Started work at a little electronics fix-it shop in Boulder (Colorado). Two of us. Bill - the boss, and myself. I fixed everything and he went out and got business. And I mean fixed everything. Oscilloscopes, computer terminals, computers, signal generators, VOM's, oil drilling instrumentation, sound systems. If it plugged in to electricity and wasn't working it was my job to make it right.

Balanced the time between this and a rock-n-roll band (Sneak Attack), and doing home recording using two cassette decks - bouncing tracks between them to build up a multi-track recording with three guitars, bass, and two or three vocal tracks. My first tape - a cover of 'All Along the Watchtower' got critical acclaim during a local radio station's home-grown music gala and lots of call-in votes. I didn't win the contest because as it turns out there was some restriction that the music was supposed to be original. The Sneak Attack tape didn't do so hot - even though it was mostly original music and professionally produced at a studio in Steamboat Springs. Nobody remembers hearing it.