Don Chance:  

After high school I was a woodwinds major at MCC, where I also took as much journalism as possible. When I realized why the music department was part of the education department -- that the main idea was to turn out music TEACHERS instead of music performers -- the charm went out of it all pretty quick and I quit college; and eventually went on the road with a country band. All these years later I've only done two kinds of work for a living: Playing music (guitars of all kinds, piano, bass, pedal steel guitar, dobro, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and providing lead and backup v...Expand for more