Dennis Taylor

I have the good fortune to have had a long career (over 50 years) in music...my goal since the age of 11. I dropped out of UN-L in my 2nd year, as I was already making a good income from playing in my rock band. I then pursued a career as a singer-songwriter, which peaked at age 20, when my childhood dream came true and I opened at Pershing Auditorium for Fleetwood Mac and Wishbone Ash, to an audience of 3,000 people. After that I continued to perform and record, both as a solo guitarist and in various rock and jazz bands, and I also was lucky to have a 2nd career teaching guitar, from 1973 until I retired from teaching and playing in bands in 2008. My last major project was composing and performing the soundtrack for "Stories of Home", a feature length documentary of a 5 year long Lincoln Arts Council project, which premiered at the Ross Theater in January of 2007. I performed my own new age/world fusion music at The Oven Restaurant in Lincoln, on the first Sunday of every month, for 25 years, from 1989-2013 and still perform occasionally for services at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln and at special events at Bodhi Imports. In 2015, my 1983 solo guitar album, "Dayspring" was remastered and reissued on cd for national and international release, by Grass-Tops Recording of Minneapolis. It has been a great gift to be able to express what I feel in my heart through music, and to have the music touch other people in a positive way.

My beautiful life partner, Rebecca is originally from Michigan and has an M.A. in Psychology. She is a psychic counsellor and gives Tarot card readings and counselling under the banner of Intuitive Insights and in the past has been a featured guest on KFRX morning radio, giving readings to call-in listeners. She is also the manager of Bodhi Imports, a Lincoln boutique and gives readings there on Friday afternoons. We are celebrating 20 years of being together this year.

I am also happy to announce that I will be providing live acoustic guitar music for a part of the evening at the Saturday night reception at the Crooked Creek Golf Club. I look forward to seeing you there.

Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Jimi Hendrix. A few days after Jimi's passing, Juana Sanchez persuaded Dr. Lauterbach to let us play Jimi's Woodstock version of the "Star Spangled Banner" over the intercom that morning, instead of the usual version. When the song came on and we tried to stand up for it in Mrs. Murphy's 1st period English class, she jumped up and made us all sit back down, refusing to let us stand for this "abomination". Apparently, (as we soon learned) Mrs. Murphy was a very "patriotic" immigrant from Latvia, and was totally appalled by this "noise" she heard coming from the speaker. When it was over, she proceeded to give us a very impassioned lecture on the Meaning of Patriotism.
I guess she couldn't dig Jimi's vibe.