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for young children. Yeah, we went down to Texas for a quick quick shot and then I'll leave again

next week we're like in Louisville and then the Midwest and then we got a pretty stiff schedule.

This is Dave Sabo. He goes by Snake. He's 55 years old and for the last three decades,

he's been playing guitar for the metal band Skid Row. Snake's had a wildlife.

We're doing over 100 shows a year. He still haven't found that. I do. Yeah. I'd be hard pressed to do it

if I wasn't. It would be it would be tough to get me out there. You know.

These days Snake has settled down a little. He's married with kids in a nice house on Long Island.

He's fit with tattooed arms and dirty blonde hair down to his shoulders. He suggests we meet at a

pretty little park in the town of Amityville. There's a swing set and a bunch of ducks waddling around.

But otherwise we've got the place to ourselves which is good because I want to ask Snake about a

trippy took to Moscow in 1989. Snake grew up in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and originally he thought

he was going to be a baseball player. It's just absolutely new that that's what I want to do. And then

up the street John's playing music and he's playing guitar and I'm like well I want to do that too.

So he would show me a couple chords here and there and then that just set me on the path.

John was his best friend a local kid with killer hair and rock star aspirations named John

Jovi. John was very very successful at that point and we were best friends. He was always like man you

put a great band together and I'll help you in any way I can.

On Jovi eventually got a big deal manager a guy named Doc McGee. John calls me up and says

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