Don Swensen:  

Life... Well, where to start? Done a lot since high school. Married. Kids. Divorced. Remarried. Probably a lot of you with the same experiences. I'm a musician now, living near Seattle. I also work in the high-tech sector designing PC motherboards (currently working for Intel). I don't have any "Then" pictures (I think I might have burned them all in a brief moment of sanity!), so both pictures are from more recent days. The "Then" pic is from a show we payed at the Whitehorse Mountain Classic Rockfest in 2002, with Elvin Bishop, Delbert McClinton & Little Feat. The "Now" pic is from a show I played in March with Jerry Miller (from Moby Grape - Rolling Stone Magazine's #68 of the 100 greatest guitarists in the world! He's on the far left in the pic). I spent 5 years in a band called Rebel Storm. The music was all original southern blues/rock. We put out 2 CD's; "Stormin' South" in 2001, and "The Hard Way" in 2003. There are full versions of the songs available on my website (just google "Don 'Big D' Swensen). We toured Europe twice, in 2002 & 2003, and we were awarded the 2002 GRITZ Southern Music Hall of Fame Horizon Award. That band has since gone by the wayside, but my musical life goes on. I'm currently recording a new CD with "The Nite Cafe", a...Expand for more