I was on a family trip to Reno at age 16 when I walked into a record store and grabbed Bob Dylan's first album. That was in March 1962, and from that point on I was hooked. All Brubeck's Time Series, Sandy Bull, Meet the Beatles forward, early Stones, The Swingle Singers, Gregorian Chants, Bach Fugues, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Dark Side: This was the music of my youth. Yeah it was all cool and groovy, but I missed out on so much more. Prior to the compilation album, every record released was a work of art in itself. It was a snapshot in time of the artist's career, and represented the best effort of numerous supporting people. In and out of the recording studio, other performers, engineers, graphic artists, managers, producers and capital all had to perform as a team at a sufficiently high level to create a hit record.

I am a fan, not a musician. I will never know all I would like about music that was part of my era. Much passed me by due to circumstances of opportunity, or exposure or evolving taste. My curious nature now leads me to Wikipedia, YouTube, official and unofficial sites, and other online sources, but rather than feeling search-satisfied I only experience a little joy and then get lost and frustrated in a tangle of hyperlinks. What I need is a comprehensive format by which I can effectively and efficiently learn about the 5W+H of a particular record, set out in a way that informs and entertains me. A format that I can explore like one reads a book, but allows me to skip past the parts of little interest, and delve deeper into the aspects of the record I appreciate and enjoy. A standard format that works well for every genre. That way I can readily learn important details about bands and music I missed out on altogether: most of the turf between Aerosmith and Zappa.

Obviously a record is far more than a collection of tones and rhythms. So beyond the recorded sound there is terrain of great interest to passionate fans, or curious proto-fans like me. This is territory I would like to explore at my own pace according to my specific interests: session and production notes, drama and anecdotes from the studio, who plays what on which track, what the lyrics are and what they mean, who the key people are and what were their careers like before the record, where the record fits into the timeline of it's genre, and what about the album cover and artistic choices surrounding it? What were the challenges and how were they overcome? Just how did they get that sound? Stuff like that.

So I created the Musicurious Format, structuring information for comprehension and accessibility in a way that gives me what I want: high value for time spent, in a logical environment. The Musicurious Product is a lucid exposition of all points of interest about the album, made for a multi-touch device or desktop computer. Besides overall elegant design, the core innovation is based on Adams "Mix Animation", a real-time visual rendering of the music showing the instruments and performers in a useful depiction, allowing for individual track muting or soloing by me, the user/fan. This multi-track control feature produces insight into the multi-track recording and promotes far greater appreciation of individual performances within the piece of music, showing how each contributes to the whole. Using Musicurious Format I can now appreciate music from the inside out, and I still can't even read or write a note of it! And I have ready access to all forms of backstory information relating to the record; text, audio, or multi-media with just a mouse click or finger tap. I'm happy.

Well I am done with this as a hobby interest, and want to make it REAL for the millions of fans that feel like I do. Roger, you saw the amimated mix element of this in your dressing room at the concert at Moes Alley in 2007. I am sure you remember meeting Everest. Will it make money? Are there millions of fans like me that want a better connection with music of their era? Are there Record Companies that are sitting on rich catalogues of recorded music that has already been pirated, and would profit from a comprehensive re-issue format that follows the Box Set in the product lineup? Roger, please get in touch, and let's shake up the Record Business together.

Van Morrison Moondance. realized you don't have to rock your brains out to get the message across.

NRPS. I cannot tell you how much this one meant to me.

Old and In the Way. First time I got bluegrass. Became a huge fan ever since.

Leftover Salmon: Ask The Fish. There would be life after Jerry.

Blood On The tracks: those songs stills end chills down my spine every time I play it. "One More Cup of coffee for the road......."

Revolver, The Beatles: I remember listening to that one thinking WTF is this about? First time I realized literacy in Rock and roll...That got me into poetry and the craft of writing, no more "Love, love me do", it was "I Crawled off to sleep in the bath".....

Born to Run/ Darkness on the Edge of Town. Songs about me, my life and what I was going through then in 1975-1980.

Pink Floyd: Darkness. What can I say. Perfection.

Steely Dan, Aja. Not that I like it (far from it) but I have found that people that love this album are people I don't like to hang around. Kind of the canary in the coal mine of recordings as far as "hip"/"not hip" are concerned.

John Coltrane: my Favorite Things. First heard this one at Dead show during the break and it flipped my 17 year old ears out. I knew the song, but never heard anyone do that before with it. DING DING DING, I got jazz or at least started to get jazz.

Imagine: John Lennon. This one defined my politics. Transcendent album, and you knew why The Beatles broke up after this one. John wanted to change the world through music and I am not sure that Paul wanted to go along with such heavy topics.

Woodstock: yep, I played the crap out of this one. Spent most of my High School time playing this one over and over again. Even started a Jock/head riot in school, due to the hippies (me) playing the album so much..... Not to mention that the Wavy Gravy comments are hilarious!