The story you are about to read is true. None of the names have been changed to protect the innocent, but in Rock & Roll,there are no innocents.

My father was a musician.
Somewhere around the age of fourteen, I picked up a guitar for the first time. It happened to be a Sunday morning. The night before, Dad had been on a gig. He was hungover,and in bed at 9.30 a.m. I was in the living room, pounding on his guitar along with the country music station on the radio. I had no idea as to what I was doing.
Dad stormed into the living room in his jockeys screaming, if you're gonna play that thing you're gonna play it right.
He taught me "C" "F"& "G7th".

I actually started my musical career as a singer in a band, can't remember what we called ourselves... if we had a name. I was so shy that I turned away from the other guys to sing. We only played for our families and friends. I was still working on the three chords my dad taught me when I met Rick, a drummer. One jam led to another and suddenly there was the "CENTURYS". This was the beginning of the rest of my life, so far.

To explain how I ended up as a Crowbar would take that long so for now I'll make it short.
From the "CENTURYS", to "Joe Pino & the Starlights", to the "Five Ascots", to the "Ascot Revue", to "Ronnie Hawkins", to "Crowbar".
It all sounds so simple.
Skip to 2001 and here we are again.
What happened in between those year's I'll talk about in future updates.