Post by crawforde2 on Jan 1, 2020 12:57:26 GMT
There seems a common thread of Air Force around here.
I was enlisted, security police, active from from 1987 to 1993, then some time in the reserves.
After that was university.
I never had any music or even much exposure to it as a kid, we didn’t have any money and my parents were not at all musical. I was a Boy Scout for a while, on a trip I was given a harmonica and was taught Yellow Rose of Texas, you saw how worked out
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After high school and before the military I worked in Theatre for a bit, stage and set construction and lighting mostly, got some work setting up for rock bands, classical performances, ballets, folk groups, international music, some big bands, a bit of everything.
It’s funny my first foray into music was from backstage.
After school I got work as a field scientist, traveling a lot, and living out of a tent or a truck bed most of the time.
That’s when I tried playing the harmonica. I got an 8 hole chrometta. Too many issues and it went in the drawer.
I broke my back in 2010, bought another harmonica while recovering, never got any good but really liked it.
Bought a chromatic a while later...
Then had to quit everything for a while I had a little battle with cancer. I was laid up being fed through tubes and lost my voice (that made a lot of people happy!).
Anyway I healed up, went back into the field and started playing again. It’s been slow going, But as nerves grow back and I get feeling in my lips and tongue, my mouth works better and I can have fun and get some control over my little noise makers. I credit the harmonica with a lot of my recovery.
Sadly, I took a promotion so now I am office bound much of the time, but can still find a moment now and again to pull a harmonica out of my bad and play.
I was enlisted, security police, active from from 1987 to 1993, then some time in the reserves.
After that was university.
I never had any music or even much exposure to it as a kid, we didn’t have any money and my parents were not at all musical. I was a Boy Scout for a while, on a trip I was given a harmonica and was taught Yellow Rose of Texas, you saw how worked out
. After high school and before the military I worked in Theatre for a bit, stage and set construction and lighting mostly, got some work setting up for rock bands, classical performances, ballets, folk groups, international music, some big bands, a bit of everything.
It’s funny my first foray into music was from backstage.
After school I got work as a field scientist, traveling a lot, and living out of a tent or a truck bed most of the time.
That’s when I tried playing the harmonica. I got an 8 hole chrometta. Too many issues and it went in the drawer.
I broke my back in 2010, bought another harmonica while recovering, never got any good but really liked it.
Bought a chromatic a while later...
Then had to quit everything for a while I had a little battle with cancer. I was laid up being fed through tubes and lost my voice (that made a lot of people happy!).
Anyway I healed up, went back into the field and started playing again. It’s been slow going, But as nerves grow back and I get feeling in my lips and tongue, my mouth works better and I can have fun and get some control over my little noise makers. I credit the harmonica with a lot of my recovery.
Sadly, I took a promotion so now I am office bound much of the time, but can still find a moment now and again to pull a harmonica out of my bad and play.
