Dan's grandma gave...

... him his first guitar at around age 3.  It was plastic with nylon strings.  Didn't stay in tune but it was possible to play melody lines on one string at a time.  And it was light, which facilitated jumping around.  Then at age 5 or so he saw The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show....and after that -- for years -- he said only one thing: "That's what I'm saying!  Its the whole nine yards!"  Eventually around 1970 he bought Get Your Ya Ya's Out ...his first live performance followed a couple years later, just after he turned 13.  After that was a constant lather, rinse, repeat with GD, Allmans, Pink Floyd, New York Dolls, Cure, Rolling Stones, and many others.

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 Fast forward through a bunch of bands, a bunch of years, a few more words, some kryptonite, and an economics PhD...today his secret identity is a  consultant specializing in antitrust and intellectual property with a focus on the music industry.  But most people know him as a mild mannered guitar player and songwriter in Crooked Flower.