Singer-songwriter Father Time interviewed

Please tell me a bit about your songs and history as a singer-songwriter and musician.
In my childhood I started with drums, then piano, til I found electric guitar which I love. I have written maybe 1000 quality songs (well quality, in my opinion :) ). To me songwriting is the crux of the issue, I focus on it very much in my own listening to the world of music. My specialties are harmonies, lyrics, and guitar solos.
I did a CD collabing with many talented artists called With A Little Help From My Peeps. Right now I'm in a band with Jill Wright called Coloured Vinyl which has made a bit of a mark, I think.
I had a sizeable following at mp3.com, a lot of number 1 songs and I'm on many many internet stations now. The bulk of my music you can find at http://iacmusic.com/thelastrockhope.

Who are some of your main influences and musical mentors?
People compare me to Neil Young often, and that makes sense because he's my favorite artist other than the Beatles. I also love Nirvana, Jim Carroll, Jefferson Airplane, CSNY, the Stones, Who, Hendrix, Floyd and the Sex Pistols. Oh and can't forget Led Zep which to me are right up there with the Beatles.
What projects are you working on currently?
Jilly and I are writing songs for the next Coloured Vinyl record. We just started a new forum/bbs called Artist Isles - http://inmusic.yuku.com - which has a lot of potential because I have come to know a lot of creative people over the years at all these music sites, including being focused on the artist community at IAC.
Please, everybody that reads this, come by Artist Isles, there is a chemistry that's happening and that will go deeper as all these great artists from different realms meet one another !

I understand that you are very interested in UFOs so please say a bit about your involvement with ufology.
I own probably one of the largest UFO libraries in the US. For a long time I was obsessed with them because I've had more experiences of high strangeness than I could tell in several books, I suppose.
For 5 years of my life, going on a couple decades ago, it seems the aliens took a huge interest in me. I believe they operate mostly during a person's sleep, in the REM state. However I've had many realtime awake occurances as well. I also feel there is some connection with government mind control operations though I'm not certain to what extent.
My 5 years of heavy involvement ended when I took a spontaneous trip to Dulce NM to contact the aliens in person and on the outskirts of that city, had a dream that they were removing my implant. Since that my interest has not been quite the same, I think, by their design.

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  lush harmonies, great lead guitar work, great songwriting, amazing variety of styles, fine singing, vocals