John,

I have the same problem as the rest of the phone modem folks, but I listened to pieces of most of the songs. You have a good voice and your playing technique is good as well. I like the version of Tears in Heaven. I understand the effect of putting your own spin on the songs and in reality, big groups often do that as well when redoing a great original. Listen to Ray Charles' version of the Beatles Eleanor Rigby or earth Wind and Fire's version of "Got to get You into my life" and I think they applied the same principle

It's tough to do a one shot recording and get it to sound exactly right on a CD, no matter how talented the player is. I don't generally do it, because much of my music does not feature vocals and in that respect each instrument part has to have it's own personality and feel for me to be happy with the work. The downside is I spend a lot of time mixing, remixing, applying individual effects ,setting different levels, and mastering it all at the end, but I'd rather strive to get it exactly as I wish and fortuunately for me I love to tweak anyway.

Although this strays from the topic a little in a way it's connected too. Years ago I was a little hung up on the ( sometimes ) "non musicianship" aspect of it, Today I appreciate the nuances and challenges of creating electronic music. In part maybe the same musicianship skills aren't ALWAYS at the forefront as they are when playing an acoustic piano or an organ, but now having dabbled, I can appreciate that the process of creating and blending sounds and musical intonations ( and sometimes even playing them in real time as opposed to arpeggiating them all ) is an art form of it's own. Putting your own spin on existing music is another part of the artistic process.

Cheers John,

AJ