David Senra

The next day, I convinced my mom to take me down to this small store.

There, with no money to spend, we rented a guitar.

I took it home, opened its case, smelled its wood, still one of the sweetest and most promising smells in the world.

I felt its magic, and I sensed its hidden power.

And it is very shortly after that he realizes he is different from other people.

His response to things is almost always different.

This is in the middle of Beatlemania, and this is what he says.

I didn't want to meet the Beatles.

I wanted to be the Beatles.

So at 15 years old, he's going to join a band and he starts performing.

And he is so obsessed, he's willing to play any and everywhere.

And so for the very first time he performs, it's at the Elks Club.

And there's a series of bands that play for a crowd of about 75 locals.

After this, his band was booked at a high school dance.

Very shortly after that, his bandmates decide to vote him out of the band.

They said his guitar was too cheap and it wouldn't stay in tune.

And he describes his response to being kicked out of the band.

I was going to make it work.

That night I went home, pulled out a Rolling Stones album, put it on, and taught myself the guitar solo from the song It's All Over Now.

It took me all night, but by midnight I had a reasonable copy of it down.