Danny’s songs: Danny Hamilton and music as a means of survival
Danny Hamilton, who opens up for the Marshall Tucker Band at Brixton Thursday night and plays with his band, the Mudslingers, at Saint Rocke Monday night. On May 2, 1991, two eighth grade boys embarked on a small adventure. They had decided to bicycle from their homes in Torrance to a shop on Pacific Coast Highway called the Psychic Eye. They were hoping to find a fortune teller. Fate intervened. A truck bore down full steam on one of the boys, who swerved in front of the vehicle in an attempt to get out of its path. The truck driver cut his wheels sharply, and crashed directly into the other boy. Danny Hamilton broke both his legs, one of his arms, and cracked the front of his skull. His spleen was ruptured, his ribs broken, and his internal organs generally shaken up. “I broke a lot of stuff,” Hamilton said. “I was pretty broken.” Hamilton managed to avoid critical injuries. But he spent nearly a month in a hospital, and doctors thought he might never walk again. When he finally went home, he made a couple discoveries. First, teenage boys don’t generally care for kids in wheelchairs. “I mean, I actually went back to school for a couple of events…and I kind of realized at that…
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