Gary Rodriguez

Over 1 million mp3 downloads/plays in my internet career.

Took private lessons from the late virtuoso guitarist, Juan Mercadal.

My method consists of taking the simplest guitar piece and recording it, then I try another a little more difficult, and here I am today. At this time I am not recording because holding the guitar causes pain in my shoulder which brings on headaches. Also, it's hard work and I am running out of music that inspires me.

Born in Detroit MI where I grew up on one of the toughest sts - CASS AV -. Born after radio but before tv. At 5 yrs-old I was a lookout at a crap game. My duty was to yell, "cops!" if I saw a police cruiser go by. At 6 years of age I moved up to selling newspapers on a street corner. My first intellectual job was dusting books in a used-book store at 13. The big benefit was I got to borrow books. to be cont.

Segovia is to guitar players what Adam is to humanity.

I like to tell stories, photograph and write/record humor. So you might see some of that here, because I have a lot of it.