Brandon Barton:  

Life After graduating high school, I spent four years at the University of Idaho, where I earned my B.S. in Wildlife Resources. That is also where I learned to play the guitar. We had some amazing times there, between getting a criminal record, recording the CNR Blues CD, editing The Snag, bringing wild turkeys back to the dorm, being KUOI dj's, etc. Every time Eric Larson and I talk, we tell those stories again, and again. We will be terrible old men. Idaho is a beautiful place, and I miss it dearly, but when I graduated I knew that personally and acedemically, I needed a change of scenery. Thus, I headed to the Florida coast and University of Central Florida. I spend just over two years there, studying sea turtles and their predators. Definitly some of the best summers ever--living in a beach house, fishing all day, riding ATV's on the beach to find 800 pound turtles all night. I think I was officially in 3 bands during the first year of grad school, which, in retrospect, was stupid. Balancing graduate school and band practice doesn't work. But, we still managed to play in the house, at our parties, or at open mic nights. Yelling "Freebird" got me on stage on two separate occasions. The first time, I befriended the band and they let me play with them every time they came to Sebastian Beach Inn, the bar on the beach that we did research on. It was understood--if the New Bellaires were playing, Brandon wasn't working. The band new I would be there, and the only time I was late was when we got pulled over by a cop for a broken license plate light. It was me, Kelly Roberts, and Bo,...Expand for more