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And I remember I would just be reading
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comic books, listening to music, and my
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father approached me.
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I think I was probably about
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he goes, "Are you going to be
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Are you just going to be a bump on a
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stump?" I think he meant bump on a log.
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I'm pretty confident that's what he
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meant, but he ran with bump on a stump.
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I'll never forget it. And I was like,
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"What do you mean?" Like and he's like,
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"Well, you know, you read comic books
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and you you listen to music and that's
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all great. You play sports and you you
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got to do something, you know, with with
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you got to find something to really get
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into, you know, an interest." And he
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said, "Why don't you play guitar like
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Elvis? You'll pick up all the girls."
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That's what he said to me. And he goes,
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"You know, your cousin teaches guitar.
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We can get you lessons." And I said,
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"All right, I'll give it a shot." So,
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he got me a Fender Strat. Beautiful I
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wish I still had it. Beautiful Fender
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white with this black pick board and I
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had a heavy metal distortion pedal and
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my Fender amp. And I went to to the
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lessons and well, I was learning the
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chords and stuff, but he would
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teach me on the piano. He would
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accompany me on the on the piano.
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>> And as he was doing that, I was like,
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"Wow, I I don't really see the guitar,
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though I'm learning it slowly, but I
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really see what he's doing on that
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piano." So, I put the guitar to the side
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and I picked up the piano. I did piano
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lessons with him and and that's where I
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really learned how to make music cuz now
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I could develop these chords and then I
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started writing songs and that's when I
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got into it. So, I was no longer a bump
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on a stump, according to my dad. Haha.
