertainment on the Caprice Yacht.
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06/02/2002
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I went to see Chicago in concert at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale.
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11/02/2002
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First Galaxy gig with my “CyberGig” MIDI sequencing software in conjunction with 14.1-inch Flat-Panel LCD color monitors (instead of the 9-inch Super VGA monochrome CRTs that were used before) at the Sonesta Beach Resort.
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04/01/2004
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My “MIDI Gig” sequencing software makes its debut with Galaxy at the Trump International Sonesta Beach Resort.
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07/28/2004
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I went to see Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire in concert at the Sound Advice Amphitheater in West Palm Beach.
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01/05/2005
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I purchased a gold Fender Squier Strat electric guitar, a Marshall MG15CDR amplifier and a DigiTech RP200A effects pedal.
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01/24/2005
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I purchased a Tama SwingStar drum set.
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06/25/2005
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I flew all the way from South Florida to Chicago to see Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire in concert at the Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island.
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08/12/2005
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Over 100,000 hits on this website as of this date!
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08/12/2005
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I went to see Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire in concert at the Sound Advice Amphitheater in West Palm Beach.
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03/24/2006
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I did my first gig playing keyboards with Rock Away at Hooligan’s Pub & Oyster Bar.
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07/12/2006
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I went to see Chicago and Huey Lewis & The News in concert at the Sound Advice Amphitheater in West Palm Beach.
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09/29/2006
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I attended the gala for the underprivileged children in Bulgaria, which was held at the Hôtel de Paris in Monte-Carlo and hosted by none other than Sylvie Vartan, my favorite singer!
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11/2006
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I purchased a Korg X50 music synthesizer from Guitar Center.
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03/10/2007
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I did my first gig playing keyboards with the Playback classic rock band at The Bar in Coral Gables.
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06/08/2007
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I did my first gig playing keyboards with the Paco Band at JohnMartin’s Restaurant and Irish Pub in Coral Gables.
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06/16/2007
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I did my first gig playing keyboards with Cool Breeze at the Sombrero Country Club in Marathon.
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08/05/2007
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Over 200,000 hits on this website as of this date!
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08/14/2007
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I completed a translation project (from English to French) on two Suzuki violin books for Alfred Publishing.
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09/15/2007
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I purchased a jewel blue Ibanez IJXB190 electric bass guitar from Guitar Center.
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09/15/2007
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I did my first gig playing bass with Almost Blue at the Scrap Bar and Smokehouse in Miami Beach.
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04/02/2008
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Over 300,000 hits on this website as of this date!
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10/02/2008
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I acquired the MakeMusic Finale 2008 Music Composing & Notation Software
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10/25/2008
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Over 400,000 hits on this website as of this date!
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11/03/2008
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On this date, I had 100 friends on You Tube. Also, as of this date, all 20 of the videos that I uploaded on You Tube have 5-star ratings, certainly quite an accomplishment!
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11/22/2008
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I completed 18 songs for the Volume 1 of the George Gershwin personality book for Alfred Music Publishing.
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12/23/2008
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I completed 8 songs for the Volume 2 of the George Gershwin personality book for Alfred Music Publishing.
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08/01/2009
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Over 500,000 hits on this website as of this date!
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