Album Notes

Richard always had an interest in music. He started his musical career when he was but six years old. He studied classical piano at The New England Conservatory Prep, Wellesley, MA and from there developed an interest in guitar. His first guitar was an old acoustic special given as a Christmas present from his mother. Of course, he broke all the strings while attempting to tune it to various pop songs back in 1967. He was much interested in The Monkees, The Beatles and other readily available LPs at the time.

He bought his first electric guitar from a friend while in junior high school and adeptly plugged it into an old tube tape recorder, using it as an amplifier. From there, he purchased Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells LP and developed an interest in multi-track recording. He also found a distinct liking to Deep Purple's Machine Head and Jethro Tull's Aqualung. Each of these albums featured influential guitarists, Ritchie Blackmore and Martin Barre, respectively.

Richard put together his first band after being influenced by a local hometown band, Sufferin' Blye. His first band was Ace High, and they covered songs from the pop artists of the time, i.e., 1973 - 1979 including, Deep Purple, BTO, The Beatles, Steve Miller, Boston, Bad Company and many more.

Richard attended Northeastern University where he received his B.S. degree in Journalism. He kept on plugging with his original act, Tiger Rose featuring various talents including Larry Grab of Grab Brothers Band fame. Tiger rose performed dutifully at various Boston night clubs eventually earning the Saturday night spot at the long gone Jack's, Cambridge, Mass. Tiger Rose started as a hard rock oriented outfit and progressed to a more pop/keyboard laden sound, which was popular through the 1980s.

When Tiger Rose split in 1985, he eventually reunited with Larry Grab in his new band, Napaj. That band featured Grab's brother Marc on guitar with Richard taking on the keyboard, bass and additional guitar roles that the band required. Napaj enjoyed success with a four song EP entitled "Child". Additional recordings included "Coming and Going", "The Toy", "Keeping Up With Changes" and "Finer Than Diamonds".

Richard married in 1991 and moved with his new wife and son to Boise, Idaho where he discovered the open mike night at Tom Grainey's. His new found friends included Rebecca Scott. She invited him to join the band filling in for the late Vicki Stagi as guitarist, keyboardist and bass. Richard also created a wonderful cover song band called Key 36 which featured material from the 60s through the 90s.

When Richard's marriage ended, he returned to his native Boston, where he reunited with the Grab Brothers producing a series of CDs including "Acoustical Bookends", "Grab It", "Grab This", and "Everybody Wants". Each of these projects are available on CD Baby.

Richard has also worked with Lourdes Pita and Tim Drumheller. The latest effort featured here is a culmination of his years of work as a sideman and composing force with The Grab Brothers.

Rich Goldin, 2007

CD Poetry

I have known you since the beginning of time. My life is but an instant. You provided love within a drop of water, and now that drop has gone. I will fade into God's Garden as the years quickly wind down to a frozen crawl. I know God's garden must be beautiful.