This article is 7 years old. This guy sounds like some guys I know. Retire to mess with Band in a Box, Sonar...etc. I never played the piano in a strip club like him, with a sideline of writing C programs and working for a Washington agency, but I did manage a building which ended up with a strip club on the main floor. All kinds of crazy stuff...calls at 4 a.m. for the alarms going off....well no longer. Adieu.. anyway this was a good read:

http://www.drdobbs.com/184405412;jsessionid=EUITIJRMHI3P3QE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN


John Conley
Musica est vita