![]() ![]() In 1966, at 13 he played a few songs at the legendary folk music venue the Mooncusser Coffeehouse in Oak Bluffs. He started plucking strings on a ukulele when he was eight, switched to guitar at ten. I still get six or seven hundred dollars a year,” he said. “When it first hit TV I got checks for around $1,000 every quarter. He has received ever-dwindling residual checks every year since. He also rented his small sailboat to the production and was cast in the movie with a one-line speaking part, “Yeah, I got a paddle,” as the boat’s captain. Pfluger was hired to build sets for the movie “Jaws” in Edgartown. ![]() He also worked six years as the principal tax assessor in Edgartown He was the Gay Head harbor master and head of the highway department in his twenties, and he’s bull-raked quahogs for living. Pfluger worked as a carpenter, and house painter, mostly up-Island. He has worked as a carpenter and a painter, a writer, and tax assessor, but a common thread throughout most of his 60 years has been music. Pfluger has traveled on many different occupational roads. He has composed pieces for a new album that he plans to produce from his home studio when he finds the time. One of the pieces from the CD, “Horseman’s Pastorale” is included in a compilation of pieces by composers from around the world by Mel Bay Publications. In 2004, he released a CD of original compositions for solo 12- and 6-string guitar entitled “Half Moon Bay,” which he says is still selling pretty well. ![]() I got paid pretty well for that one song.” “After they settled down they seemed to enjoy it. ![]()
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