![]() Zack: I’m not sure I know when I became a musician, but a distinct moment in time that reified “musical awareness” for me was a situation at the (Traverse City) “Boardman Building”, where I saw a couple climbing four steps to ingress the Building. By 5th grade I had a little band (guitar, plastic organ, maracas) and we played a four-chord instrumental I’d written, in front of the class. I tried some other schools and teachers, and even learned to read music (sort of), but found I did better figuring songs out on my own. I thought he might be angry, but he seemed surprised and kind of impressed. When the teacher came back I was playing stuff I had worked out on my own-probably “Day Tripper” or something like that. One day the teacher left the room while I was playing some boring song from the old Mel Bay instruction book everyone used. ![]() I stated taking guitar lessons at the accordion school. After I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, I wanted to play guitar. ![]() There was an accordion school in Dearborn that had an aggressive recruitment program. Glen Arbor Sun: When and how did you know that you were a musician?ĭoug: I started taking accordion lessons when I was in third grade. You’ll catch yourself nodding and singing along if you join them on the deck at Boonedock’s in Glen Arbor. Together they bring a special kind of kinetic energy to perform rare but recognizable songs. In this installment of our series profiling local musicians, we interview the duo Uncle Z (Doug Zernow and Zack Light). ![]()
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