You don't know what you don't know... neither did he
I talked to a guy recently who was in his sixties, top of his career and miserable. He had no more mountains to climb, no new hills to take and everything felt pretty meaningless. So his wife bought him a guitar. He had never been musical, but she knew he liked listening to the old rock classics.
And something happened.
He loved it. Every bit of it. The smell of the rosewood rubbing off on his...
Springsteen-Strength
In the summer of 1976, Bruce Springsteen was everywhere. His face was on the cover of Time and Newsweek in the same week — a feat no rock musician had pulled off before. Born to Run had made him a phenomenon. The world was waiting to see what he'd do next.
Then, almost overnight, everything stopped.
A legal dispute with his manager Mike Appel over the direction of his career had been building f...
He waited too long
"I'm sorry but I have to put the guitar down for good." Words he never thought he’d say, but were true.
This was a student of mine last year who had always said “one day I’ll pick up the guitar” and kept putting his career ahead of his dream.
Unfortunately by the time “one day” rolled around and he was retired arthritis had set in so badly that within a few weeks the pain was unbearable. My h...
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