I began playing bass in a blues band where we in the early 1970's played Taj Mahal, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and other great blues heros. By th emid-1970's, I switched to guitar and during the 1970's was into a number of bands initially playing Jethro Tull-type music. Inspired by The Grateful Dead, I formed a band called Oak which played 4 Psish-type gigs each involving 20 plus minutes rock jams. I learnt to play flute, piano and sax as well as lead guitar. I spent 6 weeks at the Creative Music school in Woodstock run by Karl Berger. There I met and played with Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton and Mike Manieri. My conversion to fusion jazz had been underway for some time after hearing early Weather Report, Herbie Hancock and of course B**ches Brew and Live Evil from the amazing Miles Davis bands of that era. I wrote my first album Yaraandoo based on an Aboriginal legend in the mid-1970's. Rolling Stone magazine gave it a great review. Many people have written to me saying it is a masterpiece of inner space, fusion music. I took a break from music during the 1980's and 1990's. Since early 2000's, I returned to play9ing finding the break had improved my playing and compositional ideas. SInce then I have recorded an album per year including a re-recording of Yaraandoo. I will make all these albums available over the next few months. I have always been inspired by an interview I read with Elvin Jones one of, if not he best, drummers ever. Asked by the reporter why he had played so well to an obviously uninterested audience he replied "One cat was iistening, that is enough". To touch even one other person with my music in enough for me. www.robthpmsettguitarist.com