It started out to be a shitty. day, but as, the hours passed and it moved toward evening, it got even worse! I figured it had to be about time for me to give up my ideas about becoming a musician, pack up my guitar, my records, hi-fi, and the few clothes I had besides the funky jeans that were my basic, and favorite garb, start hitch-hiking back home!

First of all, I’m a damned good musician! It’s just that it isn’t all that easy getting a foot in the door of the business, unless you’re willing to make certain concessions like selling your soul, to say nothing of your body, to get anywhere! Well, I wasn’t ready to make those concessions, so I wasn’t only not getting very far, I was getting nowhere!
So when you’re licked or when you refused to let the right people lick (or suck) you, it’s time to give up the good fight and, shuffle home with your...