David Senra

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.

Fuck them.

I was going to play lead guitar.

For the next several years, I would spend every available hour cradling my guitar, twisting and torturing the strings until they broke or until I fell back on my bed asleep with it in my arms.

While other kids were hanging out, I would rush home to my room and I'd stay there and play until the early morning.

I had a secret.

There was something that I could do, something I might be good at.

I fell asleep at night with dreams of rock and roll glory in my head.

This is the start of that determined work ethic.

And so he forms another band.