(Jack) Al Huhta:  

Well, I've been a lot of places and done a lot of things since 1973-74. I became a father in June 1973, and an event like that will put a person on the ground & running when you're only 17. I got married to Penny a year later, bought a house or two, had another son in '76, lived & worked in Rush City until 1980 when the honeymoon came to a screeching halt. I moved out to Grand Jct CO that year to get a fresh start, and got married again in 1982 to Ruby. I worked at a shale oil industrial site by day, & hooked up with a weekend band & played weekends. Then the shale oil project went belly-up with Exxon so again I was without a job. Decided to go full time with the music & started the life of a road band, playing all over the western US. We also recorded our original music in a local studio on a regular basis, to bring the business up a notch. The dark side of cutthroat music politics began to show its ugly truths. We had a son in '83 & a daughter in '84 during this period. The road life took a heavy toll on the marriage in those years, but I still tried to keep it all together. Went through a separation, while having another daughter in '89. The marriage was obviously over, but I was able to keep afloat with music until 1990, when the business headaches began to not be worth the money. Went back into the steelwork at Grand Junction Steel in April 1990 &...Expand for more