Peter’s fondness for performing and love of music came at an early age, but also at a price…and that price was $20.  For that was the price he paid to a crack head looking to unload a stolen Fender Strat so he could score another rock.  His next purchase was a copy of Roy Clark’s Big Note Songbook. You know, the one that came with the stickers that you place on the neck of the guitar to learn chords. He struggled at first, but with time, he, like Rick Emmett, Triumph(ed).  He gorged himself on a feast of rock with the likes of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Rush, and The Osmond’s. Yes! The OSMOND'S!  Hey, have you ever listened to the Crazy Horses album?  It ROCKS!  Oh, and he has a not so secret obsession for Elvis. Well, I really shouldn’t use obsession but he does own a jumpsuit and fake sideburns.

He answered an ad in the local paper for a group of young go-getters searching for a dynamic young guitar player.  Pete was the man for the job.  After a year or so of rehearsals, the band was set to hit the road.

His accomplishments brought him to a crossroads and he had to make a decision.  Go on the road and leave his lucrative career in the hardware industry or stay and miss out on his one true chance at happiness.  Hell, Why not both!

It was while performing at the Florida Rock Festival as the opening act for such hard rock bands as Rinker and Tarmac, that Pete was forever cemented in the rock-n-roll lifestyle.  “This was what I wanted to do,” stated Pete.  The road was everything he’d hoped it would be and more…Parties, Celebrities, Beautiful Women & Livestock.  

One particular memory that he’s quite found of is when he was up all night with Freddie King.  He tells tale that poker was his thing.  That booze and ladies, kept him right and he says that they made it to a peep show that night.  He also said that Bobby Rondinelli once tried to eat him.  Evidently, Bobby in a blinding drunken haze, mistook him for a Slim Jim.  He even claims to have been in a fight with the Robinson Brothers from the Black Crowes.  But, hell, who hasn’t!  And then there was time that Etta James cut him with a broken beer bottle in a drunken bar fight.  It seems that Pete was not receptive to her sexual advances… ask him to show the scar.  He wears it like a badge of honor.  Ah, youth.

But soon he grew tired of the rock-n-roll lifestyle and life on the road.  The parties, the booze, the women, the kinky sex, blah, blah, blah…so he came home.  He put his music career on hold for a time and settled down.  But it wasn’t long after, he got that craving to perform again.  It was at an AA meeting with fellow truckers Ken Worth and Mack Trucks that the wheels of the OVERSIZED LOAD were set in motion. And as they say, the rest is history.