In 1973, after seven years as a professional musician with Buckley, he decided to pursue his long-time dream of becoming a writer. He combined his love of music and words by writing about music and musicians.
During this phase of his life, he listened to virtually every generic style and hundreds of musicians, including Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, Jan Hammer, Keith Jarrett, Joe Pass, McCoy Tyner; the Ohio Players, Ike and Tina Turner, the Isley Brothers, Al Green; Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Mickey Newbury; Beethoven, Bach, Khachaturian, Chopin, Tchaikovsky.
His articles, interviews and reviews appeared in dozens of periodicals, including Down Beat (West Coast Editor, 1975-1981), the LA Weekly, Billboard, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Pulse, Jazz Forum, LA Free Press, Players, Coda.
Jazz and pop musics led to spacemusics rooted in meditation and world cultures. Beginning in the late '70s, expanding his psyche and his soul, he wrote for Body/Mind/Spirit, New Realities, New Age Journal, and many other publications dedicated to psycho-spiritual evolution and higher-consciousness.
Listening: Henry Wolff, David Parsons, Paul Winter, Chaitanya Hari Deuter, Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny, Michael Stearns, Peter Michael Hamel, Terry Riley, Harold Budd, Brian Eno. Reading: Fritjoff Capra, Marilyn Ferguson, Dane Rudhyar, Alvin Toffler.
He co-authored flutist Paul Horn's autobiography, Inside Paul Horn (HarperCollins, 1990), and in 1991 received the Crystal Award for Music Journalism at the New Age Music Convention in Hollywood.
He also recorded a solo acoustic guitar tape entitled California Sigh, featuring synthesists Steve Roach and Kevin Braheny and pedal steel guitarist Chaz Smith.
