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I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I had my first electric, a Silvertone with the amp built into the case, and I won first prize.

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Tommy Shaw
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 11
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Montgomery
Alabama
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