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$10.00
Plus shipping costs, as described below.
And ... In the spirit and recognition of the wishes of J.M. Barrie,
author of 'Peter Pan', who willed all copyrights to the play and story to the
Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in England in 1929,
20% of every purchase will be donated to both the hospital and local US kids charities
at year's end, along with all other website donations!
To simplify shipping, please add $2.00/CD for first class or priority mail,
anywhere in the USA or Canada, and for all others outside the US please add $5.00.
Any unused extra will be added to the year end charitable donations.
Please email me for any special handling, rush deliveries, or special mailing considerations.
Payment can be made via PayPal at the link below, or you can send a Check or Money Order to me,
Randy Constan, at the PO box address.
BONUS: All purchases will entitle the buyer to a
10% discount on any item in the Donations Section.
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* * * ~~ Reviews! ~~ * * *
 What some of Peter's friends have to say about the new CD!
It is Friday night about 1:00am. I was just listening to some of your songs and I felt I had to write you and tell you that "Hold On" is a masterpiece. Everything about this song just moves me the right way...the words, the music, everything is just right. I just thought I would pass that along.... There is a common thread that runs through your writing, the only way I can describe it is Honesty. Yes, that's it. Honesty. ... Rodney Miles
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Truly, Randy Constan, is a musician who has great talent to successfully compose, sing, and play music of many genres. Not locked into one sound, Randy takes us many places with his lyrics, instrumentation, composition and voice…never boring…deeply thoughtful…extremely playful…Thanks Peter! I can hardly wait to receive your CD! ... Amelia Davis
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I am soooo excited!...Randy's Peter Pan Cd should be ready sometime next month!!!...everyone's going to love it!...it's got a great mix of light-and-lively and very deep songs on it...makes me want to pixy-dance already!! ...This has been a true labor of love for him...he's spent countless hours refining and re-refining all of it!...His efforts have not been in vain...this truly is an incredible music experience, you'll be blessed in hearing it...and best of all, you'll be helping children when you buy a copy! ... Adrienne McClain
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More of Peter Pan's Music!
Few things make us see how much we all have in common as well as our music and our art!
(The Rest of the Story!)
As both a guitarist and an inventor, well acquainted with computers, music and electronics, I've experimented with recording since the days of reel to reel tape decks, and have watched the development of software based music sequencers and "MIDI" since the days of ATARI computers! But despite the surge in technology, it is only recently that high quality equipment and music software have become affordable on some level, to everyone. Now, even a weekend warrior musician can turn their songs and recordings into polished works and turn out high quality music, if they are willing to invest the time!
Indeed, the first version of the 'Mercy For Madness' song was done back in the 80s using an inexpensive 'Casio' keyboards, an 8 bit ATARI computer, guitars, and several stand alone tape recorders. I finally converted the 'cassette' tape version to MP3 format to put up on the web site in 2001!. And as an aside, even though the current version has been completely re-done, I still imported some of the original lead guitar into latest version, to preserve what had become a 'classic' background to me. But the point is, things have really come a long way!
But new technologies create new problems! One of the things I wrestled with on and on, ad infinitum, was that learning to record, mix, and master, is just about as complex as learning to play an instrument well! So aside from having to compose for instruments I normally don't play, I was constantly re-recording and re-mixing as I learned more about how this is done, and what I'd done wrong on the previous attempt. It was a never ending and frustrating circle of learning more, re-doing, mixing again, sometimes re-recording tracks, on and on and on, until I had gotten a full year behind meeting my own completion goals! I was originally determined to get this CD done in late summer of 2004, followed by an absolute (and broken) promise of completion by Christmas of that year. This was the main reason you've not seen many site updates or photos of new costumes, etc. this year. Though I knew there would never be a magic point of perfection, I was determined to get everything the very best I could, and get this CD project done!!! Now that is it, I'll be updating other things again!
And now, for some Jazz!Because of my jazz influence, many of the songs on the CD actually are fairly harmonically complex, despite the fact that their styles are all pretty contemporary (if not retro, rock, acoustic, or 'techno'). But I also enjoy playing Jazz, and particularly the older jazz from the swing era, and the days of great players like Charlie Parker (Bird!), Oscar Peterson, Wes Montgomery, Johnny Smith, and many others. I would have put a few of these tunes on the CD, but decided against. While the technology exists for me to make a recording with a full band even without having one, the lack of real interaction between musicians just doesn't work in that kind of jazz. So I've made some of my guitar ramblings on these songs available for free download below. As with the CD samples, Flash players are provided for eas of listening, but they can also be downloaded in MP3 format (if you have the patience). I've included the approximate size of each file in megabytes because even with a fast internet connection, these files do take time to download. If you like this music (or the CD music) and you're a musician local to Tampa, feel free to contact me via email if you'd be interested in a jam.
By the way, I've also included a few songs done with my friend Bob on Sax, from our former Just Friends Jazz combo (see photo below). The songs with Bob have a red * in their links. Jazz is not static, and so I may add and remove from this section at any time. So remember to save anything you like on your own system.
~~~~~ So Here are some Old and Newer Jazz Standards I like to Play ~~~~~
Just Friends Jazz band
I mentioned that I used to perform with my friend Bob Wolf on Sax, in a group we called 'Just Friend's Jazz'. The name is taken from the traditional Jazz song 'Just Friends', and signifies an open invitation for anyone to join in the jam. Moonlight in Vermont is really nice.
~~~~~ Some Songs With Bob on Sax ~~~~~
~~~~~ And on a sad note ~~~~~
Tribute to Charlie Forschner, a fine drummer and friend
A few years back, I was saddened to learn of the passing of Charlie Forschner, a friend from times past in New York. Charlie was a very creative drummer, a wonderful person with an unbeatable sense of humor, and the news of his demise was quite a shock. My heart and condolences still go out to his wife and children. Many of our jams went on for much longer than I could ever put in an mp3 file, but here are a few songs with Charlie at the drums. My friend Fred Talman and I are on guitar, and the bass player is Bob Blyman. These recordings are from around 1985 and a bit old and distorted. But the memory of our good times together will never be so.
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their inner child and know that they are who their creator made them to be. I've always strived to demonstrate the joy and freedom that awaits, just by being our 'silly' selves, and the rest as they say, is history. 
Since 2001, the site has also raised thousands for kids charities, in the spirit of the original author's (J.M. Barrie) desires. A portion of your CD purchase will be donated as well!
) Other songs offer spiritual encouragement, and all encourage faith, hope, trust, (and of course... some Pixie Dust!), in what often seems to be some very dark times. The last song, "Who is Peter Pan", sums up the message I believe I've been given to share with everyone, world wide. 
