As the owner of EQ Recording Studio, I often get asked what inspired me to start my own business. To explain that, I have to go back to the beginning. When I was a teenager (1965), I played guitar for several local bands. My first experience in a recording studio was with a hard rock band called Joshua. The engineer there took a great interest in my guitar playing, and one day, during one of our sessions, a band next door needed a guitar player. The engineer asked if I would be interested in recording a couple of tracks for them. The band was REO Speedwagon. Being young and unaware of who they were or whether the engineer was telling the truth, I agreed to record a few dummy tracks. These tracks were meant to be temporary, as their regular guitar player would replace them on his return from vacation. This experience led to many other projects as a studio musician and opened many doors for me to record in major record companies' studios. Eventually, I was offered a position in a recording school program in Hollywood. Years later, after closing the Ambassador of Arts gallery and selling my home in Bellflower, I moved to Long Beach, CA. With the initial goal of producing an audio CD book for my stage play, “Flowers For Beth,” This sparked the idea of creating a home-based recording studio. That's how it all came to fruition. Throughout the years, after several upgrades, my journey as a recording engineer truly began. I was also one of the first to operate a 16-track studio without a physical mixing board. In addition to recording local bands in my studio, I was frequently hired by bands to work at other major recording studios as their engineer, including Westlake L.A. Recording Studio, S.I.R., Paramount, IRS Records, Capitol Records, Silver Lake Recordings, and more. My 25 years in recording kept me exceptionally busy. People often ask why I decided to retire. The answer is simple: I had enough of the unpredictable mental circus stemming from musicians' egos, entitlement, and their ignorance of the recording process.