![]() ![]() The next time, we did something a little bit more electric. The three of us kind of stumbled through the songs. We’d been playing in our garage, doing covers – Dylan, The Byrds, that kind of thing. Being on stage with other guys, playing music, that was it.Ĭan you recall the very first time you played on stage? ![]() Being a star or an idol was not on top of my list. That’s why I was a late starter at taking the guitar seriously. Rock’n’roll was a place I could go and nobody told me “No”. At the high-school dance you’d have all the jocks on the dancefloor, and a couple of guys on the side of the stage watching the band. I was always kind of an outsider at school, and I liked the idea of having a gang of outsiders. What made you want to play rock’n’roll rather than just listen to it? But I loved music, I loved rock’n’roll, the whole thing, and I felt like there was something there for me beyond being in the audience. I couldn’t get a passing grade to save my life, so going to college was not on the table. It just didn’t work with the way things were taught back then. ![]() Come back after you graduate college.” But I did not excel at school back then.ĭid that have something to do with your undiagnosed ADHD? I had a chance to meet some of the scientists at Wood’s Hole and they said: “You want to do this, that’d be great. As a kid I used to watch Jacques Cousteau, I wanted to be part of his team. I did everything I could do to spend time underwater. Why?Įvery summer we went up to the lake area in New Hampshire where my parents had a little cottage, and I just loved being in the water. Before you took up guitar, you wanted to become a marine biologist. ![]()
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