Hey folks,
Here I is! Been on the planet in this form for the last 42 years. Born and raised in Central Michigan and got to go with my older sisters and brothers to plenty of concerts featuring bands like The Frost, Amboy Dukes, Bob Seger, Third Power, Frigid Pink, Mike Quatro, Terry Knight & the Pack, MC5 and The Stooges. Hooked myself on Heep from their first release and never lost my love for the band.

I have been widowed for the last couple of years and I am working on springing my offspring on the world, (15, 16, & 21).

As a musician, I started with piano at age 8, moved to guitar at 10, bass at 12, drums at 14, cello and string bass at 15, banjo at 20, rediscovered keyboards at 30, and I am presently learning to play the sitar. My main instruments are guitar and bass, (I have a motley army of them), but I keep drums and what is possibly one of the ugliest, (but still killer sounding), Hammond B3's in existence, ready to go in my studio.

To make money I design, build, troubleshoot, and teach people to operate voice and data communications networks. In other incarnations I have worked with concert sound and lighting companies, repaired consumer electronics equipment, and supervised an electrical supply warehouse.

For my sanity, (if you can call it that), I write and record music, produce talented musician's original work, attempt to keep track of my kid's activities, repair and modify guitars and effects, tinker with all sorts of stuff, and have been known to sing and play lead guitar & keyboards with a southern New Hampshire band called "The Rogues".

Recently, Alex Gitlin and I have begun collaborating on original songs as an outlet for all of our ideas that don't fit into either of our bands.

I have been asked where I find the time to do all of these things.I don't, the time finds me.

Curt Cornell
curtec@juno.com