Has it really been 40 years since I started down this music highway? I guess I'll have to say, yes it has. My first real gig was at a Holiday Inn in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina, for two weeks in February, 1968. I was two years out of high school and been playing guitar for a little over two years. I knew about 40 Bob Dylan songs. So many that I had to make myself learn some other songs so I could get a gig. No one wanted to hire a one man Dylan cover band so I set out to learn some popular songs of the day. I didn't care much about songs other than Dylan songs, but I wanted to work so I learned. I could do "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" and "This Guy's In Love With You" and I can't remember what all right now but I learned. The summer before I had hitch-hiked to Newport, Rhode Island to the Newport Folk Festival and saw Arlo Guthrie sing "Alice's Restaurant." In the fall of that year I got a copy of the album and learned that whole song. That was how I got my gig in Charleston. I auditioned for the Holiday Inns singing "Alice's Restaurant." They gave me a roundtrip airline ticket and room and board at the hotel plus $150.00 a week salary.
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Has it really been 40 years since I started down this music highway? I guess I'll have to say, yes it has. My first real gig was at a Holiday Inn in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina, for two weeks in February, 1968. I was two years out of high school and been playing guitar for a little over two years. I knew about 40 Bob Dylan songs. So many that I had to make myself learn some other songs so I could get a gig. No one wanted to hire a one man Dylan cover band so I set out to learn some popular songs of the day. I didn't care much about songs other than Dylan songs, but I wanted to work so I learned. I could do "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" and "This Guy's In Love With You" and I can't remember what all right now but I learned. The summer before I had hitch-hiked to Newport, Rhode Island to the Newport Folk Festival and saw Arlo Guthrie sing "Alice's Restaurant." In the fall of that year I got a copy of the album and learned that whole song. That was how I got my gig in Charleston. I auditioned for the Holiday Inns singing "Alice's Restaurant." They gave me a roundtrip airline ticket and room and board at the hotel plus $150.00 a week salary.
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