<p>I was born in Tampa, Florida in 1957 to a share-cropper's son who escaped the fields by enlisting in the Air Force. Being an AF brat, I've lived in North Carolina, Hawaii, Michigan, Florida and Frankfurt, Germany. <br />My grandmother had a piano I loved playing around with since I was 3 or 4 years old. My older brothers began teaching me bass lines on a guitar in 1967. Graduated to chords soon thereafter, and they taught me more about what I trying to play on Grandma's piano, and&nbsp;a&nbsp;Magnus Chord Organ my dad bought in 1969. Never had any real music lessons. though.<br />I was in the Air Force in the late 1970s and joined a band called Black Mariah from Lompoc, Ca. I played guitar or bass, sometimes keyboards, whatever was needed. Played at the Troubador on New Music Night in 1981, to a less-than-full house. <br />I moved from Ca upon my seperation from the AF, and have lived in Tx and NC most of the time since then.</p>