So what about the guitar?

    So... about the guitar. No doubt my family knew what I was headed for and especially since my interests with the arts began at a young age. My Dad never completed the 5th  grade. He had to leave his education behind so that he could work to help his parents financially by going to work at that young age. learning that without training or an education he struggled to make a living but working his ass off and did not want that to happen to his children.

Before we get into the guitar bid, here is a little info about a man who raise 7 children and knew first hand about showbiz. He too was very creative. He once told me he played piano when he was a teen and he had a baby grand piano. He and a friend wrote a song titled " Danceing with Tears in my Eyes" and presented it to a publisher in Boston MA. They were told the song wasent that good and that he would not publish it. They left his office devastated after the hard work they put into writing the song resulting with my Dad selling the piano to buy a car. In the 1930's it was hip to own a car for two reason...Women and work. Meanwhile because they left the song with the pubisher thinking it was trash, the pubisher actually sold the song. Later it was used in a few movies.

So he was not thrilled at the idea of my obsession to the arts. But my Uncle Joe, a very smart and funny man, decided to buy me a guitar instead of the drums because they were more expensive and too loud. My first guitar was a "ZIM GAR". I capitolized that because not only was it cheap, it also really sucked and hard for me to play.
So the next best thing I could come up with is to put 4 heavy gauge strings on it and use it to learn the bass guitar.

Heres where the story begins....more next post...thanks for reading and as you can see this is going to be a long adventure...bookmark my blog or rss it. ;-)

"ZimGar guitars were imported by a Brooklyn outfit and available for about $30.00-$50.00 from Kmart back in the 60s - usually short-scale, unabashedly cheap, and likely only of interest to a vintage Japanese import otaku (and there are more than a few), it was the "Esteban special" of its day. It's still probably worth $100 or so (in excellent shape) if you can find the right buyer.