Country Music Artist - Terry Petersen
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Terry Petersen Well here goes. It all started for me back in 1962. I was ten year's old, now you know my age. My mom bought me a cheap electric guitar, with an amp that was big enough to make noise. I made so much noise they made me go out in the hall way and shut the door. It didn’t hurt my feelings because I knew I was really just trying to figure it out. I wanted them to listen to me, but I realized the only way that was going to happen was to learn how to play at least something that wouldn’t make the paint peel off the walls. They say you always learn by mistakes, and boy did I make a lot of them. Then suddenly after about 6 month's went by, I started to hear them say, that sounds good. It was a great feeling as a young boy to have them listen to a lead guitar intro to a Beatle's song, and have them like it. My father played guitar in a blue grass band. He saw that I might just learn how to play. So my mom got a hold of my cousin who had a rock-n-roll band that played lead guitar. I started taking lessons for a half hour every Saturday. Soon I was picking it up and they stopped leaving the door shut on me so they wouldn’t hear the racket. They bought me a brand new Fender Jaguar guitar with a fender amp, which I still have to this day. I got this bright idea that I was ready to start a group. I talked to one of my grade school friends that played drums in the school band, the only problem he didn’t have any drums. So I went over to his house and he found some boxes to beat on. Soon his father saw that we were really into it. He bought him a set of Slingerland drum sets. As kids we didn’t care what kind they were as long as they made sound. Our next big break was finding a bass player. We found one in school, we really didn’t like him but he could play. Now we almost had a group, we were famous in our little world. We started playing school dances and sock hops. Suddenly we began to wonder how the heck where we going to play some of these songs that had keyboards. So we started looking around other schools, we found one. He had a Farfisa Keyboard and could play better than us, it became a competition after that to step up to the plate, and we did. I thought of a name which was kind of important, and called ourselves, The Telstars. We entered contests all around the middle of Illinois and found ourselves winning them. We all had microphones, which scared me to death. I never did sing, just played lead guitar. We began to get requests to play at a club which needed a warm up band before the main group came out. Since we all had short hair because of the school codes, that if you were in sports, no long hair. So we had the bright idea of buying long haired wigs. Skin heads were not an in thing back then. We opened for The Buckinghams, Cryin’ Shames, Archie Bell and The Drells, Three Dog Night, Classics 4, The Who, I could go on and on. As we got older into high school, about the second year, the band just kind of lost interest. We went our separate ways. I will never forget the times we lived in and the music that we were so fortunate to play and grow up on. I graduated in 1970, enlisted into The National Guard for six year's. I missed music, was a little bit older so I started playing country and top 40 songs. Playing out in bar's and honkytonks, some of them were great, some of them were dive's. 1975, I started my own record label and recording studio, I was married, farming with my dad, and driving my own semi's. Worked all day and played all night. 1979 came around and I started a group called "Backstreet". We entered an International Battle of the Bands. Out of 3,000 bands we came in third here in Nashville performing all originals at T.P.A.C. We won some money and received a free single. I thought to myself, hey this is fun why don't we go on the road, they said with what, our cars. My dad and I went to Chicago and bought our first tour bus, it needed a paint job so since I knew how to paint, it was finished. Had some great time's and met a lot of people, it lasted about 3 year's, some of the guy's decided it wasn’t for them so we disbanded. I moved to Nashville, sold my bus to buy a house and went into the body shop business. I've had much success and no regrets, except a few in life like we all do. “All’s Forgiven” will be released to all of you in the near future. Our new web-site will be up and running soon.
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