Notes from the Regular Guy

Toy Soldiers 

In honor of the recent 75th anniversary marking the end of the war in Europe in 1945, I thought it was an appropriate time to release the lyric video for the song, “Toy Soldiers” from my newly released EP, “Starting Over,” which can be found in its entirety by clicking this link: HERE 

I think we often forget that it’s largely kids, barely out of high school, who are sent to faraway lands to fight wars on our behalf. The average age of the young men who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day was twenty…

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Circus 

Circus 

The second single from my EP, "Starting Over."  Wrote this one a while back but finally got around to recording it for this project. I first had the idea when I saw a “little person” on TV who said that he grew up working in a circus and all he ever wanted to do was “run away from it.” After all the years of hearing that old cliché about kids wanting to “run away and JOIN the circus” that really struck me. I think many of us who pursued careers in the entertainment business kind of feel like we DID…

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Starting Over 2020 

I think there’s a “myth” you buy into when you’re young that at some point you’ll have it all figured out. You’ll settle into your life and career and ride off gently into a suburban sunset. But the truth is for most of us the unexpected continuously shows up in the form of job loss, career changes, break ups, divorce, economic crisis, illness or now, unbelievably, a pandemic. You make it through one only to find yourself on the business end of another when you least expect it. Wash, rinse and repeat. 

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