Author: Reflect1

This is the hard bit ,, Well it started 58 years ago for me, born on march 23rd 1964, and as most people do, i came out quiet and quite unassuming until someone hit me, then i screamed! Father:- Nicholas Charles Geary. Mother:- Ann Browning Moore. Well i could go into family history, that would really get quite involved and very complicated soi will avoid that and stick to my worst subject "talking about me" i was a really skinny, small person with ginger hair.. great start on this planet first beaten then i find out i am ginger.. great. so i luckily have grown out of that ginger phase now, but at the time was a bit of a problem and was picked on with regularity. but looking back on those things has probably forge me into someone who chooses friends carefully but in doing so holds those relationships very close to my heart. At an early age music was something i not that great at as my family was very musical.. ei grandma was a grammer school teacher who was great at piano. grandpa played clarinet though i never heard him, but he was more artistic. my brother reached grade 7 violin, my sister grade 5 but i chose to play the cello .. i passed grade 1 music was never really a big thing for me but i have kept it close to me through my life. After i left school i made a few friends one of which had made his own guitar and another that could actually play one, i became more interested at that time in music and started listening to mostly rock music of the 80's and started playing a really crappy brand new guitar my mum and step dad had bought me for xmas.. i played it a lot and found out a way to play it through the record player that i was playing my albums through.(never did get into buying singles). anyway Russ the musical genius of the time said to me one day mark come to barnstaple and we can get a band together.!!! i was always easily led so we formed a band .. we played one gig as "NIGHTMARE" drummer was Mark Hobbs vocals- Martin ----- bass- Mark Lines and Russell Dunham played guitar. As i was adopted when my mum remarried my surname became lines, but when i was 18 i changed it by deed back to my original name that i was given at birth. anyway i had a great time in north devon and found work and also discovered some illicit substances to have some truly memorable experiences. I had become less ginger and though it was only 8 months, it felt like i had progressed a lot and my brain was finally starting to wake up ! hmmm the opposite sex.. lol . i have always got on with the opposite sex really well and now the but... ginger. .lol no i probably just never matured that quickly. well i had a few years away from the music and though i jammed a bit with mates i never really was very comfortable performing and settled for a career to pay bills and create a life.. i trained as a turner and soon used knowledge learned by playing around with the early personal computers ..Nick my mate who made a guitar was always upgrading and i spent time trying to understand what the hell they did!!!.zx80 zx81 commadore vic20 commodore64 acorn atom. i got bored when he started learning forth & C.. anyway i turned my skillz with programming,, anyway somehow i fathered 3 children even if i could never have the bottle to ask anyone out on a date i managed one of each. But i am in a totally different place now as i am not ginger any more and children have their lives and i finally have found a way back to some music, and technology is in place that i can utilise, to produce some music to hopefully give some one pleasure and more inspiration to anyone who wants to engage in its own passion.