BILLY GEWIN

When I was about five years old, my parents bought this little organ and brought it home. I never got to be terribly good on the thing, but I couldn't keep my hands off of it and so my parents signed me up for lessons. We had this big Irish Setter that would pee on everything, including the organ, and eventually the bass pedals wouldn't work anymore, and so I asked if I could get a bass guitar for a birthday present. I started taking lessons on that and joined a rock band as an early teenager. We played proms and homecomings and started writing songs ourselves. It wasn't long before we went into a studio to record them, and I was hooked.