Nobody tells you what to do when you’re hauling a huge road roller on a flatbed truck in the mountains and the gas tank is nearly on empty. You have to figure it out. Nobody prepared me to survive in a foreign country with only a few coins in my pocket because I gave my folding money to two girls who ran out of money. I had to figure it out. Nobody told me how to teach a band full of teen-agers. I had to figure out how to write music for all their instruments that would sound good and be fun as well as educational. I had to figure it out. Nobody told me how to keep living with no source of income for my wife and four kids and myself. I had to figure it out. That’s what the book is about.
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Richard Young grew up in a small town in Oregon State and paid for his degree in music from the University of Oregon by working at a gravel pit in the summers and with help from his parents, a small scholarship from the Musicians’ Union, and a National Defense Loan. He and his wife have four kids. Put On Your Thinking Cap is his debut book.