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Dave Kulju
7+ albums
Progressive rocksymphonic progy2k progProgressiveprog
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About me By Dave on Tuesday, December 6th 2005 10:00 am I was born on January 15th, 1970 (MLKs birthday). After that I learned to walk and read and play soccer. In 1982 at my Mother's urging (she figured I needed a hobby I suppose) I started taking guitar lessons. For the first two years I didn't practice much and made almost no progress. Then I got a Peavey electric guitar with a "Standard" brand amplifier and started to play a little bit more. If I turned the volume (it had no gain control) and the reverb up all the way it sort of made distortion and this to my ears then made me sound very cool when I played Dio's "Rainbow in the Dark" for the neighborhood kids outside my window. circa 1973Around 1986 I had learned to mangle a couple of Rush songs and started playing music with some older kids who were playing a lot of what I guess is often called "Acid Rock". So then I learned how to mangle songs by Jimi Hendrix, BTO, The Eagles, Yes, Zepplin, The Who, and other bands of that era. Musical activity revolved around "Mason's Barn" which was literally a barn that we used as a make-shift night club. Kevin Mason graciously allowed us to make all sorts of noise there for unknown reasons but the whole Mason gang were great people who were always very nice to us strange musicians who would show up there and play. Since it was in close proximity to the downtown area of Hampton, NH we would sometimes garner small but supportive crowds of folks who would come listen. I think these
