I used to entertain in the mid seventies and 80's. I got a tatoo I had made by the tatoo artist named tramp. He played in the movie Evil kunevil. It is a star with a golden rainbow shining down on my guitar. I was playing in a night club where the sons of silence were hangin out. Kinda like some kind of body guards. And they were very perswasive on me to get mine. I was being showed how to play the song called the sandman by a member from the band called america. This was on the boardwalk in Jaxsonville beach fl, back in 1971 or so. Jimmy Buffet was running down A1A doing his thing and times were good. My ocean front apartment right on the beach was 25 bucks a week. Everything is very different in that area now. I got nothing but dreams.
I still have my martin d35 and write songs for my wife and kids sometimes.
I got my tatoo in Dallas, where tramps dungeon was at.
He had a girl on a wheel , spinning here in a circle while undressed, and one in a stock head rack with her head and hands being held in it and was telling me the tat is free if I can sit through the whole thing and not make a sound or smile at the girls.
So from back then till now, alls I play is america, eagles, neil young, led z, moody blues, uriah heep, rollin stones and all the other old stuff nobody really listens to anymore.
Sucks getting old and going blind. But I had a very fun interesting past to say the least.
6 dollar motels, 1.65 hr wages, 17 cent gas, life was good. ...Alan