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A paint store clerk gig David Jasik took in 1983 was only supposed to provide enough cash to cover his true passion: playing music.

A bass player, singer and occasional drummer, Jasik was part of a Sarasota-based Christian music band. The group embarked on several “Holiday Inn” tours, where they jammed for small crowds everywhere from Pennsylvania to Georgia. The band, Shere Khan, named after a fictional tiger in the Jungle Book stories by Rudyard Kipling, even recorded an album.

But by the late 1980s Jasik sought refuge from a touring musician's life. “I couldn't live on the road any longer,” he says. “I had to come back home.”