He could sit down and sing like four hours of Bob Dylan. I showed my oldest brother Johnny how to play guitar and he’d play a song from the radio, but he could sing. When he was out riding motorcycles, I sat in my room for 6-9 hours a day playing music, just learning. My brother Matt is a guitarist, he was the first one to show me how to play chords. My mom played piano every morning for us, a Mozart piece that went really fast while she told us to hurry and get on the bus. I think that’s why I like ballads and certain bands. My mom always says my demeanor as a person is very empathic towards people (because of that experience). And when I was in the hospital there, in the 70’s, there was a drug they were giving women that caused all kinds of birth defects, babies with no arms or legs, body parts growing in the wrong places. I would’ve had braces like Forrest Gump, had a stump for a leg, not been able to walk. I was in Shriners Hospital when I was a kid. “When I sing or write my own music, I like a lot of slow songs. When I got serious, I was probably 13.”ĭOES YOUR CHILDHOOD, FAMILY PLAY A PART IN WHAT YOU LISTEN TO OR PLAY? So then I got another guitar and started playing when I was around 9. I had it for a day and my brother sat on it and broke it. He’d play “Puff the Magic Dragon” and this Irish song called “The Pots and Pans and the Dirty Dishes”. “My Uncle Frank, who was the patriarch of our family, he’s the one that would sit around at parties and play his cherry red coupe Gibson guitar.
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