Grant
Peeples
"One
day,
around
1972,
Hugh
Roche
rode
over
to
my
house
on
his
Bultaco
motorcycle
with
a
guitar
strapped
to
the
back
fender
and
played
“Desolation
Row”
and
“Just
Like
a
Woman”
and
“Girl
of
the
North
Country”
and
I
was
forever
and
irrevocably
changed.
After
that,
everything
was
different,
especially
me.
That
whole
sensible
cosmology
I
had
embraced
so
naturally
was
transformed
into
a
metaphoric
island
where
I
stood
with
a
thousand
roads
before
me,
forking
into
infinite
space,
challenging
the
grasp
of
my
newly
hatched
imagination.
It
wasn’t
too
long
after
that
I
picked
up a
guitar
and
started
writing
my
own
songs.
They
weren’t
very
good
but
it
didn’t
matter
cause
nobody
really
heard
them
except
for
me.
All
around
me
people
I
knew
were
joining
bands,
painstakingly
learning
guitar
riffs,
bass
lines
and
the
popular
hits,
playing
out
and
doing
that
scene,
but
I
wasn’t
pulled
to
that.
All
I
cared
about
were
the
songs.
I
studied
other
peoples’
songs
like
Torah,
but
didn’t
really
learn
any
to
such
a
degree
as I
could
play
them
start
to
finish.
As
soon
as I
heard
a
song
I
liked,
I
took
it
apart,
just
like
some
dope
kid
who
gets
a
new
bike
for
his
birthday
and
starts
unbolting
and
unscrewing
it
before
he
ever
takes
it
for
a
ride."
Grant
Peeples
has
been
a
nightclub
owner,
vagabond,
world
traveler,
entertainer
and
above
all
a
songwriter.
He
continues
to
create
music
from
his
unique
set
of
perspectives
and
connects
with
people
on a
profound
level.
