Defining Moments
★ At age 8, Chad Jeffers performed in front of 1500 girls who chased after him
★ The Wilkinsons (first music gig from producer)/ First Gig was in Freedom Hall
★ How Chad co-founded his band “Pinmonkey” (Randomly met other co-founder Michael Reynolds)
★ How Chad got his gig with Keith Urban
★ How Chad got his gig with Carrie Underwood
★ Rehearsing for the first time with Kenny Loggins
Places Music has Taken Chad All Around the World
★ Japan (Kumamoto)/Singapore/Australia
★ Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany (Sleeping in Saddam’s Palace) (2 USO tours--1 Jamie O'neal and another time with Granger Smith)
★ Landing on aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan
★ Almost every Award Show on TV
★ New Years Eve in New York’s Times Square
★ Clive Davis PreGrammy Party
★ All every TV morning and late night show
Having a “Can-Do” attitude
★ At 9, our guitarist in the Whiz Kids quit, he took up guitar
★ In High School band, the drum-line needed another snare drummer (kept playing Sax in concert season)
★ Pinmonkey needed an engineer to record the first album.
★ Songwriting when he got his record deal
★ Keith needed a slide guitarist, guitars plus ganjo and mandolin (heard about him from a demo of a song he wrote with Wayne Kirkpatrick)
★ Carrie needed a slide guitarist… but the gig needed the Pedal Steel
★ Carrie wanted him to play harmonica
★ Carrie wanted him to play Saxophone
I Always have “Guides” or Mentors
★ His Late Father-- Helping him understand the importance of the history of music and the legends
★ Local Guitar teacher, Rick Hicks
★ Doug Sizemore (Reba McEntire’s Band Leader/Keyboardist) --helping with landing his first gig)
★ Jimmy Olander (Diamond Rio Guitarist) Being his mentor throughout his career
★ Tommy White (Grand Ole Opry Pedal Steel virtuoso)
