What can I say about music but that if it wasn't for my choice to write (and later publish) stories, music would have been my other way to go.  I had a voice, I had stage presence, I practiced endlessly at the piano and at the points in my life I didn't have one I would practice at junior colleges or local churches.  In my church days, I spent endless hours writing sheet music for my own songs and orchestrations (most of which are lost just as my old studio audio tapes or video performances, thanks to moving around a lot and relationships!  

I'd send demo tapes to local record producers and after my church life performed in Los Angeles area bars.  I auditioned a few times for lead band vocals.  Hung around with a lot of underground LA bands and lived with some members (Adolescents, The Mentors, Christian Death) but they were only comfortable with Nick the Writer.  

After I moved to Sacramento in the mid-90's, I had a tremendous karaoke bar life and it was cool to me to be able to sit late at night at home and write for awhile, then drive a bunch of blocks away and sing like Jon Bon Jovi for a song or two and get applause, then come back home and write some more.  All in all, though, there was nothing in my life like writing my own songs and performing them in front of hundreds of people like back in the church days....... 

I don't have much to show anymore from my music days, except lots of sheet music and scribbled lyrics and not as much of a voice as I used to have.....