Took a long time to get here.  Some might wonder why.  Well here is the deal.  I started playing at about 11 years old.  I did not have a clue so I went to the YMCA and took a beginners course and learned songs like Kumbaya and some other campfire songs.  Then I met some guys who had a band and learned stuff like Gloria and House of the Rising Sun.  Next I met some people that were into folk music and I learned basic finger picking.  This lead to one of the cool dudes at school taught me Tangerine Puppet by Donovan.  I was 13 then and this took me off into a whole different world of guitar.  Right after that I started hanging around the U-District and was turned on to playing in "open tuning" by a music major which really opened things up for me.

At this point I was hooked and started working at it really hard.  By the time I was 18 I was good enough to win a competition at Cornish (another story because I did not get to enroll) then I had an accident that crippled my left hand.  At the time there were no procedures to repair a severed nerve but a few years later they developed "microscopic" surgery and they fixed it.  Prognosis was If I worked at it hard enough in 30 or 40 years I would gain most of the mobility back.  Well they were right and here we are.

Please don't see this as a sad story.  My life has been a real adventure.  I suppose if I was really wanting to spend my life as a musician I just would have taken up slide or steel guitar.  There wasn't anything wrong with my picking hand or my ear but I had a lot of other things to learn.

Now though playing the guitar is about all I want to do and this is good time to get started.

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