Feb 13 2009
The long unfinished history of Gator’s songwriting
Let’s step back in time. Way back. Like 1979 back. I was 12 and had been playing guitar for a year or two, my $35 Acoustic from the MAE store in Ft. Lauderdale. In 1979 I wrote a song, and played/sang it in music class. I don’t know what possessed me to do that, but I did…and my friends were amazed at the whole thing. When I think back, I had a lot of song ideas back then. I probably was some child prodigy genius to them lol
Alas, it was 1979. Double-digit inflation 1979. Stagflation 1979. Jimmy Carter 1979. Let’s just say money was tight, and unlike these days people didn’t take any little glimmer of talent in their kids and blow a million bucks trying to make them into the next baseball star or music sensation. So while I had all these ideas, there wasn’t much I could do with it. At 13 I “upgraded” to a $50 electric guitar from Sears (with action about as high as a 2 story building), not exactly a shred machine, and after a while I got busy with other things and didn’t do much with it, just messing around from time to time. I saw some friends going way beyond what I could do so I didn’t see much point then.
