I am a passionate music listener. My favourite music is melodic guitar-oriented pop. This implies that I like a lot of 60's stuff as well as the 80's bands sometimes lumped together under the name of Paisley Underground (link1 / link2):

I also played in several bands myself while I was living in Amsterdam (1982-1992). Two of them worth mentioning are:

"The Exist" and "The Kliek".

I have put together some pages about these bands. See the navigation above.

Home-grown audio

Nowadays, my schedule does not leave room to play in a band unfortunately, but now and then I find a little time to record some music in my home studio.

After switching from a 4-track Fostex recorder to digital recording as soon as it was technically feasible, I tried out several multitrack programs over the years but recently I switched to Apple's Garageband. It may lack some of the high-end features of Pro Tools, but the user interface is very intuitive, the integration of software instruments is a really nice feature and also important: Garageband will not break your bank account!

Below are some results of these sound experiments:

I can really recommend the biography by George Martin called "All You Need Is Ears" for everybody who is interested in the development of the (recording of) popular music during the last 50 years.