Gabriel Gustafson was born in Bristol, CT., 4/30/1969, is married and fighting for my wife's freedom everyday. He first heard the Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" when he was 7 years old. A musical awakening. Gabriel discovered where his dad was storing his acoustic guitar a year later. Don Gustafson had received the guitar for Christmas a couple of years before Gabriel was born, and had taken the time to learn a few chords, but didn't pursue it.

 

At 18, Gabriel was 'picking" around Providence RI when he chanced to get a little jam going with a new friend, Marty from NJ.. "He had this 'Andy Summer' type of style down pretty good.. y'know, the delay-layering type of self accompaniment... i loved it... but 2 guitarists wasn't going to work out... so i knew a guy in the south dorm who had a barely working Gibson eb-3, somebody did bad things to it in the name of customization years before, and the dude needed cash quick, so i gave him $50 and that's where it really started for me." one of his coworkers in the army reserve was a carting engineer (garbage man) who stumbled across what looked like an accordion case,... but was actually a "kalamazoo bass 30".. it was just what Gabriel needed to get the bass guitar off the ground. " that amp,.. boy do I regret ever letting that go... I loved that thing, and I had no idea how hard it was going to end up being to find another one!!"