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b'When it comes to the music business, Mark Proct is a lifer. He\\u2019s not a star,\\xa0but he is one of those people essential to stars a journeyman working behind the\\xa0scenes who helps to make what happens onstage under the lights possible.\\xa0A music industry professional in Austin, TX since 1975, Proct has labored in an array of\\xa0showbiz infrastructure jobs, from driving tour buses to running sound, running his own lighting\\xa0company and tour coach businesses and working as an artists\\u2019 manager. In the process, he not only\\xa0helped further the careers of employers and clients, he played a pivotal role in the growth of Austin\\xa0into a world-renowned hub for music and musical creativity.\\xa0In those roles, and others, Proct has been present at pivotal moments in the careers of Stevie\\xa0Ray Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the arc angels, Storyville, Vallejo, and others.\\xa0A tireless amateur photographer, Proct was seldom without his camera, even as the music\\xa0business took him and his musical compadres across the country and around the world.\\xa0Now, after a lifetime of being behind the scenes, Proct is stepping out as the author of Home\\xa0Today, Gone Tomorrow, a collection of rare, behind-the-scenes candid moments captured, as it were,\\xa0on the run.\\xa0These are not the glamor shots of carefully posed, manicured stars. Rather they are moments\\xa0captured\\u2014backstage, in hotels, in recording studios, on city streets, behind the scenes. \\xa0It\\u2019s Proct\\u2019s gift that he was not only present in the moment, but had\\xa0the presence of mind to capture it for the rest of us. Home Today, Gone Tomorrow not only catches\\xa0musicians at pivotal moments in their lives, it also tells a larger story of the city of Austin, and its\\xa0transformation from a sleepy college town to an international hub for music.'