Good News

Paragraph 1. If you have a Dream, a Vision, Goal or Desire --- go at it and go at it hard and heavy!! When I was 8 years old I knew I wanted to be Music. I began pretending to perform at 4-5 years old with fifties rock n roll. At 9 years old I had my first guitar and broke it because I used it as a bridge and walked across the neck and snapped it in half like a piece of one by three inch piece of pine wood. I cried hard. At 10 I was playing the drums. I became a snare drummer for a drum and bugle corps and it was a dream to march in the parades on Broadway. I was "Drums" I learned para diddles, rolls, flam's and was on my way to reach my  Dream...But that wasn't the case. I would play on my best friend’s kit to practice playing but then he began gigging. My parents at that time could not afford a drum kit for me let alone the thought of me rehearsing in my bedroom which already cramped with a bed, dresser, my pet chicken and myself.




2. I would drum anywhere with anything. I constantly drummed with my fingers at the kitchen table and used the heels of my shoes to get a kick sound and it drove my parents and the tenants on the first floor bonkers. My best Uncle Joe kicked in for me to buy a guitar. ((((Guitar?))))) But I love the drums. I can play the drums. I'm really good with meter, rhythm, hand and foot coordination. The finances just weren’t there in 1962. My Dad was already paying for me to attend a catholic school-which was the good “Old Italian” way and still is today. Great for some kids but I wished they used the money to buy me the drums.



3. I was a rebel at an early age. First day in kindergarden I crawled below the desks to sneak out because the teacher would not let me color at the same table with a girl I had a crush on and besides I didn’t see any garden there at all. My cousin Mary was waiting outside to pick me up and the rest is history with that idea. I was now officially a crowned rebel and it’s been that way ever since which by the way Kids…”do not try this at home” That’s my story..you can get your own.



So about the guitar… TO BE CONTINUED…