It was in 7th grade I discovered Def Leppard's Hysteria album which changed my life forever.  I was into music before that, but had grown up listening to 50's music because that's all my parents listened too.  One Easter I got Michael Jackson's Thriller album which I played all the time and still have today.  I then bought Prince's Purple Rain Album which got played daily for a long time also.  The wild guitar riffs on that album caught my ear.  But nothing got my attention like the rock music I heard through my radio on station 94Z back in the 80s.  I bought Def Leppard's Hysteria which was my first cassette tape I do believe.  Then I bought one of the greatest rock albums of all time, Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction.  I wore those two tapes out!  They also led me to buy more and more 80s rock tapes of some of the bands whose logos you see here.  I dreamed of being a rock star someday as alot of kids do I guess.  When I was 17 I went to a friends house to hang out for a while.  He played bass and his brother had a drum set.  There was a young guy over there playing around on an electric guitar and I couldn't get enough of it.  I learned a couple of songs that night which amazed me.  My friend happened to have an electric guitar (A turquoise Peavey Falcon) and amp for sale at the time.  I went home, told my parents all about what happened and the next day I went and bought the guitar combo.  I went back to my friends house alot to learn my chords and new songs.  It all came easy to me and I eventually graduated to a bigger amp and a sweet Ibanez guitar.  The rest they say.....is history!