Haig Papasian

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Although his real name is Gary Travis, he wanted a name that wasn’t so ‘white bread’ so he went with Haig Papasian. . No white bread there.   Born in the early 1950s, he picked up the guitar in the early 1960s.  Played a $25.00 department store guitar until his fingers bled. In late 1965 he had his first ‘good’ guitar. A Guild, single cut-away, slim line, hollow body with a Florentine cut. (Still has it.) Studied guitar for 5 years.  During this time he played in a number of local rock bands. His first choice in life was to go college for music theory, rejected that concept knowing that had he gone to music college, chances are he would end up teaching music.   Studied communication, ended up in the TV business, but always kept a guitar near-by, may not have always played it, but it was never far away.   There were a few musically dry years, but once in the blood, music never dies. Lately he is back to writing music and performing, feels comfortable with writing melodic ballads, but holds that genre at arms length, in search of what he calls, the true ‘rocker’. The quest will continue as rock will always be new and young, and when you hear that ‘rocker of a song’ you’ll know it.

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