David Senra

At this point, he puts everything he has into his work.

Most of the people in rock and roll are obviously doing a lot of drugs and alcohol.

He doesn't do anything.

He says, there would be no wasted days and no wasted nights for me.

I'd seen that and I'd wanted no part of it.

I didn't do any drugs or drink.

One of my ex-roommates and a fellow guitarist would end it all with a gunshot to the head after a short life of ingesting far too many chemicals and ending up a wasted talent on the skids.

I'd seen people mentally ruined, gone and not coming back.

I was barely holding on myself as it was.

I couldn't imagine introducing unknown agents into my system.

I needed control.

I was afraid of myself, what I might do or what might happen to me.

I'd already experienced enough personal chaos to not go in search of the unknown.

I'd seen my dad and that was enough.

I wasn't looking for outside stimulants to help me lose or find anything.

Music was going to get me as high as I needed to go.

And so he's just relentlessly practicing.

He's relentlessly focused.

All he does is play and practice and play and practice.

At this time, the band is called Still Mill.