Back2Basics: Reconnecting to the essence of YOU
Sep 19, 2026 · 47 min · 12 segments
### Learn More about David at: https://davidsolbachauthor.com/ ### SHOW NOTES 🎵 \[1:28] Music was the first thing in the world: got a clarinet in second grade 🌉 \[4:18] Arrived in San…
By the end of my freshman year, I was much more interested in history, philosophy, literature.
People over there seemed more interesting than people in the music department.
I spent the first eight years there in San Francisco writing this great novel that turned out to be just horrible.
And I was so glad it didn't get published because fortunately, half a century later, I was able to rewrite it.
That's a supreme song if you're into old rock and roll at all, Eric Clapton at all.
I had actually been, I'd been prepared to find in my family in some ways, because my mother's family was very open and inclusive.
And they give me an example of my childhood of more openness than my more Germanic media family had in our home.
Michael Haydash where rents were so cheap then that a young person like myself with a degree or any kind of interest in art could come to that town and you could just rent a place cheap and hang out and be, try to explore yourself, you know? And San Francisco is not that town today, I can tell you.
I stayed there, I didn't leave until about 10 years ago and it had become an entirely different universe.
I mean, I used to rent rooms to kids that had no money, maybe, or very little money, and no references.
By the end of my freshman year, I was much more interested in history, philosophy, literature.
People over there seemed more interesting than people in the music department.
I spent the first eight years there in San Francisco writing this great novel that turned out to be just horrible.
And I was so glad it didn't get published because fortunately, half a century later, I was able to rewrite it.
That's a supreme song if you're into old rock and roll at all, Eric Clapton at all.
I had actually been, I'd been prepared to find in my family in some ways, because my mother's family was very open and inclusive.
And they give me an example of my childhood of more openness than my more Germanic media family had in our home.
Michael Haydash where rents were so cheap then that a young person like myself with a degree or any kind of interest in art could come to that town and you could just rent a place cheap and hang out and be, try to explore yourself, you know? And San Francisco is not that town today, I can tell you.
I stayed there, I didn't leave until about 10 years ago and it had become an entirely different universe.
I mean, I used to rent rooms to kids that had no money, maybe, or very little money, and no references.
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