Hi; Pete here ! If you've read any updates from me before, skip down to the *******.    I am a senior (B.1947) medically disabled songwriter, unable to travel or perform live, and long past any career aspirations. However, I have written many songs (WELL over 850 in several genres) and feel that a few of them deserve the opportunity to be considered.    The reason that I mention that I am medically disabled is that my condition stopped me from being able to travel, perform live or use professional recording studios to do my songs, so I had to do them here, at home, in my basement, on old, donated equipment from musicians I used to work with. I did the best I could with what I had (I played all the instruments and sang all the male vocal parts) ... not professional quality, but the songs come across, I think. Unfortunately, I have been diagnosed with early onset Myeloma (Bone Marrow Cancer), and combined with a couple of other health issues (not the least of which was the effects of an accident that resulted in severe Cervical Spinal Stenosis and a concussion) I am now unable to do any more recording (or even playing) and am concentrating on trying to get my songs heard. That task also helps a great deal in keeping me thinking positively (more or less).... ******* Healthwise, things are more or less stable ... my Oncologist told me to "keep doing whatever it is you are doing" ... so I take that as a positive. I've found quite a number more of OLD songs of mine that were stuck in a box in the storeroom. Old reel-to-reel tapes of songs, that is. If you don't know what reel-to-reel means, just google it, please. It would take me too long to explain. But the songs were done roughly (so I'd remember them) and the quality of both the sound and my performances leave something to be desired. I've only got just over a hundred songs of mine online, which means there are about 1900 (one thousand nine hundred) that aren't there. A lot of the early ones are crap, part of the learning process of both songwriting and home recording. Over the years, I have written in several genres (no symphonies or rap, though), mainly because I would follow whatever the direction the song took me when it surfaced. I have always thought that I discovered songs, as opposed to creating them. When it would "bob up" in the sea of music, I'd swim over, climb aboard and go on what I always hoped would be a tuneful adventure. Needless to say, not all destinations were satisfying. I found a tape with the idea for an album that I "constructed" in the mid 1970's (yeah, I'm old, remember ?). It was something that could not possibly be done back then, because it was about 40 minutes long, and non-stop. Songs tied together by a musical narrative that told a story about hitch-hiking across Canada, from the Pacific to the Atlantic. It wasn't until CD's came along that it would have been possible to do, but by then my health situation (SCH ... Severe Chemical Hypersensitivities) had taken over my life, and my studio recording days and stage performance days were over. I did take a few of the songs from that album idea (it was to be called "Summer Diary") and home record them here at home in the 1990's and early 2000's. I shall end this note with a link to one of them, inspired by my first impressions upon encountering the Rocky Mountains. I hope you are staying safe and doing your utmost to keep those around you safe as well. m.a.s.k. Here's where the song is: "Way Up High": http://youtu.be/XZ8eZ_KJw3o Take care, and keep smiling. Musically Your Friend, Pete {:-)