James Lotterer:  

I always wanted to be a musician when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a stupid or lame idea. As it turns out, they were WRONGGG !!. What I did after leaving Warsaw after graduation in 1975 ====== I will skip to 1977 for now. Will backtrack and write about '75 &'76 later. I had quite a career with music == from a van crowded with 6 guys and all our gear, just traveling to a new city to make enough $$ to eat and get to the next 1, all the way to paid studio composer/arranger and sesion musician and music contractor. I recorded lots of music for television pilots as well as doing industrial soundtracks for things like safety films, company 'infomercials' used to attract investors/buyers/consumers. I tellya, it was quite a good life !! I've played gigs in almost every state in the continental US, and all through Canada. I've had my own bands, joined others, opened for other acts small and not so small. MY EARLY YEARS Texas 1977 & 78 I think the most special memories I have is when I used to travel to Austin TX from San Antonio, in 77/78; I met a bunch of great people and found a guy that I partied with and watched at the clubs to teach me to play lead guitar. up to then, I was mainly a rhythm player as well as acoustic and fingerstyle. This guy became one of my best friends pretty quickly - he was the BEST blues player I'd ever met... and he could play Jimi Hendrix songs PERFECTLY !!! We all hung out & partied and jammed for almost 3 yrs, and he would show me some l...Expand for more