I started playing the guitar when I was 11 after being given am old guitar by a neighbor, Jimmy who was in a band of his own. My mom later bought me my first new guitar the next Christmas and I was determined to learn everything I could. From Jackson 5, Temptations and Smokey Robinson, Minnie Ripperton, Jimmy Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Peter Tosh, B.B. King, Howlin; Wolf, Robert Johnson and the list goes on and on.. I learned from them all and in the process developed my own guitar style. I have, over the years, played in a Blues Band, a Jazz Band, a few Rock bands and, most recently, the Reggae Band "Gato's Gullah Gumbo, which was co-founded with my younger brother Donald "Dpontoes" Hall.