So, I totally had to work tonight so I couldn’t go to see Jonny Lang. I did go to the concert hall and I did wait to meet him and I DID meet him.

He signed my guitar and we took a picture. I am not star struck, but I was very excited to meet him. I told him how when I was a boy I didn’t have my own music. I had “Alvin and the Chipmunks” soundtrack and that was it.

On my eighth or ninth birthday I got a gift card to Amazon.com for like $25. I wanted to buy music. I purchased Beastie Boys “License to Ill”, because I knew the song ‘Girls’ and ‘Fight for your Right’ was on it and we used to listen to it all the time at open gym at Mad Town Twisters.

I asked for Jonny Lang because I saw him on the Disney channel dancing barefoot with long rock hair playing the blues. I was inspired because he was so young and so talented.

When the CDs arrived, I played them both on loop for years. I eventually got a guitar and started a band in high school. Which led me to sound engineering, and starting a media company, and the rest is history.

 

Tonight I got to meet Jonny Lang, and he signed my guitar.