Before Brad Teare was a professional illustrator, before he was an abstract artist, and before he became the revered Western landscape painter he is today, he was the drummer in a rock band that had one particular revelatory night. Gigging in and around Oklahoma and Kansas with a lot of original music in their repertoire, the band, Frostfire, was playing one of its own songs in a rowdy, rough, and noisy bar. As their song continued, the noisy patrons grew less so, paying more attention to the band. When the song ended, the house erupted in applause. While most of
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