Playing Since: 1975
Experience Level: Purty Good

Interests:
[Socializing]

Occupation: retired

Gender: Male
Age: 77

My Instruments:
Bacon; on and off an Orpheum,
faibanks and an old Regal

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Steve Martin, Bela Fleck, John Hartford, Erick Capton, Jeff Beck

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Created 1/16/2009
Last Visit 5/24/2016

I put myself through the first couple years of college playing drums in my old high school band, mostly blues, beatles and rock new and old. I got drafted went into the Navy. my Father had sold my drums by the time I got back and he was playing the Banjo. That is what got me started I guess. He restored instruments he would pick up for a couple hundred dollars and never really sold anything so I had alot to tinker with. He finally donated 20 some to a high school banjo band in Texas. I went with him to the banjo rally in Arkansas and then it switched to Oklahoma. I would just watch and pick up what I could. It was amazing. I never took any formal lessons like he did so I couldn't read music. I really wasn't into the Dixiland he so loved so I ventured into guitars and took lessons for a number of years on the classical guitar so I learned to read music that way. I had a pretty typical life nothing extrodinary, if I had my 15 minutes of fame it went by me. Kids Wife I should make that plural. Anyway I am taking up to much space I feel Iam writing a book. the only time I played professionally and was in a union was back in my teenage years. I just tinker with the strings of a tenor. I have picked up a bad habit of picking up something if it was stringed, different and I could afford it.