The Lunacy Of Today As a child living with my parents and siblings, our house was filled with art and music. It was there that I watched, in awe, The Beatles play on The Ed Sullivan Show. That one TV show changed my life forever. Music became my passion. My first love was the drums. At the age of twelve, I joined my first band as the drummer. A year later I learned to play the guitar and the bass. I have been playing and composing music for most of my life. Recently I got the idea of rearranging some of my song lyrics into poems and along with new poems and essays I introduce you to my book, "Dreams, Poems, and Other Things.