1. At age three weeks, I became an adoptee , but don't hold that against me, we're really like most everybody else.

2. I got a 45rpm record player when I turned eight. Also a 45 of Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City" and played it til my mom finally hid it for a while.

3. Spent first 14 summers on Lake of the Woods, Ontario and learned not to kill any beast unless I needed food. (Thanks Smokey Fadden, wherever you are.)

4. Beat out terrible notes on my Granny's upright piano until she decided to try and show me how to play Sante Lucia.

5. Gave up on piano lessons after hearing Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" on a transistor while passing papers one winter morning. Immediately went down to the record shop and put five bucks down on a $40.00 Kay guitar.

6. Took black and white shots of Eugene McCarthy on the Hancock County, Indiana Courthouse steps and got to shake his hand. Also saw Melvin Belli in that same courthouse, but forget the case and how he managed to come to our small town.

7. Went to Canned Heat concert in Indianapolis and got to talk to Bob Hite after the show. My buddies and I immediately abandon psychedelic music and play blues records over and over trying to get the sound right.

8. Once played and sang "From a Buick 6" on a Steinway with a neckmounted harmonica at my high school talent assembly. The music teacher later said,"I never knew you were musical. Your singing voice is very ahhh..unusual." The class president gave me a chromatic harmonica. Everyone else did show tunes that day. I was a hit!

9. Once drove to Akron, Ohio to dig a tunnel under a railroad line in January with an alcoholic and a crazy cajun. The cajun eventually got sick of listening to Bob babbling and hit him so hard his feet came off the ground. Just like in a cartoon. I never laughed so hard in my life cause I'd about had it with him too.

10. I spend too much time on this machine here, but it's a lot of fun and beats digging tunnels in Akron hands down.