I was born in London, and moved to Adelaide when I was four months old; had my first memory at six months; fell in love with music soon after; moved to Brisbane and joined a choir at five; wanted to be Gene Simmons at six; picked up a guitar at nine; fell in love with pop music at ten (when I first heard take 40 on the radio!); saw my first gig at eleven (it was Redgum, and Elton John a few months later); got my first electric guitar and started high school at twelve; went to music school and saw Bon Jovi's slippery When Wet tour at thirteen; started playing bass and joined my first real band at fourteen; played first real gigs at fifteen in my high school band 'The Brown Hornets'; started playing double bass, joined an orchestra and was in every school musical at sixteen; had high school rock fantasy moment (we were GODS of that school social), fell in love, lost virginity, had heart broken and didn't get into uni all at seventeen; became a touring roadie at 18; went to music school again at 19; was unemployed, joined another band called Feeble's Junky playing bass and gigged my arse off then got a gig at B105 in Brisbane at twenty; worked radio and played music at twenty-one; toured, released a CD and worked more radio at twenty-two; worked radio, released another CD, played double bass in another band called 'Resin Dogs' for a few months until they hired someone better than me (Chris was a bass hero of mine for years, he's really good), and Feeble's broke up at twenty-three; bought a theremin, worked overnight shift at B105 six days a week and took a month to go to Czech Republic with my Dad, quit B105 and hooked up with SAFM Adelaide at twenty-four; sent a video over and got a gig at Channel [v] so I moved to Sydney and became an Australian Citizen and started the first of many years of three hours of live TV a day - five days a week at twenty-five; learned to Snowboard at twenty-six; learned to surf at twenty-seven; went to Canada snowboarding at twenty-eight; started doing 'Idol' and played double bass in a country band, "Cryin' Skies" and met my future wife at twenty-nine; started at Take 40, then went back to Canada to snowboard, break my hand and turn thirty (guess which of those I planned); went around the world with my little brother snowboarding in Japan, partying in London and watching the Lakers in LA at thirty-one; got a real blog, learned to play poker, joined the Bondi Longboard Club, bought my first two Takayama surfboards, went on my first real surfing safari, got to live my game-show host fantasy and get engaged at thirty-two; went to Las Vegas to eat great food, play black jack, dance in a lovely suit with my fiancée and shake the hand of my all-time idol Prince at thirty-three; started to learn to read and write Hebrew, ran a marathon, took responsibility for my own brain, began to DJ seriously, learned to Stand-Up Paddle surf, watched my beloved fluffy cat Toby get sick enough to have go to sleep forever and then took 80 friends on a trip around Israel that ended up with me marrying my very best friend at thirty-four; hosted the final season of "Australian Idol" solo, changed my first name to "Osher", helped out with the 7pm Project in Melbourne and the 2Day FM breakfast radio show in Sydney for a few weeks, packed up shop and moved to America to work on a never-before attempted national weekly live show from LA to Australia, "The Hot Hits Live from LA" at thirty-five; finished a project where I took a self-portrait every day of my life for a year, got back into trail running, learned how to process my own black and white and colour film at home, got started into cycling, had my first photography exhibition in Sydney, got hand-picked by Paula Abdul to host "Live To Dance" on CBS in the USA and wrote this at thirty-six.
Life is for living.
x Osher (Andrew) Günsberg,
Los Angeles California October 2010.
