Twenty-year GAL member Chris Brandt made his first electric guitar in eighth grade. By eleventh grade he was working six days a week as a repair man at Sherman Clay Music in Portland. Many years later, he owned and worked at the long-standing Portland guitar shop, The 12th Fret. He retired in 2016, and he now lives in the country with his wife Carol and Smokey, his cat.
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