John Bardsley:  

Sorry I missed the graduation ! I was a bored pissed-off truant, so my parents put me in military school to "straighten me up" for my senior year. I learned how to attack with saber on a galloping and jumping horse, as in the Napoleonic wars. I got good grades, and I love horses ! My draft number was 339, so I got to stay home from the Vietnam War. Only lottery I ever won. I was in some world-shaking Rock bands as keyboard player, namely "OB'" and "12th Street and 4", and was the only white boy in soul bands the "Dreamlovers" and the "Van Dykes," of Annapolis fame. I had a BMW R69S motorcycle and an Austin-Healey 3000 soft-top sports car. They were fairly cheap and available in those days. I could retire on what they'd be worth today ! In 1972, I returned to California, where I had been born in 1949, and I remained there mostly ever since. I'm a graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara, and lived and worked most of my life in Santa Barbara and Monterey in the computer software industry. Now I'm "semi-retired" in Alicante, Spain, where we produce handmade guitar capos of my design. We have 6 workers, including myself. This is an anarcho-syndicalist enterprise, meaning NO stocks or investors - the workers own and manage it all. Not to be confused with communist, where the state owns it all, or fascist, where the oligarchic multinational corporations own everything (nearly where the world is now, alas). Music has always been a big part of my life. I like classical as well as Rock, Besides writing tunes I am researching some of the great Spanish organ composers such...Expand for more