Ted Quinn is an outsider musician who has produced a large amount of work with no official sponsorship for thirty years. As a child, Teddy Quinn was among the last of the contract players in Hollywood, appearing in a surreal, photographed word, television, films from the age of three to thirteen with Orson Welles and Doris Day. His Laurel Canyon 'experience,' hitch-hiking from Mulholland Drive to Sunset Boulevard and back, with the obligatory stop at the Canyon Country Store, encountering Cheshire figures Flo and Eddie, a chauffered philosopher Frank Zappa, a scolding Tina Turner, turned him away from the illusion of cinematic stage lights and toward the orange sunshine of the Ladies of the Canyon, the Blues of the black light, where a Houdini on a 5 horsepower mini-bike, led to a subterranean chamber of poetry and sensuality. Hand-painted signs for gigs at Madame Wongs, collecting ashes from the blazing eucalyptus trees, declaring possession of the Eighties, before losing it to bullets aimed upon Beatles, Reaganomics. An age of techno beats on unpaved streets, dreaming of Pettus Bridge, and the Great Washout to the sunbleached California desert.

Today, Quinn has hosted thousands of performers, written & recorded hundreds of songs, run a legendary recording studio, webcast a free speech internet radio program, organized events for peace, for victims of Katrina, for the under-funded arts in a small community, in Joshua Tree, an outpost of the New Bohemia, where he now sits as the Music Chair of the local Arts Council, singing in roadhouse diners, Beatnik Cafes, blak box theatres, sweat lodges, saloons, galleries and homes for the severely handicapped.

The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen and renew your purpose.