(Jan, 2006) - I live in a small village called Aultbea on the NW coast of Scotland UK. I'm a retired aircraft and mechanical engineer who spent 16 years in the Royal Air Force. That's where I acquired the name "Spike" due to a stupid haircut I once had. After the Air Force, I was an inspector in the nuclear industry from which I took early retirement 13 years ago.

Musical Background - A music teacher gave up trying to teach me to read music when I was 10 after my parents thought they were wasting their money, but at 14 I bought a guitar and taught myself to play it (after a fashion). At that time, I was in the same class at school as John Lennon and played guitar with him on a number of occasions but parents decided that qualifications were more important than this guitar playing. However after joining the RAF as an apprentice, I played the guitar in many groups which were abundant in the early 60's. This lasted until I was 33 when a smooth talking salesman sold me a Hammond Phoenix (it looked easy when he played it) and I then taught myself to play it (again after a fashion). Traded it in eventually for a Technics U90 as I seemed to be improving. Played a Hammond B300 and a Roland JX3P synth plus Roland drum machine in a few clubs in the NW of England as background music and backing artists which was somewhat restricted by not being able to read music.

After retiring and moving to Scotland from where the family originated, I bought the PSR2000 as the organ took up too much space. Music became my major pastime, especially since joining the various forums. I also have a Korg N5ex synth. My time is now divided between making decorative wrought iron and composing/playing music - the main influences being The Shadows / Jarre/Country and the 60's.

Spike's MIDI Songs

Spike provided 80 songs in midi format. These were created on the PSR-2000 (2k). Individual songs are shown in the table below and any one song can be downloaded by right-clicking on the song link. The table displays the song title, tempo (T), time signature (TS), lyrics (L), chords (C), where possible, the style used, the original volume (V), and the keyboard used (K). You can download all of Spike's 80 MIDI songs here: SP-2k.zip.

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