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“You know, you’re never gonna learn to play that thing!”

That is the first thing I heard my brother say when I started playing guitar in 1983. I was a 21 year old junior in college in Chicago, and I just happened to have this great studio bass player for a roommate. He was hob-knobbing with famous musicians and recording with notorious bands such as The Scorpions and Triumph. One day, I was writing poetry and prose to combat the sheer boredom of some of very dry political science classes. I shared some of my scribbles with him. He looked up after reading a few lines and suggested that I put my poetry to music. That very next week, I made a trip to a small music store and bought my

first guitar. An acoustic Applause by Ovation.

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Following my brother’s comment, I actually did try some guitar lessons. I made it through three. From there I taught myself to play with the help of a stack of Mel Bay Guitar books lent to me by none other than the original nay sayer, brother Bob. Armed with a new guitar and a few chords, I began writing songs. Actually, a lot of Songs.

While on a college break, I ran into my best friend from high school, “DW,” and I played him a few of my newly composed “greatest hits.” He said that he liked the music and would love to jam with me. The problem was he didn’t have or play an instrument! I told him I had an old beat-up bass guitar, but it was unplayable because the bridge was broken. He said, “No problem, man, I’m studying to be a dentist! That’s what we do. We fix bridges!” And he did. He was a quick study and was soon rocking the bass guitar to my original songs.

We graduated college. I wrote more songs, and “DW” kept perfecting his bass (and dentistry) skills. We eventually formed a band with a lead guitarist who could rip like Eddie Van Halen. With a drummer on board, all we needed was a name. I flipped open a page of a dictionary to the “L’s,” and there was a picture of a “Typical Lizard.” The name stuck. We played gigs anywhere they would have us.

Chicago bars, summer festivals, battle of the bands, restaurants, etc. We played together for three years until life got in the way, and we drifted apart.

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In the mid 90’s, I was done with the miserable Chicago winters and bought a one way ticket to the island of Maui. At night I played solo gigs at local bars and spent most of my days scuba diving., Eventually I started my own dive company. I dabbled in a few other entrepreneurial endeavors until 2017, when my wife and I bought one-way tickets to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The first thing I did was

purchase a brand new Ovation guitar and started writing new music.

After playing at a fiesta, a friend asked me to write a song about what I loved most about our town. He pondered out loud: “Is it the people, the mariachis, the caballeros, the restaurants?”

I wrote a song about tequila!

It is my first song in Spanish and it’s called “¡Salucita!” It incorporates a famous Mexican toast, and ultimately embraces all the things my friend mentioned. It is the celebration of what it is like to be here in this incredible colonial city, San Miguel de Allende.

After the song’s initial success, we created Pachi Productions and filmed the music video for “¡Salucita!”

More songs followed, and a second award-winning music video was made:

“Jealous Little Mind” featuring the traditional Mexican Chichimeca dancers. I continue to write and record new material, all the while jotting down new ideas for future music videos at my home studio.

¡Qué vida! What a life!
¡SALUCITA!

My website: pachihart.com

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