Kevin Cronin

Yeah.

I was...

I played clubs kind of up on Lincoln Avenue.

The Orphans was an original music club.

The Bulls was kind of a basement, more of a jazz club, but they had singer-songwriters.

I played there every Sunday.

I had a regular gig every Sunday, four sets a night.

Do you know that I've, so I played four sets a night and I strummed, I've always strummed pretty hard, but I used to use a medium pick back in those days.

I had a guild 12 string and I would always break at least one string.

So between every set, I would totally change the strings on my 12 string.

Which, yeah, which took the entire break.

And then no tuner.

So it's like... Oh, my goodness.

We didn't have tuners.

That's true.

You can imagine what I saw.

I mean, it had to have been horrible.

But I was doing my thing, but we had a little rock band, Fuchsia, and then we had a duo called The Late Late Show that did Simon & Garfunkel covers, acoustic versions of Buffalo Springfield and Moby Grape, and the occasional original.

And, you know... Did you think you had a talent for songwriting?

I... I don't know if I thought I did.