Thanks guys. Donny provided me with an enormous insight into marketing my tallents. He is a master at this, he's very creative, and his wife Nancy, who manages his very busy schedule, is also his booking agent. They make a great team.

Zuki,

I've been playing music since I was a youngster, played my first paying job at 17, but after a 4-year stint in the U.S. Navy, I went to work for Bendix Field Engineering on Project Mercury. After a couple years, I did a short stint with the Maryland State Police, got married, got shot at, then decided being a cop was not conducive to longevity. I changed gears, went to work at University of Maryland Hospital as a cardio-pulmonary technician, then attended school at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda to learn how to run a heart-lung machine for open heart surgery. After six years at U of MD, I moved to Spokane, Washington and taught cardio-pulmonary technology at Spokane Community College for three years, then returned to Maryland and headed the Pulmonary Function Laboratory at Johns Hopkins Hospital for the next five years.

I walked away from the medical field after nearly 15 years and never looked back. I then picked up a guitar, a drum machine and got back into music part time, performing mainly at smoke-filled, hillbilly bars. At the same time, I began writing outdoor columns for a couple publications. This blossomed into a full time, freelance writing carreer that put me on the masthead of 25 publications. During the day I wrote about fishing, hunting, camping, boating and outdoor related sports. At night I played music.

I still do a little writing, but the music biz has taken off to a point where I perform nearly every day. My wife says being married to me has been anything but boring, and while we have our differences, after 45 years of being married to me she figgures it would be hard to find another as crazy as the one she current is married to.

Cheers,

Gary

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