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    Bud keeps asking me what’s so important about Zakk Wylde and pretty much challenged me to write a biography on him so I will accept his challenge and write one and also I will write why he’s so important to me.

So I guess it starts here, when Zakk was 13 he started playing piano. He gave it up shortly afterwards because all he wanted to do was learn Elton John songs and Neal Young stuff. According to Wylde in his DVD, Boozed, Bruised, & Broken-Boned, he was playing football at the time and he wanted to be a linebacker but he wasn’t big enough (imagine that).  Wylde and his mom were at his coaches house one day and his mom noticed a guitar in the living room, and she asked if he plays and he said “no my son Leroy does” and then Leroy came out with a beer in his hand and a Harley Davidson hat on and just started jamin’. Later on, Leroy became Wylde’s guitar teacher.

Listen to the podcast of this story.      Education was always important to Erika Tinker.  Both of her parents were teachers. So was her grandmother. And brother, making for a family full of teachers.  That’s one of many reasons why Tinker is now our school’s counselor.    When she was in the 3rd grade, Tinker’s parents got a job teaching overseas in Liberia, West Africa.  Her family sold everything to go so her parents could teach there. She was the only American student in her class.