I taught myself to play six-string guitar not because I was gifted or anything, I just didn't want anybody to see how terrible I was. I was in the eighth grade and the Beatles were taking over the known world (1964-ish, along with the Who, The Stones [+]I taught myself to play six-string guitar not because I was gifted or anything, I just didn't want anybody to see how terrible I was. I was in the eighth grade and the Beatles were taking over the known world (1964-ish, along with the Who, The Stones and the Kinks, et al, well, Bob Seeger, too). After the pain and blood and all, I could play the six basic chords which is all one needed so I started a band called the Little Chaps. If I thought I was bad alone, together we were God-awful but so was everybody else (that I knew) and as long as we played loudly (pre-1980's standards), all was well. We got to the point when I was in high school where I had a big Twin-12 Silvertone (tube, which doubled as the PA system) amp and a really fine Gibson Firebird (from Grinnells). As the Beatles (and others) music became complex (meaning, I couldn't play it) and females became so interesting (I seemed to be able to play them alright), I put away my band and toys and started working…until I picked back up in 2003 - almost forty years later. The music on this CD is the result. I started writing the original material on September 13, 2001 (Fight For Your Freedom) and started recording in a spare bedroom in my former home in 2003. I was drinking, then, and in the process of loosing my career and wife of twenty-two years along with everything I owned. By September of 2004 I was living with my Dad back on Lincoln Street where I grew up in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. I had little in the way of material possessions but I did hold on to my guitars, computer and microphone. I set up on the landing in the stairwell of Dad's house and started recording again in September, 2005. Why I did this is open for debate - reliving childhood, nothing better to do, avoiding responsibility, just plain loco, delusions of grandeur - but I choose to believe God showed me to it while admitting to suffering with some of the other motivations along the way. I realized that what I was learning in AA (and other sources, such as Castaneda, Zukav, the Bible, Confucius) contained songs for me. So, I started writing them out and put myself on the road to producing this CD. I also realized (and still do) that my abilities as a singer and musician were (and are) limited (to whatever I learned up to 1966). So much
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