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1992 L.A. Riots (Rodney King) I was there!

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  I was attending The University of Western Ontario in London when I received a fairly substantial legal win. And as usual I did the reckless thing and dropped out suddenly for some fun. My long time close friend Director Tibor Tackacs invited me to be a guest in Los Angeles for a bit. I couldn’t say no. I should have stayed in University. The University of Western Ontario was my THIRD university after Ryerson University and the University of Toronto. It wasn’t until 2000 that I was diagnosed and treated for ADHD (inattentive type).  The tyranny of the shoulds.  I SHOULD have stayed in the field of Systems Analysis and Electronic Data Processing after being Military Immersion trained by Honeywell Corporation in 1982. If I stayed in that field I would be worth a fortune today. C’est la vie. What happened is I won  CASBY award for most promising male recording artist. My ambitions inflated, I chose to focus on music. So Director Tibor Takacs invited me to L.A. His hous...