CBB - 1975

After last weeks post, I thought I might give a little back ground of my life before this time around in baseball.

I learned to play guitar by watching my two older brothers play. My first recollection of playing in a band was with my two older brothers when I was about 9 or 10. I was given the job of playing the bass lines on an electric guitar. From that time through high school, I was always playing in some type of band.

This is a picture of the Chesshir Brothers Band taken in 1975 in the front yard of our house in Korea. From left to right are jb, Phil, me, Don, and Rand in the back with all the hair. After our parents decided to go back in 1974 when I graduated from high school to continue their work, we all decided to go back with them.

We spent a year playing around Korea and doing a lot of performing for the GI's at the army bases. We actually played at the final resting place of the 4077th Mash base which was the unit that the movie/TV show was about. From the USO clubs to a huge naval ship with about 2000 soldiers, to mountain top bases with missiles pointed to the north and only 12 soldiers...it was an incredible experience for us. I'm sure we weren't that good as a band, but we had a blast and for the most part, the soldiers didn't mind that we weren't that good. They were just happy that we came and played some songs that they knew as we mixed in our own compositions to appease our egos.

After a year of this, we all decided (except our little brother who was still in high school) to go to California and see what we could do there as a band. We played off and on but I knew that one day I would have to move on from my brothers.