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When I was 12 years old I started taking guitar lessons at a music shop in West Bend, Wisconsin. The teacher was awesome but patience and practice were not my thing. I wanted to be a rock star and play wicked solos on my battle axe rather than learn new parts of “Mary Had A Little Lamb”. I quit guitar lessons after about a month and my electric guitar became great for collecting dust.

Over the years I would mess around with that guitar and I would even learn some Green Day and Operation Ivy songs, but the interest I once had was gone. I moved on to other things. When I was about 19 years old I met a girl that played guitar and my rock star ambitions suddenly came back to me. With the few lessons I had under my belt and the handful of songs that I could play, I was a bit more advanced than she was, and she totally dug that! When that girl and I weren’t hanging out I was practicing and learning new songs.

Sublime was the first band I really got into. The acoustic songs Bradley recorded felt so good for me to play that I quickly realized that the acoustic side of guitar was more my style. I had an old acoustic guitar with a couple of strings missing and for my 20th birthday my mom had it restrung. I played it everyday. I was out of high school and I rarely kept a job past the first payday. I had quite an amount of guitar playing free time at my disposal. I would perfect a song, and then find a new one that I wanted to learn. I felt more and more comfortable playing and singing, and I wondered if I could write my own music and sing my own lyrics. The first version of “My Cure” came shortly after that, and the rest is present…