Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area I always enjoyed-and still do-playing in bands with bass, drums, piano, horns, vocals and even big bands, but I also spent a lot of time practicing and performing solo guitar, not really knowing that this would have a huge impact on my musical future. There is an immense pleasure and yet a never ending challenge in creating a solo guitar arrangement of a song so that it may contain as many elements as is heard in a full band or orchestra, while still having the music flow freely. This is my latest work and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoy playing it...just thinkin' out loud. Mark Holzinger 2005