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For my 40th birthday, my wife suggested that I make a playlist of the 40 songs that shaped who I am. I gotta say, this was a great trip down memory lane. I highly recommend it. I made a Spotify playlist of all these songs, so if you like, click here to listen along. Here they are, in no particular order. I can't even imagine trying to put these in order.    Something About You – Level 42 Excellent melody, and of course, Mark King’s awesome bass.     The Weight – The Band I love the soulful looseness of...

This post goes up on Earth Day: April 22, 2020.  Although it's only April, so far 2020 has already been a tumultuous, crazy year and the future, especially in regards to COVID-19, remains unclear and hard to predict.  When things are so uncharted and uncertain, we tend to turn to what is known and what can be controlled.  For us, that is this business and its impact on the earth. We're almost two years into this entrepreneurship journey of owning a guitar parts journey and we learn something new each and every damn day.  Now that all the major things...

The best I can figure, I've probably played somewhere around 500 gigs in my life. Rock & roll bands, dance, R&B, acoustic solo, duos, sometimes as a lead singer, sometimes strictly as a lead guitarist for hire. Festivals, private parties, casino contracts, opening for national acts, municipal events, and endless bars and clubs. Playing music has always been a part-time job for me, and a consistent part of my life for about 20 years. The last couple of years even more so. According to our accounting documents, from 2018 to 2019 my gig income increased by 198%. This was due...

I used to flip guitars. I'd buy something that was heavily used or had some kind of wiring issue/thing to get fixed, fix it up and then sell it. I'm sure many of you have done the same thing. I spent lots of years doing that in my spare time.  In high school, my dad and I would scour pawn shops and as Craigslist and eBay came on the scene, those became new places to search.  Before becoming a small business owner, I worked for State Farm, and in 2013 they relocated my wife and I from St. Louis Missouri to...