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	In 1956 (about the time I was 16) and everything great involved a guitar -- Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Kingston Trio, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry ... Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis ... Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Charlie Christian and Freddie Green. ... and a slew country-western stars. I had a job at the Gibson guitar distributor (Chicago Musical Instrument - 7373 N. Cicero Ave., Lincolnwood, Illinois) My first two guitars were Gibsons. Bob Harris was a guitar teacher over at Karnes Music in Evanston. Bob taught me jazz and blues; Chicago was, after all, a jazz and blues town. But it was also a country and western town with Bob Atcher's National Barn Dance in Schaumburg about 15 miles from my High School. Blues and jazz were the thing at the Sutherland Hotel lounge at 64th and Drexel Ave. Times were good and everybody had plenty of cash (big cars and fancy clothes). It was the best times in the 20th century -- especially if you were 16 years old.
Johnny Rector	The Grand Old Opry beamed up into Illinois and Indiana from WSM Nashville every Friday night. All you needed was a pair of rough out boots and most of us already had the T-shirt with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve and a pair of bleached out jeans. Johnny Rector (a fantastic jazz guitarist) worked at CMI and taught me a slew of jazz chords. He got me hooked up with Vince Chewning's Band (another CMI employee) and later with Art Van Damme's band. Johnny was a great mentor. I served "my time" in the Navy. After that I went to Loyola University on the GI Bill and played guitar in small groups (blues, polka, rock, jazz). You needed a union card -- James Petrillo was the musicians union in Chicago. I moved to Carbondale in 1969; 400 miles south of Chicago in the Illinois "hill" country. Carbondale is closer to Memphis than to Chicago. Kentucky and S.E. Missouri are just across the river. It's definitely "country-western" music. Back then Roy Acuff hosted the Grand Old Opry every Friday night on WSM Nashville. So by that time I played jazz, blues, church. country and western and folk and kids songs and church songs. We took the kids camping in a Midas trailer and played along with bluegrass players under Coleman Lanterns A guitar went just about anywhere. It was always easy to grab a guitar and play some tunes. Over the past few years this is what I have been doing: 2009 Grossmont Gardens Retirement Center Country & folk 2009 Plymouth Church, San Diego 2009 12 Bar Blues workshop, Phee Shirlines, Fallbrook (Ken Graydon) 2009 "The Saints" swing and jazz band (San Diego) 2009 Swing Street band (Tom Conti's band) 2009 Blues group -- Tuesday nights (Kadan's Tavern) 2009 St. Paul's Assisted Living Home 2009 Pacific Pointe Retirement Home 2008 San Diego Folk Song Society 2008 Swing Street band (Tom Conti's band) 2008 Paragon Band (guest musician) 2008 Hal Jellison's jazz dance band 2008 Cuyamaca State Park's 75th Birthday 2008 Southwestern College -- mariachi band 2008 North Park Senior dance band 2008 Monday Night Jazz Group -- trio 2008 Country Western Sunday Group 2008 Blues group -- Wednesday nights 2008 Jeanettes "open" Jam 2008 San Diego Folk Singers Jam -- Sundays 2008 Slo Jam (folk music) 2008 Ronald McDonald House 2008- 2006 WOW Annual Outing (sing-a-long) 2008 St. Paul's Assisted Living Home 2008 Pacific Pointe Retirement Home 2007 Inland Bluegrass & Folk, Temecula 2007 Old Tyme Music Players, San Diego 2007 most of the jams listed in 2008 2006 Slojam San Diego, CA 2006 Fuddruckers, La Mesa, CA (jamming) 2006 summer Ronald McDonald House, Wednesdays 2006 Lazy River Jazz Band (San Diego) guitarist 2005 to 2006 Two Listener's Church, Oceanside, CA 2005 to 2007 San Diego Bluegrass Society 2001 to Present: playing/singing at private parties, churches, children 1986 to 1995: South Orange county & Dana Pt. Harbor 1979 to 86: Santiago De Compostella Church, Msn Viejo 1986 to 1995 Piano/guitar duet San Juan Capistrano 1986 - 1997 SASS at Coto de Caza (cowboy) 1969-75: Southern & Central Illinois - Blues, Gospel, Country & Bluegrass 1963-67: Chicago (blues bands) 1959 to 62 - USN: E.M. club Fleet Sonar School, San Diego '59 - '60 1957 - 1958 Johnny Rector's Jazz Knight's Chicago Area '56 to '59 1959 Union B license: sat in with Art Van Damme Quintet, CMI/Gibson 1958 - 1959 played in Vince Chewning Band, Chicago Area (dance & polka) 1956 - 1958 formal lessons Karnes Music, Evanston Illinois B.S. - Loyola University of Chicago; Liberal Arts. M.A. - Roosevelt University; management Teaching: 2001 -- >2005 Learning Annex 1999 to 2001 Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad 1994 to 1997 Saddleback College, Mission Viejo. 1988 to 1998 Helms Group, Long Beach 1978 to 1990 International City Management Association 1978 to 1990 Cal State Los Angeles 1969 to 1975 Project A69-15: Southern Illinois University 1971 to 1975 McHenry College, McHenry Illinois