Kevin Cronin

or whatever, I think that it kind of goes to there because my feelings were... I wasn't allowed to feel what I was really feeling because I was told what to feel.

Yeah.

And that's tough on a kid.

And, hey, a lot of weird happens to kids in the spectrum of things that can happen to you when you're a kid.

This was pretty... I'm pretty lucky that that's what my problem was.

Yeah.

Right.

So if you wouldn't have, if you wouldn't have found the guitar, if the guitar wouldn't have found you, where do you think you would be right now?

I could see that.

I had an English teacher.

I went to Brother Rice High School in Southside.

All boys high school.

Crazy scene.

If you weren't on the football team, you basically didn't exist.

And playing guitar was not exactly cool.

Well, you know, I had been taking guitar.

I wanted to play drums.

My parents wanted me to play piano, so we settled on the guitar.

And my dad, in his inimitable boy, said, guitar, you can take it with you anywhere you go.

If you get invited to a party, you can bring your guitar.