Got this from my daughter this morning. Happy Father's Day

Gary

Never knew you had such moves, Gary ...
Happy Father's Day to all S-Z dad's ...

WTG Laura! She caught the essence of Gary.

Gary.........that's just the way you looked at the arranger jam doing all the grilling for all of us........HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all the father's here.

Don't know Gary. Depicts you as a guitar playing, car lover. I think keyboard playing boat lover

Thanks Steve, and a very happy father's day to you as well.

Jim, when I first got into music at age 12, I kicked it off with playing a 6 string acoustic guitar purchased in a pawn shop for $10. It took me a month of lawn mowing to save that much money. Later, when I was in the US Navy, I joined up with a small, 4-piece rock band. I purchased another guitar, a solid body electric at a pawn shop in Norfolk, VA for about $25 and picked up a 100-watt tube amp for the same amount. A couple weeks later, I bought a Shure SM58 mic, which I used for 20 or more years. When the guys in the band found out I could sing, they put me up front and although I was not much of a lead guitar player, I could sing my ass off, which is what they needed to round out the band.

It was about 1960 when I was discharged from the Navy, purchased another acoustic guitar, and began performing the honky-tonk, hillbilly bars north of Baltimore as a single. Just me, my guitar, my amp and my mic - that was it. When I got married, the music jobs went from two a weekend, to one a month.

When I discovered arranger keyboards I quickly dumped the guitars, which sat in their cases for years before selling them to DanO1 in Baltimore. From that point on, I never went back to playing a guitar, though it was a fun time in my life.

As for cars, I never was a car guy, though I once seriously considered buying a new Griffith. It was the fastest car in the world at the time, 0 to 60 in 3.57 seconds and that was stock from the showroom floor. Back in 1962, the car sold for about $5,200, which was a year's salary for me at the time.



Now I take things slow and easy, nothing faster than 10 MPH on the sailboat, but a wonderful, smooth ride, and great living conditions.

All the best,

Gary