B Sharp Music December 1966

B Sharp had a great bulletin board with autographed pictures of all the
stars of the day; Beatles, Stones, and everybody on down.
It was mesmerizing to look at, a real work of art preserved under
what appeared to be Saran Wrap. I read that it went up in smoke
when the store burned to the ground in May 2005.

1967

In my first year of learning the guitar I happened to see a band called the More-Tishans at the MN State Fair. I noticed that one of the guitar players kept his hand in the same position as he moved it up and down the neck. I moved to the front of the stage and stared at that hand until the image was burned in my brain. I held my hand in that position all the way home and applied it to the fingerboard of my guitar as soon as I got there.
Voila! I had discovered the bar chord...

Tools of the Trade... Guild, Gibson, Fender and the Vox Distortion Booster 1966-'69

In 1966 distortion units were commonly called "fuzz tones" 

and they were hard to come by. I remember calling just about every music store 

in the phone book to try to locate one. Occasionally a saleswoman would answer 

the phone and when I asked if they had a "fuzz tone" 

I would inevitably get laughed at and hung up on. 

AM Radio 1966

1st Electric Guitar 1965

In the late summer of 1965, after nine months of struggling with a 

cheap classical guitar, I persuaded my Dad to take me shopping 

at Len's Guitar City in Richfield. While I was eyeing all the 

curvaceous Gibson models my Dad was making arrangements with the 

salesman for something more suited to our budget. 

I ended up with this nice Supro solid body with a Gibson Skylark amp. 

All for $35.00. Perfect!

Blues Scene with Mojo Buford 1969

Mojo Buford Blues Band 1969

The Surfers 1967...a short bio w/pics