Originally Posted by stickyfingerz

Brad is a great guy met him recently, though him and I have a lot of mutal friends, and grew up in the same general area and in the same circles. He was in WV but just south of Pittsburgh and used to play at wheelingjamboree.org which our lead guitarist for the band I moved to Nashville with originally's family had a big part in, and his Brother owned a music store where Brad took lessons, and he also built his first blue Paisley guitar with one of his custom b benders in it. So I've been lucky enough to see old vhs tapes of Brad playing when he was very young at the Wheeling Jamboree. Neat stuff. Brad did very well for himself for sure.