Of what avail would be a guitar without lessons? Enter Roger Surname-Withheld. He was a multi-instrumentalist, conservatory educated guitar teacher. 

His ad in the newspaper offered hope for my ambitions! So, I gave him a call...

Even in the economy of the early 1990s,
$9 per half hour seemed  such a bargain, 
it was more akin to grand larceny!

My earnest desire was that I would not be charged with a felony for the knowledge that he and other teachers would help me learn!

My Journey started in March, 1991, when I bought my first guitar. It was a simple, one single-coil pickup, Kay Guitar. It was blue and white. The medical student I bought it from, included a Peavey Audition 20 practice amplifier as an incentive for my purchase. I guess he decided that the healing arts and sciences needed his priorities more!

Little did I know that the Musical Journey that that and future instruments would lead me on, would help me encounter the experience of the most preeminent physician of all time, Jesus Christ!