Palisade Records founder Gary Schutt has been a struggling musician his whole life. The son of a professional Catskill NY area drummer, Gary started his musical journey on drums, then quickly picking up guitar, bass and piano. Saving his money for the first portable 4-track cassette recorder in 1985, Gary started to write and demo his own music in his parents basement. He had many albums worth of original material by the time he went off to Berklee College of Music in 1986.

While at ...