The farm played an important role his early life. " I loved that place", says Sadler. "As kids my friends and I played endless make-believe games there, improvising wild elaborate stories and playing all the roles ourselves. We would take ideas and characters from TV shows or movies and spin them into dramas of our own that would go on all day or until my mom called us in for supper. We'd race around the barn with our BB guns fighting Nazis like Vic Morrow in Combat one day, then turn the chicken coop into the USS Enterprise and boldly go where no kids had gone before the next. There were no limits whatsoever. We ran on pure kid energy and imagination".

At about the age of eight, Bill discovered his second great love, music. His dad, who played the guitar, gave him a ukulele and the two them performed duets together at any and all family gatherings. The uke gave way to the banjo which in turn gave way to the mandolin, which finally brought Bill to the guitar which he still plays and which nearly launched him on a different career path altogether. "I was never a great player but I loved to perform. I listened to folks like Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Woody Guthrie and tried to sound like them. I'm sure I wasn't very good but what I lacked in musical chops, I made up for in volume and enthusiasm!" (more)