Reply #21: Thank you for the compliment. No, I never did any teaching, [View All]

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because I never took any lessons, and therefore couldn't figure out how to teach anyone....

Damn, you've got me reminiscing. I started out playing classical guitar, then attempted to learn Flamenco...an injury led to a loss of finger speed in my left hand, so that was the end of that. Farted around playing odds and ends of stuff, and somehow wound up in Houston (well, not somehow, actually it was chasing a girl halfway across the country), playing country music for a living for about a year and a half. Wrote and sold some songs, including two that ended up being available for theft on Napster, so I guess that's some measure of fame.

Got sick of Houston and moved back Northeast, to play bluegrass; got sick of dealing with having a band (it's like being a second-grade teacher), and went solo doing Irish music which is the most fun of all, because you play in bars and have audiences who are drinking and you can have lots of fun with them...

But all that's gone now, and damn, damn, DAMN do I miss it. I can't go anywhere where there's live acoustic music because it makes me fucking nuts with frustration.

End of whine. Thank you for listening, anyone who reads it.

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